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Christian Rudolf Hamann
Berlin, psychology, evolution

Gaza peace based on principles

After the UNO has shielded Arabs from any accountability for their revanchist resistance against the Jewish homeland by wars and terrorism since 1948,1) it is time for a final settlement. The following proposal is based on principles and values. (Further explanation can be found here: https://www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com/en/blog/gaza-peace-based-principles-extended-version)

  1. The six Arab countries that participated in the 1948 attack on Israel continue to bear responsibility2) for the resulting refugee problem. They can decide who is willing to take in how many homeless Gaza residents, and who is willing to pay how much for their integration and the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.
  2. If a contingent requires temporary accommodation, this must be provided outside the Gaza Strip, preferably in the Sinai Peninsula.
  3. The six states mentioned above, plus Qatar—which participated by financing Hamas and hosting its leaders—should demand that the terrorists immediately surrender, hand over their weapons, and go into exile. The latter option is only valid if all hostages are released in return.
  4. If the terrorists refuse, all civilians must leave the Gaza Strip. Those who remain declare themselves Hamas fighters.
  5. After the civilians leave, water, electricity, and all other utilities will be cut off. Then, as Donald Trump had announced, “all hell will break out if hostages don’t return before Jan. 20.”
  6. Great Britain, which remains responsible for the creation of a — sustainable! — Jewish homeland,3) should be obligated to supply the necessary weapons. It should negotiate with the wealthy Arab states about participating in the financing of the armaments.
  7. Through the criminal brutality of its warfare, Hamas places itself outside of civilization. Therefore, the final eradication of the terrorist organization is an essential prerequisite for saving innocent lives in the future.
  8. Since the protection of human life is incompatible with urban warfare, ground fighting should be reduced to the unavoidable. Airstrikes, artillery shelling, and the disruption of supplies remain the appropriate measures.
  9. Reconstruction must involve as many Gazans as possible. Psychologically, this should be understood as emancipation, an act of regaining the self-responsibility that was taken away from them during decades of UNRWA administration.
  10. Children and their mothers will not be allowed to enter the Gaza Strip during reconstruction.
  11. Reconstruction must begin in Southwest/Rafah, with the main part of the Gaza Strip temporarily left as an XXXL no-man’s zone—to ensure Israel’s security in accordance with the right to self-defense guaranteed in Article 51 of the UN Charter.
  12. A short, hard blow like this against Hamas conforms to Machiavelli’s ever-applicable rule: necessary injuries must be inflicted in the shortest possible time and never in small steps.
  13. The reconstruction process represents the other side of the same coin. – The application of the reward must be carried out piecemeal over a long period of time. This means that after the Rafah region, the southwestern parts of the Khan Yunis region will be next.
  14. For a sustainable solution, the population center should be relocated from the former Gaza City to Rafah and Khan Yunis. A border area in the northeastern Gaza Strip could be annexed by Israel for security reasons and to shorten the borders pending a final Middle East settlement.
  15. The right to resettlement should follow a points system. Qualifications and performance in reconstruction should earn points, as should participation in deradicalization programs and other forms of commitment to harmonious Arab-Jewish neighborliness in accordance with the preamble to the UN Charter.
  16. The UN must be reformed. A democratically elected Council for Charter principles should be established as an independent body to monitor the correct application of principles in UN resolutions. The need is obvious.4)
  17. UNRWA, in particular, must be fundamentally reformed. Its objective must be redefined as the development of individual freedom, in accordance with the preamble to the UN Charter.
  18. The autocratic, human rights-violating, and terrorism-promoting Palestinian Authority has failed to represent the Palestinian people in accordance with the principles of civilization and the UN Charter. The UN itself should organize democratic elections there and later in the Gaza Strip. To further modernize the democratic process, it seems worthwhile to examine the candidate selection process in supposedly autocratic China.
  19. The long-delayed issue of a definitive border between Samaria/Judea (West Bank) and Israel will be resolved through serious negotiations between mature democratic entities.
  20. The legal treatment of active terrorists requires profound reform.5)

Internal links

  1. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-uns-guilt-for-terrorism/ – Section Toxic resolutions
  2. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-palestinian-extremists-can-refuse-any-serious-negotiations/
  3. https://www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com/en/blog/responsibility-middle-east-conflict-lies-great-britain
  4. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-uns-guilt-for-terrorism/ – Section The breaking of own Charter principles
  5. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/combating-terrorism-sustainably/
About the Author
Christian Rudolf Hamann was born in October 1949 in Berlin/ Germany. After having finished school in 1968, he studied Geography, Biology and Politics in Hannover and Mainz till 1973 and then worked as a secondary school teacher until his retirement. Since 2013, he lives alternately in Uruguay and Germany. Throughout his life, he has continued to study independently, especially in the fields of history, politics including sociology, economics and psychology. His credo is that democracy is not a finished model, but a living principle that must be improved in a historically never-ending process and strengthened against the grip of uncontrolled power - namely that of money. History presents itself as evolution (as a composite of biological, technical and socio-organisational evolution), while politics represents its current management. Therefore, especially socio-organisational evolution can only be steered back into stable channels and kept there permanently if political management respects the eternally valid rules of evolution. The simplest and most effective way for the necessary course correction is to detect the increasing violations of these principles.
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