around $55 billion. The biggest concern for regional stability is the negative economic impact on Egypt of loss of business through the Suez. The radical elements in Egypt would likely gain power or at the very least cause great instability in Egypt. That's not good for anybody in the region.
Your thoughts about creating a "water barrier" to fight against the tunnels is an excellent point to think about.
As things move forward I'm left with many questions as to what a "reconstruction" even means or entails, who pays for it, who accomplishes it etc. and still against a backdrop of an unsettled "statehood" issue. In other words are we just building back to a "pre-Hamas" condition? Won't all of the upheaval still be just underneath if the statehood status isn't resolved? One party swears it will never allow such a thing. So are we just coming back to this repression/violence over and over as we have been for decades?
So in the end I'm left with no answers and just a feeling of pessimism that what has been will continue until eventual absorption/annexation or whatever it will be described as. Only one thing seems certain and that is no matter which way this all goes it will not be peaceful.
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