President Donald Trump shocked the world during his Tuesday evening news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by saying what all the foreign policy “wisemen” know but are afraid to admit: The problem with Gaza is it’s full of Gazans.
Or more precisely, it is full of Gazans who have been raised from infancy to be terrorists who believe they are divinely ordained to murder, rape and torture Jews, Americans and anyone else whom their unelected leaders designate as enemies – and that includes any of their fellow Gazans who object to living the hellish life their leaders have constructed for them.
The low estimate of the number of Hamas terrorists under arms in Gaza is 55,000 men – the equivalent of 11 of Nazi SS Commander Oskar Dirlewanger’s savage brigade – ready to launch another campaign of rape and murder across Israel’s southern border.
With such savages at Israel’s doorstep there can be no permanent peace, not because Israel doesn’t want it, but because the Gazans have been raised from infancy to see terrorism against Israel, the United States and other perceived enemies as their life’s work.
Beyond the 55,000 or so likely armed terrorists there are about 2.1 million in the general population of Gaza. They are the wives, mothers, sisters, children, fathers and brothers of the active Hamas terrorist army.
As Mao Zedong said, “The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.” And so, the Hamas terrorists live among the Gazan population, hide their weapons and their victims among the mosques, hospitals, schools and other infrastructure serving the population of Gaza.
Those 2.1 million Gazans voted the Hamas terrorist organization into power, and it is kept in power through their active support – or charitably put – in some cases through their passivity in the face of terror.
And it is these 2.1 million Gazans who represent the greatest impediment to realizing President Trump’s plan to remake the Gaza Strip into something other than what it now is – a brutalized terrorist-spawning hellscape.
“The Palestinians, people like Chuck Schumer, would have already been resettled in far safer and more beautiful communities, with new and modern homes, in the region,” said the President according to a report in the New York Post. Egypt, Jordan and other counties of the Near East were quick to reject the idea of accepting Gazans displaced by Trump’s plan as refugees.
But would relocation and rebuilding work, even if other countries in the region accepted the Gazans?
When Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005 rather than put them to use feeding their population, Gazans looted dozens of greenhouses gifted to them by the Israelis, walking off with irrigation hoses, water pumps and plastic sheeting destroying those early efforts to reconstruct the Gaza Strip.
American Jewish donors had bought more than 3,000 greenhouses from Israeli settlers in Gaza for $14 million and transferred them to the Palestinian Authority. Former World Bank President James Wolfensohn, who brokered the deal, put up $500,000 of his own cash.
Palestinian police stood by helplessly as looters carted off materials from greenhouses in several settlements, and in some cases the police even joined the looters, witnesses said.
History shows that Gazans are disinterested in the values that might lead them to a peaceful life in coexistence with Israel. Other than terrorism Gazans have no discernable skills to support themselves or contribute to a host country’s economy. They would be 2.1 million eaters whose very presence would destabilize the host country – and the Egyptians and Jordanians know it.
The 20th Century saw a number of vast population displacements – the displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern and Central Europe after World War II, the displacement of ethnic Greeks and Armenians from Turkey after World War I, to name but two.
President Trump’s challenge in displacing the Gazans from Gaza to clear it of murders, rapists and terrorist, without the humanitarian suffering that attended those great migrations, will be the greatest impediment to his plan. And Hamas, like other totalitarian regimes, is unlikely to allow volunteers who might want a better, terrorism-free life, to take his offer and leave.
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