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President Trump's "Crazy" Idea for Gaza
(Facebook) Natan Sharansky - Many people see "out of the box thinking" of Trump about changing the future of Gaza by resettling the Gazans, improving their living conditions, and rebuilding Gaza as something absolutely unrealistic and out of touch with reality of the Middle East. I think this "crazy" idea is much less crazy than the idea of the Oslo Accords - if we bring ruthless dictator Arafat from Tunis to Ramallah and give him enough land, money, and weapons, he will defeat Hamas and live with us in peace and security (in the words of our prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres). Or the idea of the disengagement - we will leave Gaza, build a fence between us, and with one shot from their side, we will destroy them, and the world will be fully on our side (I quote Prime Minister Ariel Sharon from our conversations). The writer is a former political prisoner in the Soviet Union, former minister in Israeli governments, and former Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel.