Many Eastern European countries, Russia and China, face severely declining populations. Following the example of 19^th and early 20^th century America, such countries could open their borders to Gaza residents to repopulate their countries.

In the aftermath of the war created by the 1948 partition of Britain’s Palestinian mandate, the 1949 Egyptian-Israeli peace created Gaza as a temporary home for displaced Palestinians. Seventy-five years later, the unsatisfactory quick fix that never worked very well now does not work at all. The people living in Israel and Gaza need a solution that reforms the current chaos into a livable resolution.

Robert (Bob) Purssell is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate, Bob worked in the defense and semiconductor industry first as an engineer and subsequently as an engineering manager. Currently retired, he writes novels and gives talks on military and historical events.

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