Letter
Get on with it!
Another good article by Sachs and Fares.
It is, as I write, 769 days since the deadly Hamas assault, and 41 days since the second “ceasefire” (major reduction in mass murder of non-combatants). This is Donald’s announced plan. I select points 7 and 15. Re 7, UNRWA says aid is still a third of that required. The plan doesn’t envisage green and red zones. The immediate deployment of an International stabilisation force (ISF), even though the need was foreseeable months ago, hasn’t happened. So there is the plan but there needs to be, urgently, an action timetable.
Indonesia is training and readying 20,000 troops and Jordan’s King Abdullah, a key figure, has just visited Indonesia. Other nations must contribute now. Civil expertise in reconstruction is needed alongside military. Education and health aid too. Regardless of the deaths inflicted by and on both sides, it is time sanity prevailed, supported by the ISF. Once the ISF is in place, as well as the other human resources and money, attention then needs to broaden to include the issues in Northeast Palestine (the West Bank).
— Geoff Taylor from Borlu (Perth)