I don't think they are going to make Gaza uninhabitable. They are just trying to raize the infrastructure. To be honest, this is what I expected when I called it a Bronze Age War. I suspect the solution will be a bit Bronze Age-ish as well.
Israel has a ton of Arab Israelis living in it, and what will probably happen is that the Israeli left might try to convert them into a more reliable voting block. While the Israeli right will try and create some kind of containment state, whether or not segregation takes place. There won't be full integration, but the Left might ask for it.
Israel won't be able to displace enough Arabs in the region to do anything about it, but I would suspect they would create a kind of occupation government for the region that would demoralize the Pan-Arabist & Islamist fighters to leave, and would eventually adequately subjugate the region over the next 10 years. Enough economic prosperity, peace, and political freedom might be present that they are simply going to try and stay out of the fight in what will become vassalized land.
Think about how the US and China controls debt to subjugate governments. The US goes mostly through financial products, but China builds infrastructure off of loans. As bad as it is now, like many conquests, if the conquerors are competent enough, the conquered peoples are able to benefit from the empire that conquered them. If you were a Gaul and conquered by Romans, 1/3 of everyone you loved will have been killed in the Cesarian genocide afterwards; but living in Romanic Gaul comes with roads, farms, economic prosperity, wealth, and knowledge. Israel could do the same thing.
Sometimes surviving the brutal conquest is better than resisting it. We see this with Rome, Assyria, and the Mongols. Sometimes, you should resist to the death or flee: Mayans, Khmer Rouge, ISIS. But being conquered isn't the end of your civilization.
I don't think they are going to make Gaza uninhabitable. They are just trying to raize the infrastructure. To be honest, this is what I expected when I called it a Bronze Age War. I suspect the solution will be a bit Bronze Age-ish as well.
Israel has a ton of Arab Israelis living in it, and what will probably happen is that the Israeli left might try to convert them into a more reliable voting block. While the Israeli right will try and create some kind of containment state, whether or not segregation takes place. There won't be full integration, but the Left might ask for it.
Israel won't be able to displace enough Arabs in the region to do anything about it, but I would suspect they would create a kind of occupation government for the region that would demoralize the Pan-Arabist & Islamist fighters to leave, and would eventually adequately subjugate the region over the next 10 years. Enough economic prosperity, peace, and political freedom might be present that they are simply going to try and stay out of the fight in what will become vassalized land.
Think about how the US and China controls debt to subjugate governments. The US goes mostly through financial products, but China builds infrastructure off of loans. As bad as it is now, like many conquests, if the conquerors are competent enough, the conquered peoples are able to benefit from the empire that conquered them. If you were a Gaul and conquered by Romans, 1/3 of everyone you loved will have been killed in the Cesarian genocide afterwards; but living in Romanic Gaul comes with roads, farms, economic prosperity, wealth, and knowledge. Israel could do the same thing.
Sometimes surviving the brutal conquest is better than resisting it. We see this with Rome, Assyria, and the Mongols. Sometimes, you should resist to the death or flee: Mayans, Khmer Rouge, ISIS. But being conquered isn't the end of your civilization.
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Ask the jews. They did it with Babylon.