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Originally Posted by Cappy
While Israel has supported a two-state solution, they have always maintained that Palestine needs to be de-militarized/weaponized.
Obviously, we can see why they would want that; however, given the encroachments into Palestinian land, I can see why Palestine would balk at that caveat as well.
Perhaps a DMZ would alleviate some concerns. Or maybe an international force in Palestine (paid for by Israel)?
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Interesting, but who's going to run that international force? The UN? The Israeli's will balk at that as they feel that the UN has assaulted them, the UNWRA funds Hamas and works with them. NATO? Well the Palestinians won't like that, That's Christians at the gate for them. How about the Muslim States? Well Israel will certainly not allow that, and the Muslim States won't do it because they don't like Palestine as much as the Israeilis.
And what are the rules of force. Do they pulverize Gaza for example when Hamas launches a rocket attack? Do they pulverize Israel for attacking Gaza after some member of Hamas or whatever slips through and detonates a bomb on a bus?
Does this force setup road blocks and inspection and port inspection ports to prevent weapons from flowing into Gaza, because now you need a naval element and probably thousands of people to do it right.
Frankly a lightly armed traditional "Peace Keeping" force with the cute Blue Berets is just a hostage or human shield situation waiting to happen,it has no teeth, and honestly the UN sucks at it.
Are we talking Peace Enforcement? A heavily armed Mechanized Infantry brigade with backing artillery, and air assets and a mandate to enforce peace no matter what?