On November 3, I posted on open letter to “Americans,” which I titled “The Best Gaza Solution Money Can Buy.” I sent it, with cover letters, to US President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and to a few other people and entities that I thought should get it.
Now it is reported by many outlets, unchallenged as far as I can see, that the Gazan population has lost another twelve thousand. Killing more Gazans, however, should not be used to reduce the total that, in my solution, the US would pay to them, or what it would cost to house and take care of this tired, poor, huddled, freedom-yearning mass of newly-made Gazan expat millionaires in America. That would be morally reprehensible and utterly unjustified. It would green-light mass murder for profit, which, although the capitalist way of life, doesn’t fit with the actually humanitarian/holy goal of saving as many Gazan lives as possible. And saving those lives would save US, Israeli and the world’s souls.
So, accepting the base figure I proposed almost two months ago of US $2,366,259,000,000, if there are now 12,000 fewer Gazans, it would mean that each Gazan alive today would receive $1,005,097. If the Israelis kill every Gazan but one, then that one would get the whole two trillion, three hundred sixty-six billion, two hundred fifty-nine million dollars. Otherwise, the US and Israel would be incentivized to kill as many Gazans as they can to save a few bucks.
Because everyone is on the money standard, of course, if there are any really bad and greedy Gazans among the population of two million, three hundred fifty-four thousand, two hundred fifty-nine, these baddies could be incited to kill as many of their own compatriots as they can to get a bigger slice for themselves from the living Gazans’ US-baked cabbage pie. Such egregiously greedy Gazans — wouldn’t you know it — share the same goal of profiteering from death as the US and Israeli masters of war. So the whole world must watch who’s killing whom and do the math.
In any case, a million US dollars and a house in the Catskills, or Palm Beach, or some other American holy place, should satisfy even the baddest of the bad Gazans, and give them a real shot, relatively unpressured, at turning their lives around. It sure is better than being bombed into obliteration. But even a gazillion dollars might never satisfy the bigtime profiteers, the world’s Nongazans who build the bombs, tag the targets, hide behind the walls and the desks, and glory in it all. They will always be needing more gazillions to build more bombs, tag more targets, mint more medals. But at least there’ll be nobody left in Gaza to tag or bomb. They’ll all be as safe and happy as the rest of America’s millionaires.