Israeli occupation of Gaza would lead to ‘succession of terrorist attacks’: Niall Ferguson

Historian and author Professor Niall Ferguson says there is “no great appetite” for an Israeli occupation of Gaza and it is “difficult to imagine” it wouldn’t lead to a “succession of terrorist attacks and countermeasures”.

Israel withdrew its military forces from Gaza in 2005 and implemented a temporary blockade of Gaza, which became indefinite after the 2007 Hamas takeover.

“There’s no great appetite within the Israeli military for an occupation of Gaza because they have bitter memories of what that was like before,” Mr Ferguson told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan.

“But who has a better idea at this point? It’s a little bit difficult to imagine the dust settling and a new force emerging to take the place of Hamas that isn’t just as bad.

“After all, what’s the United Nations for if it’s not to send blue helmets into dangerous territories where the alternative is ongoing conflict?

“That seems, to me, to be the kind of thing that should be under much more serious discussion at the moment: internationalising Gaza.

“That seems the kind of endgame that would make much more sense to me than an Israeli occupation that would almost certainly just become a succession of terrorist attacks and countermeasures.”

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