What happens after Hamas though? For there to be stability long term, and no new Hezbollah or other extremist group popping up, there has to be some sort of economic future for Gazans.
What is the future for the average Palestinian? None of their neighbours want to take any of them in, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon have all previous accepted them, all to disasterous results for the host countries. Further stable Middle Eastern countries like Saudia Arabia, UAE, Bahrain have ruled them out. They've rejected a one state solution, and even a two state solution where 95% of all land in the West Bank and all of Gaza would have been ceded back to them and Israel would have been required to evict almost half a million Jewish settlers from the West Bank.
I don't really think there was a more generous chance on the table than the last two state solution offer under the Sharon gov't, and Hamas sabotaged that one. After this Hamas attack on Israel I seriously doubt a future peace agreement will be anywhere near as generous. Same issue again in 20 years?
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