RATHER THAN DRIVE OUT businesses that employ PA residents - e.g., SodaStream - and rather than complain about other business that give them work in Israel - e.g., - Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing, fund start-ups in the PA zones and Gaza.
Israel's high tech industry is reaching out both to Arabs and haridim, both men and women.
But where will a skilled PA resident find work? Not in Occupied Israel (PA zones and Gaza). Israeli Arabs have a better chance to apply their knowledge in Israeli Arab communities such as Natzeret (Nazareth) as well as throughout the rest of Israel.
RATHER THAN WHINE about the poor Arabs in the PA and Gaza, especially the ones who HAD good jobs with SodaStream and Rami Levy markets, put your money where your mouth is and fund new businesses in the PA zone and Gaza.
Businesses other than those making weapons to use against Israelis - bear in mind that to a bomb, an Israeli liberal looks the same as the most right-wing zealot.
While Gaza might be able to survive on its own - it has the "Egypt connection" to help it (assuming Hamas and the Brotherhood cease attacking Egyptian police and civilians), but the PA zones are fairly well land-locked. Until there is a secure (for Israel) route between the PA zones and Jordan, the PA must look to Israel for jobs.
Unfortunately, between the liberal condemnation of Israeli firms doing business in Occupied Israel (e.g., "over the green line") and the PA leadership's ongoing encouragement of attacks by PA residents on Israelis when they are allowed entry, the prospect of improving their lot is shrinking daily.
That could change if the Israeli left - and left-wing dispora Jewry - would finance businesses in Occupied Israel.
The two obvious questions that must be answered:
Will Israel allow funds to be transferred from Israelis to the PA
Will the PA leadership allow the funds to be used to create non-lethal jobs; no weapons manufacturing.
Because I am who I am, I world suspect that the PA leadership would do as the leadership of other Muslim-dominated countries and claim that any benefits for the people came from within the PA leadership.
I suppose there are more questions to be asked, including who will account for any "Jewish" money funneled into Gaza and the PA zones. Euros already line the pockets of the leadership rather than filtering down to the working folks.
(When something is "filtered," more always goes in than comes out.)
OK, liberals in Israel and elsewhere: stop heating up the air with no visible results; find a way to fund PA-zone and Gaza small, people intensive businesses, be they "high tech" or low. If there are jobs for the residents of the zones and Gaza, there will be less reason for the residents to seek work in Israel.
At the same time, Israel needs to go back to its pioneer roots, when Jews did all the jobs, including stoop labor, cleaning of luls and refets (look up the Hebrew), as well as driving the cabs. Israelis - including leftists in their ivory towers - are as much to blame for the bombs and knifings as the PA/Gaza leadership.
Found and fund job-producing businesses in the zones and Gaza. When people have a decent income they are less likely to give it up for a promised 70 virgins.
