Israel to benefit from Border mess between Aza and Egypt.
Many commentators have been trying to figure out who is benefiting from the border chaos in Rafah along the Egyptian border. Some things seem to be clear from the complete anarchy along that border. Its become abundantly clear that there are no real cultural ethnic or religious differences between Arabs on the Palestinian side of the border or Arabs on the Egyptian side of the border. They all speak the same language celebrate the same holidays and are completely one ethnic group. The artificial separation by border fence has been done away with by the Hamas as instinct dictates there should not be any separation at all. The Egyptian government is having difficulty reigning in the Arabs of Aza for good reason. The Berlin wall was an evil and completely artificial separation that was eventually toppled. Israel has also built a wall that has concerned many but there at least there are mainly two separate ethnic groups on either side of the wall. Why then a wall to begin with? Different leadership groups hope to gain political leverage when being in control of separate artificial groups. The Arabs on the Aza part of the border are Hamas Palestinians and in the West bank are Fatah Palestinians and in Israel Israeli Palestinians. In fact they are all Arabs with the exact same language and culture. In Fact now there are even two separate Palestinian factions that of the Hamas and of Fatah that are extreme rivals if not enemies. These both could become Palestinian states of some viability. They will be artificial states much like Alabama trying to cede from the United States. Artificial political entities do not survive and rarely prosper.
Another Interesting item to emerge from the chaos is the buying power of the previously thought completely impoverished inhabitants of the Gaza Strip. This buying power and need for goods seems stronger than any other political consideration. Former Prime Minister and Finance minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the prestigious Herzilyah conference that economic necessity and a free market economy may be the only way to deal with long term Israeli Arab animosity.
Israel can seemingly benefit from the current situation if it completely disconnects itself from any connection to the strip. That would make Egyptian Arabs responsible for Gaza Arabs which is the way is supposed to be anyway.
