::I think of the Vietnamese boat people, after the U.S. and Australia, for purely electoral reasons, smashed the shit out of that country, upwards of 7-800,000 thousands of many ethnicities fled the area. A senior Singapore based European diplomat told me the inside story of how Western aid groups competed to get big quotas, often because 'caring' was funded so lucratively. But, whatever, most got sanctuary in the West. The world has changed.  After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster I would have thought it obvious that Western nations extend a hand and offer emigration to, say 100,000 Japanese in the area: excellent levels of education, very quick to assimilate, and self-supporting, fine material for Canada, England, the U.S. Australia, Europe. Never even proposed. The Gazans are few. 100,000 selected by lottery, once spread over 10 countries, would make excellent immigrants. They had a tradition of higher education superior to Israel's in the mid-sixties, and their diaspora, which has become their imposed destiny, is as interesting as that which is the hallmark of that of the Jewish people. The remittances from such a small number would sustain those who are otherwise doomed to strangulation. But, like most obvious interim solutions, no politician will do what all were ready to do with the far more exotic Vietnamese and Hmong. Fuck'em.