REBUILDING GAZA IS A BAD IDEA: END AMERICA'S STRADDLING THE FENCE MIDDLE-EAST POLICY NOW.

ICHEOKU says America must decide whose side to be on and abandon the ongoing attempt to play nice to the two parties who have been at each other's neck for thousands of years. It is either Israel is good or Palestine is good; but the two cannot be both good at the same time while still fighting for the same issue which remains unresolved till today and will not be resolved tomorrow nor will it be resolved the day after tomorrow. It is this cuddling that emboldens both parties as they are convinced that their respective position is right and thereby making it impossible for them to yield grounds towards reaching an amicable final settlement. Therefore America must courageously abandon its cuddling of both sides and take a firm stand like King Solomon and cast its lot with one of the parties. That way, the forsaken party will realize that the game is up and suck it up and move one. 

But as long as America continues to play the mister nice guy to both Israel and Palestine, that long will the dispute over Jerusalem remain unresolved and intractable. Now, America is thinking about rebuilding Gaza Strip which was destroyed through the instigation of Hamas, a terrorist organization which even America recognized as one. This is cuddling Hamas as a rebuilt Gaza Strip will only make them stronger and provide them with additional propaganda tool with which to maintain their stranglehold over the Gaza Strip. Hamas will have a strong talking point that they forced the Americans to rebuild their territory which they also forced Israel to destroy, hence a win, win situation. Hamas can only get stronger going forward with such a lofty win where they ate their cake and still had it.  

But imagine a Gaza Strip that is left as is, in the ruins which they found themselves courtesy of Hamas intransigency and the suffering in the Strip exacerbates to such an unbearably stratospheric level that the people of Gaza cannot take it any more and are forced to rebel against Hamas leadership, forcing them to vote Hamas out of office or at least quit supporting them, aware that tying their destiny to Hamas is not in good beneficial decision. The people of Gaza ought to be made to feel the heat to help wake up their conscientiousness to realize that Hamas is only brining them more harm than good and that as long as they stay the course, their fortunes can only dwindle but will never increase. Their case calls for the hard lesson of the carrot and the stick, squeeze them until they dump Hamas and then reward them abundantly. 

ICHEOKU says there is only one solution to the Jewish/Arab problem in the MiddleEast. It is to allow the stronger side to achieve victory over the weaker side, case closed. King Solomon did a similar thing with the two women and it turned out that his judgement was the wise decision as it solved the question which mother owns the child. America must ignore the pressure of the world bankrolled by the Arabs and adapt a King Solomon's attitude to the problem and let the rightful side win by declaring Jerusalem as Israel's or Palestine's. This is the only long term solution to the problem as two people cannot in actuality own the ancient city of Jerusalem and only a wrongful claimant would want the city to be divided just like the rogue mother in King Solomon's case. 

Israel and Palestine already have their separate territories called Israel and The West Bank and Gaza Strip. The only outstanding issue is the control of Jerusalem and the manner the control will be exacted. That is what all the hollering about a two States solution is and any attempt to divide Jerusalem will only compound the problem more. Jerusalem is not divisible in the real sense of it and Jerusalem cannot be functionally divided. America should take a firm stand and adopt this absolute position now or just let the matter lie as it has laid for many centuries. But it must not in the process of craving acceptance by both parties, worsen the situation any further. 

What is the use anyway of rebuilding Gaza Strip and also replenishing Israel's bombs with which they will sooner than later summarily destroy the same newly rebuilt Gaza once again. Appeasement diplomacy never works. It is a wishy washy, knee jerk, indecisiveness and it encourages obstinacy. In the alternative, a commitment should first be extracted from Hamas to be of good behavior and not to provoke another conflict that will lead to another destructive retaliation by Israel. A sort of an insurance policy to guarantee that the effort expended in rebuilding Gaza will not be in vain, otherwise as soon as they fire their rockets into Israel, those Israeli F-35 bombers will become airborne to deliver their payloads that will once again flatten down buildings and weaken foundations. 

Also, a hastened resolution of the enduring conflict should be explored first before the rebuilding of Gaza Strip to ensure that a newly rebuilt Gaza will equally endure. But hey, who is going to rebuild Syria, Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan or are those destructions not good enough to receive the same planned Gaza makeover treatment. Those fellas in those similarly destroyed countries will treasure the opportunity to have their own homes, buildings and other structures also restored to their glorious architectural statues-quo ante invasions. The America's politics of different treatment for different people need to stop as what is good for Palestinians is also good for Libyans, Iraqis, Afghanis and Syrians. Rebuild them all or don't rebuild any of them. Anyway, ICHEOKU is laser-focused on the conflict and will continue to revisit the issue as developments therein unfold. #Don'tRebuildGaza.