Good morning ,
Hi all from the wintry wonderland of Maine, where the trees all look like
Christmas trees and the snow crunches underfoot.
My thoughts about the 2014 [Note: not the current situation but the one nearly 10 years ago] Gaza 'situation' prompted some feedback, some of it complimentary, some frustrated: "I'm not sure there's anything in what you wrote that could
assist either understanding or mitigation. There's limited usefulness in considering utilitarianism vs deontology. Likewise for apparent disproportionality based on respective casualty numbers. Likewise for game theory. Likewise for ancient Greek history."
And this person urges me to write
something that describes "What should Israel do? Imagine yourself in the shoes of Benjamin Netanyahu or Yoav Gallant and say exactly what you'd propose as an effective, reasonable and acceptable response to the horrendous events of October 7 and the ongoing holding if hostages."
As I said in the preface to my previous article, I am not a foreign affairs expert, so today I include an article from the New York Times's Thomas Friedman, who is a foreign affairs expert, and who suggests a strategy to 'settle' the situation - at least for
a while.
Read and see what you think. (If the link below doesn't work, I've attached the text of his article as a pdf).
