Half measures won’t work. What Gaza needs is a Marshall Plan

Imagine having to choose between death by starving or by drowning. That is the unspeakably desperate choice that some Gazans have been confronted with in their daily struggle to survive.

Most of us would not choose for one day to live the nightmare that Gazans have experienced for months now, with rudimentary medical care if they are lucky to have any at all, even as infectious disease spreads and as they struggle to survive amid the rubble of bombed out buildings or in open air settlements with tents and tarpaulins as their only shelter.

And with starvation looming, the people of Gaza are reduced to making a desperate scramble for the severely limited food aid that does get through, or to risk their lives trying to collect meals ready to eat (MREs) that the United States and other nations have dropped by air.