I can imagine several reasons that the japanese may have been able to recover from WWII without resentment towards the U.S. for bombing hiroshima & nagasaki and the subsequent military occupation
a) economic self-determination -- the 'shocking' to the west recovery of the japanese economy from the 40s to the 80s
b) persuasiveness of american soft power -- the most obvious manifestation of this to me now is japanese love of american work wear,
c) the japanese war ethos of individual sacrifice for the collective & loyalty & deocorum onto death (which is death culty, but nonetheless seems to me to preserve agency)
There may be other factors but I would assume these are the least that would have to be provided so that palestinians do not hate israel in the near or semi-distant future. From talking to various more informed people at various dinners, it seems that a) is particularly hard to provide bc of the geography of gaza & the west bank. Japan is the size of the eastern seaboard, and had a decimated but complete economy. Even for a country the size of Israel (80x the size of Gaza), most, if not all of their food is imported. Most likely, the economic recovery of Gaza would involve a large portion of the population becoming a high tech or education based work force . That doesn't seem impossible as many countries in the developed world seem to be totally dependent on global supply chains to feed their people. It does seem MUCH harder than post-war Japan though in that there doesn't seem to be a government to speak of, which might take on the task of economic development.
I can imagine several reasons that the japanese may have been able to recover from WWII without resentment towards the U.S. for bombing hiroshima & nagasaki and the subsequent military occupation
a) economic self-determination -- the 'shocking' to the west recovery of the japanese economy from the 40s to the 80s
b) persuasiveness of american soft power -- the most obvious manifestation of this to me now is japanese love of american work wear,
c) the japanese war ethos of individual sacrifice for the collective & loyalty & deocorum onto death (which is death culty, but nonetheless seems to me to preserve agency)
There may be other factors but I would assume these are the least that would have to be provided so that palestinians do not hate israel in the near or semi-distant future. From talking to various more informed people at various dinners, it seems that a) is particularly hard to provide bc of the geography of gaza & the west bank. Japan is the size of the eastern seaboard, and had a decimated but complete economy. Even for a country the size of Israel (80x the size of Gaza), most, if not all of their food is imported. Most likely, the economic recovery of Gaza would involve a large portion of the population becoming a high tech or education based work force . That doesn't seem impossible as many countries in the developed world seem to be totally dependent on global supply chains to feed their people. It does seem MUCH harder than post-war Japan though in that there doesn't seem to be a government to speak of, which might take on the task of economic development.