Gaza: Mogadishu or Dubai? By Pepe Escobar, THE ROVING EYE, Asia Times, Jun 14, 2008
Sneh has a neat formula to sell his package: "Gaza now is like Mogadishu [capital of Sudan]. It can be Dubai [in the United Arab Emirates]. What you need is to uproot the terrorists and to enable democratic forces to act."
Take According to Sneh, "The problem of Gaza is that there are 1 million people there living in poverty and now without jobs and without hope. And if you want to uproot Hamas – something that Israel must do one day – the way to do it is not just by military option, which would break the military force of Hamas, but to enable the legitimate government of [Prime Minister Salam] Fayyad to restore its authority, and immediately after that to embark in an economic development plan to build, through private enterprise, 100,000 jobs in Gaza."
Ephraim Sneh … is a former deputy defense minister (1999-2001), a retired general and a highly influential Labor member of the Knesset.
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