Locking Up Hamas

THE UNITED STATES Secretary of State, Mr. Blinken, said it straight out: "Too many Palestinians have been killed in the war". As if he was really going out on a limb, making a bold, fresh, explanation and new awareness of global reality. If anybody ever stated the obvious, it is the U.S. Secretary of state, Mr. Blinken. No shit, Sherlock? Twelve tousand, mostly women and children, is too many? Really? Arguably, too many Palestinians had been killed when the first one was in this vicious onslaught of Israeli retribution. Presumably, the Israeli's have a pretty fair database of Hamas members, especially the ledership. Hell, why wouldn't they? They have atomic bombs, massive conventional fire power anda well trained army, a country beautifully landscaped,virtuallly manicured, greath prosperity,perhaps the world's finest intelligence gathering ability, and, last but not least, its hand in the pockets of the United States, public and private. Why not establish a program of paying Palestinians to identify, for the Israelis and the Americans, members of Hamas, especially high randking officers and leaders. Why not? This would accomplish severalvery desirable goals simultaneously. First, it would result in the severe damage or most likely complete destruction of Hamas, and, not le importantly, it would put some mney in the hands of Palestinians, spread a litle wealth around in the general population, which would help considerably in the inevitable United Ntions rebuilding of Gaza. Say, five undred American dollars for every apprehension and arrest of a Hamas member. Presumably, five hundred American dollars is a helluva lot of money to a Palestinian. It might even work for, say, one hundred dollars per arrest. Who knows how low the money could go before the Hamas market started drying up? Maybe Palestinians will be willing to sell Hamas cheaply.Surely Israel could afford to contribute substantially to the Hamas buy out program; unless I'm dreaming, the nation of Israel never really did offer any compensation to Palestine for the murderous taking of their land in 1948 in what is still called among the Palestinians as "the great catastrophe", for good reason. There is still not a satisfactory Palestinian state of existence, their own country. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that if more Americans, many more Americans, would become educated about the actual founding of the nation of Israel in 1948, the American people, including Joe Biden, would have a more balanced view of the Palestinian-Israeli "problem", a problem which has persisted for seventy five years because it was deliberately created seventy five years ago, and has never been solved and repaired. Americans, ever ignorant, like to say things like "oh hell those people have been fighting each other for thousands of years. Nobody can do anything about it". That's idiotic. Before 1948 Palestinians and Jews both inhabited what was then called "Palestine", relatively peacefully. The trouble began in 1948, when Israel attacked, fought, and conquered its way into existence. The conquered people suffered, and still suffer.