President Jimmy Carter: "How To Fix It": Ending this war in Gaza begins with recognizing Hamas

[joshcryer]

39. I don't think it's appropriate at all.

I don't think Israel should even react to the hundreds of daily rocket barrages. I think Israel need only wait it out. Israeli citizens will die. PTSD for children will go up (air raid sirens 15-20 times a day is difficult to ignore). It's a crappy sacrifice but then Palestinians might realize the millions being funneled into rockets isn't worth it and reject Hamas. It could take years though.

But that's never happening, Likud would never allow it, and Hamas would not stop the rockets. By stop the rockets I mean to arrest anyone funneling them in through the tunnels. Do regular inspections on the tunnels. Palestinians pay a fee to Hamas to operate tunnels. Use that fee to make sure weapons aren't being smuggled in. That's a start. Sure, some will get through, but at least Hamas could show a good faith effort to reduce the flow.

Likud needs the rockets to fly so that they can use it as a pretext to destroy the tunnels that are meant to avoid the blockaid.

I'm not placing all of the blame on Hamas, but it's damn nuts how they seem to get a pass on this because of Israel's excessive force.