# Money for peace - proposal for peace in the Middle East **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 31, 2024, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-for-peace-proposal-for-peace-in-the-middle-east/999638 "2024-03-31T11:58:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 33
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-for-peace-proposal-for-peace-in-the-middle-east/999638/33 "2024-04-01T23:39:30Z")
…proposal for peace: the US stops funding the genocide in Gaza. Proposal for peace: Israel complies with the International Court of Justice directives that “has stated that Israel must take all necessary and effective measures to ensure, without delay, and in full cooperation with the United Nations, “the unhindered provision at scale by all concerned of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance” to Palestinians throughout the Gaza Strip.” Proposal for peace: instead of giving every single Israeli and Palestinian $5000, invest that money in rebuilding the Gazan healthcare system that has been obliterated over the last six months. Because an extra $5000 a year isn’t going to help much when there aren’t any hospitals to even get basic care. You can’t even start thinking about the “peace process” when hundreds of thousands of people on one side of that process will die in the next few months from famine. A process that treats both sides as “equals” when one side completely controls what goes into and comes out of the other, when one side restricts how much food goes in and out, controls the airspace, controls the borders. This wouldn’t give anyone an incentive to make peace. The Palestinians wouldn’t “restrain Hamas.” Israel would not “restrain their settlers and other extremists.” It wouldn’t have any chance of success. Do you know how hard it is for Palestinians to even access money now? > [@](#): > > On Sunday, Israel approved a [plan](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/21/israel-approves-plan-to-transfer-gaza-tax-funds-to-norway) to send taxes earmarked for Gaza to Norway instead of the Palestinian Authority ¶, which exercises limited self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. > > Since November, taxes that would ordinarily be sent to Gaza have been frozen by the Israeli government. > > … > > The system by which taxes and customs duties are collected by Israel on behalf of the PA and transferred to the authority on a monthly basis was agreed in a 1994 accord. > > Known as the Paris Protocol, the accord was meant to manage the economic relationship between Israel and the Palestinian territories it occupied until a final peace settlement was reached between the two states. > **[How Israel controls $188 million of Palestinian money every month](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/23/why-is-israel-sending-palestinian-taxes-to-norway)** > > Palestinian tax revenue destined for Gaza has been frozen by Israel since November – here’s what’s happening now. > [@](#): > > [Palestinian](https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine) banks could be cut off from the [Israeli](https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel) banking system starting next week following a decision by Israel’s finance minister to cease dealings between the two financial institutions, according to a report on Thursday by Israeli newspaper [Haaretz](https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/2024-03-28/ty-article/.premium/0000018e-8100-d49b-a3bf-f51f14170000?utm_source=App_Share&utm_medium=iOS_Native). > **[Israel may cut off Palestinian banks from global banking system next week](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-may-cut-off-palestinian-banks-global-banking-system-next-week)** > > The decision by Israel's finance minister to isolate PA banks would paralyse Palestinian economy Somebody mentioned the other day that there were literally only a handful of ATM’s working in Gaza. There is no money, no jobs, no work, no houses, no shelter, no food. The doctors in Gaza are almost all working for free right now. But both Israelis and Palestinians would get paid identical amounts. How does that make any sense, and how would that promote peace? > [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Then suppose (after the war ends) Are you imagining that everything goes back to normal? What does the “end of the war” look like to you? Because it looks like Palestinians either driven by Gaza, or kept in a large concentration camp in Rafah. Are you imagining anything different? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/money-for-peace-proposal-for-peace-in-the-middle-east/999638)._