One of the bigger questions we’ve been grappling with ever since the beginning of the Israeli counterassault in Gaza has been what the Strip would look like after Hamas is (hopefully) fully rooted out and destroyed. It’s a prickly question with no easy, obvious answers. Much of Gaza has been reduced to rubble and Hamas was the only recognized form of government that the Gazans had. None of their neighbors want to take them all in as refugees and even the Palestinian Authority has no interest in being put in charge of that mess. This weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to answer these questions by releasing a report titled, “Plan for the Day after Hamas.” To make a long story short, almost nobody seems to be satisfied with it, including the White House. (Jerusalem Post)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented the “Plan for the day after Hamas” to members of…
