What I'm Reading

By Rich Kozlovich

From the very beginning there was more than enough information available to show all this clabber about the poor starving Gazans, a theme lovingly embraced by the Pravda media, was nothing short of blatant leftist/Islamophilic propaganda.  All of which they could have easily proved was mythological.  Now....after all these years the United Nations has put out a report that debunks ...... debunks mind you.... the propaganda about children starving in Gaza. And in point of fact states "child nutrition in Gaza surpasses that of neighboring Arab states.   Why isn't that headline news?  

• Spare Us the Selective Outrage - Since October 7, we have been lectured nonstop about the supposedly singular sins of Israel. The campuses, the left-wing media, and the new Democratic Socialist officials, both federal and state, following the cue of student activists and professors from the Middle East, have painted Israel and their Jewish supporters as Nazis, fascists, and among the worst murderers in today's bloody world.  This is nonsensical. The medieval-style massacre of 1,200 Jews in their homes on October 7, during a time of peace, should have increased awareness of the existential dangers Israel faced. Instead, it spawned a gathering storm of antisemitism.....

Hate crimes are skyrocketing in New York City, and guess which group is the number one target for that aggression?  The Jews, and we're shocked? Mamdani's jihadist rhetoric has turned the monsters loose on a city with a huge Jewish population, many of which voted for Mamdani.  He's a jihadist. It isn't like no one knew who he was, what he believed, and who he supported.  So, why do people vote for people who tell you they hate you and approve of those who would kill you?

Let's get this once and for all.... just once please.... whether or not you like or dislike Jews; whether on not you like or dislike the state of Israel ....... they're the canary in the coal mine....... and western civilization had better start getting that.  

For those who don't understand that metaphor; before they properly ventilated coal mines miners faced high levels of toxic, odorless gases such as carbon monoxide and methane, so they carried canaries down in cages which were more sensitive to these gases than people. If the canaries got sick or died they knew to evacuate the mine immediately.  The destruction of Israel is merely a stepping stone toward their real goal;  destruction of western civilization.   

Israel rejects Trump's 15-point plan for Gaza and for good reason. It's a stupid plan!   Apparently the plan calls for Israeli forces to agree to a phased withdrawal, without a total, provably, disarmament of Hamas.  Hamas says no because Israel must end all forms of aggression first.  Now that takes a lot of crust.  But hey... not to worry, the plan calls on mediators to assure all parties are complying.  Get real, that's just another ploy to string out their ability to hide what they're really up to, and that's continuing their terrorist activities.  

This clabber about this being a plan that's "verifiable, that is reversible, that at each stage can be stopped, and that we have built up with a very clear-eyed understanding of what are the challenges ahead" is nonsense.  If at any time Hamas reneges the international community will ignore it or tell Israel they have to restrain their reaction to any violations.  All in order "to give the process a chance" it's "the only way forward", so  "just give peace a chance".  They never say that to these terrorists movements; odd isn't it?  Worse yet, they plan on spending billions of American dollars to rebuild Gaza.  I say...let them move to Egypt.... oh..wait... I forgot.  Egypt won't take them in, neither will any of the other Muslim nations of the world.  Wow, isn't that amazing, I wonder why?

It appears the federal government has a stricter view of terrorists in America, as:

The State Department’s War on Far-Left Terrorism The obituary for the Trump State Department’s efforts against “Far-Left Terrorism” (FLT) may have been premature. The Washington Post—from its lofty position as stenographer for the federal bureaucracy—declared the State Department’s Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism a flop before it even began. Anonymous sources lined up to chortle that it was a waste of time and was intended only as public spectacle. According to the credentialed experts popular with the Post, the threat of far-left violence exists only in the minds of the president and his supporters.

Hamas Peace Plan. No, We're Not There Yet, If Ever!

By Rich Kozlovich

Donald Trump has put forth a peace plan to end the Hamas/Israeli war in Gaza, which the Hamas military leadership opposes in spite of the fact the population of Gaza is begging Hamas to agree since, quote unquote, they've been through hell, and have even been abused and exploited by aid workers.  Hamas is so busy trying to kill Jews they don't seem to notice these abuses....actually, they don't care..... and in point of fact, have abused their fellow Gazans worse than these aid workers.

Trump gave Hamas a few days to make up their minds on his plan, a plan Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and even the Palestinian Authority supports.  

The world is ready to stop the bloodshed.  And yet — predictably, infuriatingly — Hamas shrugs and says, “Yes, but...”Every time there’s a glimmer of peace, Hamas moves the goalposts.  Another round of haggling.  Another round of delay.  Another chance to keep the chaos going — because chaos is the only currency Hamas knows how to spend.  And here’s the question no one seems to ask: Where are the protesters now?

For months, we’ve seen mobs in the streets screaming, “Ceasefire now!”  They chained themselves to bridges.  They stormed college campuses.  They shouted down Jewish students and politicians.  But now — when there’s actually a ceasefire deal that Israel and the Arab world have signed off on — the silence is deafening.

They bring up all these cease fire protestors from around the world, most likely professional protestors, but I have to ask; where are all the marching, screaming, ceasefire Israeli activists now? 

Trump has made it clear if they don't agree, then Israel will be turned loose to finish the job.   But, if Hamas agrees they will have to give up their arms, totally disarming their movement, permanently ending their militarization of Gaza, a difficult proposition given the massive underground tunnel system throughout Gaza, and historically, Hamas is a military movement that came into existence to destroy Israel, and has existed with that as their sole purpose for their existence for decades.

The plan also forbids Hamas to have any future role in the governance of Gaza, and a multinational security force composed of Muslim nations in collusion with the Israeli Defense Force, will be in charge of Gaza's security, and will do so over many years. And even if Hamas agreed, are we really to believe that will work?  

I started this piece talking about how Gazans are suffering and want peace, but no matter what appears in the media, and the jabberwocky about peace plans that are touted, I keep coming back to how October seventh has become a distant memory?   

What I remember is these are the same people who danced in the streets as they watched videos of these Hamas monsters raping and murdering innocent women, children, unarmed men, and ever baking a baby alive in an oven.  These are the same people who danced in the streets when they paraded coffins with dead hostages in them.  And we're supposed to bleed all over ourselves regarding their suffering?  All of which they brought onto themselves.   But I have to ask; why is it the world can't seem to notice the Christian genocide being perpetrated in Nigeria.  People who did nothing to deserve being murdered by.... Muslims.... just like the Muslims in Gaza who murdered all those innocent unarmed civilian Israelis, and laughed about it.

 Conclusion?  Whether of not Hamas agrees is meaningless, as they will never honor any agreement that prevents them from murdering Jews, or anyone else for that matter.  The only answer is for Israel to kick out all the Muslim Gazans, totally absorb Gaza into the nation of Israel, build settlements filled with Israelis and tell the world to shove it, and start looking at the same solution for the Palestinian Authority. 

It won't happen, and this will never end as a result.   Hamas is nothing more than a complete reflection of what Islam is all about.  They'll just rename themselves, rearm themselves, and continue their murderous onslaught against unarmed innocent civilians.  That's history, and that history is incontestable.

Hostages versus IDF soldiers and Israel’s security

Vital hostage concerns cannot be preeminent in this complex, brutal war for Israel’s survival

By Paul Driessen

Israeli hostage families have demanded meetings with government officials and deals with Hamas, due to concerns that expanding the Gaza war to eliminate Hamas threats could mean more living kidnap victims will be murdered and those already deceased will disappear forever in Gaza’s terror tunnels.

Supporters staged a “Day of Disruption,” blocking highways, demanding an immediate ceasefire to secure the release of hostages, and saying they won’t stop until everyone returns.

Their understandable anger, fear and frustration underscore divisions among Israelis and within the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and government over how to battle an enemy that has vowed to eradicate Israel “from the river to the sea.” An enemy that views a “two-state solution” as merely a rest stop on its road to making the entire region free of Jews, Christians, Bahais, Druze and other “infidels.” An enemy that rejects any two-state solution, because it wants a One-Muslim-State solution.

Even hostage families are split. The Tikva Forum believes increased military pressure on Hamas and its last sanctuaries is the best way to free their loved ones. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum says Israel should simply accept Hamas’s demands.

I follow Israel issues closely and have been to Israel three times since the October 7 massacres. I still can’t imagine being in their shoes or having to make life-or-death wartime decisions. However, those making return of the hostages their preeminent goal must address other important considerations.

* How can Israel critics and hostage-release-now advocates justify leaving Hamas in power, heavily armed, in control of Tunnel Fortress Gaza – or far worse, governing a UN-recognized nation that could acquire tanks, missiles, fighter jets and other advanced weapons from Israel’s enemies and frenemies?

That prospect cannot be downplayed or ignored when: The Hamas charter says, “There shall be no recognition of the legitimacy” of the “racist, anti-human and colonial” “Zionist entity.”

Hamas leaders proclaim, “Israel has no place on our land.... Nobody should blame us for the things we do on October 7th, October 10th, October 1,000,000.” And another Palestinian activist said, “We are fighting Jews, not Zionism” and “I will drink the blood” of Israeli civilians.

* Is it remotely possible that Hamas will be more willing to release the remaining hostages, amid ongoing rancor and divisions within Israel … calls for recognition of a (still nonexistent) “Palestinian state” by France (Emmanuel Macron), Britain (Keir Starmer), Australia, Canada and others … and growing anti-Israel sentiment (even over football matches) across Europe and beyond?

As US Secretary of State Marco Rubio noted, the unilateral statehood recognition promises quickly led to more antisemitism – and to Hamas’s rejection of the latest ceasefire and hostage release proposals. Is there any basis for thinking that louder demands for hostage releases will change Hamas’s attitudes?

* Do hostage advocates view the lives of IDF men and women as less important than living or dead hostages? That’s unimaginable. They simply want their loved ones brought home.  

But more than 900 Israeli soldiers have died since October 7. Thousands have been shot, paralyzed, burned or made amputees. Still more will be injured or killed if the IDF expands its efforts to “finish the job” (as President Trump has urged it to do), dismantle Hamas and prevent future October 7 massacres.

Yet these brave warriors and their grieving families receive a fraction of the attention given to hostages and their families. Downplaying the importance of IDF casualties is certainly not deliberate or even conscious. But it’s an undeniable result of current hostage politics.

All these lives are precious. None should receive attention or precedence over others.

* Can those who love Israel justify making the Gaza war even more complicated than it already is?

Hamas and Gazans deliberately set the stage for making this urban conflict so brutal and difficult. they built hundreds of miles of interconnected terror tunnels, living quarters, command centers and rocket factories throughout Gaza – with entry shafts into thousands of homes, apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, shops and mosques. Hamas stores guns, explosives, rockets and other weapons in almost every one of them, and uses them for snipers and ambushes. Hamas thus turned all of them into military targets.

The terrorist ideology and propaganda machine deliberately uses women and children as human shields, wants Gaza “martyrs” to die, inflates casualty numbers, and intentionally mixes terrorists and civilians together in death tolls. Gullible or Israel-hating “journalists” endlessly repeat the phony numbers.

And yet Israel is told it must minimize civilian casualties even more than it has – and “end the fighting” according to artificial deadlines set by an “international community” that has been virtually silent about decades of Hamas murders of Israeli civilians and even the horrors of October 7.

Israel is also told it must provide food, medical and other humanitarian aid. Israel has provided over 150,000,000 meals through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which the UN refuses to work with while letting thousands of tons of UN food rot. Hamas tries to steal the aid, while starving hostages and killing Gazans who try to circumvent Hamas control by going directly to the GHF.

(What other army in history has fed its enemies amid a war? Russia certainly isn’t feeding Ukraine.)

And yet the UN and media claim there’s a famine and feature emaciated poster children – who turn out to be kids afflicted by cerebral palsy, Fanconi syndrome or other genetic disorders, not by starvation.

Trying to make hostage deals the paramount consideration roils this maddening situation even further.

* How can the world condone the hypocritical double standards – especially when Israelis are battling a vicious, amoral enemy that seeks their eradication from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea?

There is one Jewish state on Earth, versus 25 majority-Muslim states in Africa and the Middle East alone. Since 1948, Jewish populations have been obliterated in nearly all of them. Yet Israel alone is accused of genocide and Apartheid, despite having the most ethnically and religiously diverse population of these 26 countries.

China is barely criticized for trying to destroy Uyghur and Tibetan language, culture and religion. Islamists brazenly slaughter Christians in a dozen African countries. Similar atrocities continue elsewhere.

48 hostages are still held by Hamas, perhaps 20 still alive. Hamas photos proudly show Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski starving, emaciated and forced to dig their own graves in a tunnel. Israelis were shocked. The UN and world yawned – and accused Israel yet again of causing famine and genocide in Gaza.

The list of outrageous double standards is long and despicable.

It’s as if the world thinks only Israel and Jews are forbidden to fight for their very existence. Never again.

It’s time to finish the war and Hamas, expand the Abraham Accords, bring the hostages home, rebuild Gaza along the Trump plan – and prod the United Nations and international community to do something truly novel and productive for once: create a better, more prosperous, more tolerant future for a Middle East that has been rocked by division, hatred and war far too long.

Paul Driessen has been to Israel multiple times and seen its archeological treasures, modern innovations, amazing multi-ethnic people and tragedies firsthand. He is the author of articles on energy, environmental, human rights and Israel issues.

No There Is Not A "Genocide" In Gaza

August 24, 2025/ Francis Menton @ Manhattan Contrarian

The accusation that Israel is committing a “genocide” in Gaza has become pervasive on the Left, and particularly in academia. I think that the accusation is absurd, so much so that until now I haven’t thought it worthy of a response. However, the accusation has recently arrived on my own website. In the comment thread on the prior post, one of the commenters (regular readers can guess who) has leveled against President Trump the charge that he “is sending weapons to Israel for the genocide in Gaza.” Really? It’s time for a response.

In my opinion, what’s going on in Gaza is not a genocide, but a war. Deaths in war are not a genocide. On October 7, 2023, the governing entity of Gaza, Hamas, conducted an unprovoked attack on Israel, killing approximately 1,200 people, and taking some 250 hostages. Israel has responded with a military action. This is a classic war. The norm in war is that the parties fight until one of the parties surrenders, or there is an armistice. When the parties are fighting, the whole idea is to kill as many of the enemy as possible. Hamas could end the war by surrendering. It has not done so. Moreover, it continues to hold hostages. Therefore, the normal expectation of war would be that Israel will continue to kill as many of the enemy as possible until there is a surrender.

You may disagree with my characterization that the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel was “unprovoked.” It doesn’t matter. Assume that the attack was provoked. This is still a war. In war, it is entirely the norm that a party that has been attacked tries to kill as many of the enemy as it can until the enemy surrenders.

Is there any other example of the term “genocide” being applied to a full-scale military response to an armed attack by an enemy state actor that has not surrendered? If there is, I don’t know of it.

Consider, for example, the Russia/Ukraine war. In this case I would say that Russia’s attack and invasion were unprovoked. The Russian version of events of course differs, and accuses the Ukrainians of provocations that caused the conflict. But again, even if Russia’s invasion was completely unprovoked, the conflict is still a war between enemy state actors, where neither has surrendered. Unlike Israel, which makes extensive efforts to minimize civilian casualties, Russia regularly sends drones to bomb civilian targets and residential buildings in Ukrainian cities. But does anyone call Russia’s conduct toward Ukraine a “genocide”? Not that I’ve seen. Contrast this with the conduct of the Soviet Union toward Ukraine in the 1930s, when it imposed an intentional famine in which millions of innocents starved to death. There was no war going on; Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. That was a genocide.

Or consider World War II. Today that conflict is quickly fading out of living human memory. But it provides some obvious guideposts to distinguish between “genocide” and deaths from combat in war.

During World War II, Hitler and his minions engineered the deaths of some 6 million Jews and others, selected largely by racial and ethnic criteria, who were noncombatants and residents of either Germany or conquered territories. That is the classic “genocide.”

But there were far more deaths from fighting in the war. Here is a quote from a famous speech given by U.S. General George Patton to the Sixth Armored Division of the U.S. army (under his command) on May 31, 1944 (a few days before D-Day and the Normandy beach invasion):

We’ll win this war, but we’ll win it only by fighting and showing the Germans that we’ve got more guts than they have or ever will have. We’re not just going to shoot the bastards, we’re going to rip out their living god.....ed guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We’re going to murder those lousy Hun cocksuckers by the bushel-f.....g-basket.

(Quoted in Michael Walsh’s recent book A Rage to Conquer.)

In other words, with a war going on, we are going to kill the enemy, and as effectively as possible. And Patton was only talking about killing enemy soldiers. The U.S. and allied war effort was by no means limited to killing soldiers. For example, in 1943 and 1944 the U.S. and England carried out saturation bombing campaigns directed at German cities like Dresden, Bremen, Essen and even Berlin itself. There were many military targets, but these campaigns essentially leveled the cities, with very large numbers of civilian casualties. Indeed, a large part of the reason for these campaigns was the attempt to undermine civilian support for the Nazi regime. Nobody thought that the U.S. or England were under any obligation to deliver food aid to the suffering German civilians.

And then there were the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed in these bombings. Shortly thereafter, Japan surrendered unconditionally, at which point the indiscriminate killings ended immediately.

I have no idea how it is that new rules seem to have emerged, applicable only to Israel (or maybe to only Israel and the United States) whereby any civilian casualties in war are now deemed “genocide.” The use of the term seems to be directed at appealing to soft-minded and historically ignorant students and academics in Western countries. But endless repetition of an inapplicable term cannot change a classic war into something else.

Hamas can end the deaths in Gaza by the simple expedient of unconditional surrender. Until then, it can expect large numbers of deaths, many of them civilians.

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The Gaza Starvation and Genocide Farce

By Rich Kozlovich

I keep reading where mental midgets on the left and their media catspaws keep screaming how Israel is perpetrating genocide against Gazans.  The word genocide has been cheapened by these claims. There is no genocide in Gaza, unless you consider the fact that Hamas has willingly sacrificed their own people for political gain, including stealing their food.   

Has there been civilian loss of life among Gazans in this war? Yes, that's why they call it war, and it was a war the Gaza leadership started, and it was Gazans who celebrated dancing in the streets at the atrocities Hamas perpetrated against Israeli civilians in including baking a baby alive in an oven, filming it for public consumption, and Gazans cheered.  

What did the world think was going to happen after the atrocities of October 7th?   There are no innocent Gazans as there were no innocent Germans during WWII with the fire bombing of Dresden, or innocent Japanese during the bombing raids of Japan and the dropping of two atom bombs.  That's the horror of war, and if people don't want to face that horror, they shouldn't start a war.  

If Israel was actually wanting to perpetrate Gazan genocide they could have done it on day one of their retaliation.  If they wanted to perpetrated genocide why is Israel providing massive levels of aid to Gazans, something no military has ever done for an enemy population, and Gazans are Israel's enemy, and yet we've seen a massive public relations effort to claim Israel is attemptiong to starve Gazans to death. 

Democrat Senator from Delaware Chris Van Hollen, whose record for idiotic leftist views is almost legendary, claims Netanyahu is using food as a weapon of war, as if that's never been done before, but is it true?

• ‘Global Campaign of Lies’: Netanyahu Rejects Starvation Allegations, Says IDF Will Open Gaza to Journalists – National Review

The fact is this claim of wide spread starvation among Gazans was invented by Hamas and the United Nations.   If aid isn't getting to the civilian population is being caused by "a combination of United Nations policies, Hamas looting, and black-market profiteering."  

• Anti-Israel Photographer Stages Photographs of Hunger in Gaza

This article by Daniel Greenfield, UN Admits 95% of its Gaza Aid Trucks Were “Intercepted”, clearly depicts just how corrupt the UN has been over this issue saying:

Back when the UN had been in charge it had faked its own famine by refusing to deliver food and letting it pile up instead. Since then the UN’s food aid has kept on piling up even while GHF, an American Christian aid group, has managed to deliver millions of meals to Gaza residents, despite being smeared by the media as “controversial” for feeding those whom the UN wouldn’t........... 

The UNOPS ‘Mechanism for Gaza’ revealed that of the around 2,600 aid trucks entering Gaza, only 300 made it to their destination. 2,310 trucks or 88% of them were ‘intercepted’............ The UN’s WFP recently claimed that it has run out of food stocks and needs $265 million for just the next 6 months to feed Gaza. Where did its food stocks go? Certainly not to aid stations............ 

The best evidence of it is that Hamas made the restoration of UN control over aid into Gaza one of its conditions for a deal. Why would an Islamic terrorist group care who distributes the aid?.........After an aid delivery success ratio in the single digits, the UN is terrible at delivering aid in Gaza, but it’s a stunning success when it comes to its political and economic support of Hamas.

As for this starvation .... the children are dying.... scheme we're seeing in Gaza, it's not unique to Gaza.  In fact it seems to be one of the go to plans used by these terrorist monsters, much of which are predicated on deliberate and outright lies. 

Do you want to see real starvation and genocide? 

• Hypocrisy Exposed: International Outlets Largely Ignore Emaciated Israeli Hostages After Featuring False Starving Gaza Children Pictures
•  Israel Challenges New York Times to Publish Photo of Starving Hostage 
• Report: Hamas Video Shows Israeli Hostage Forced to ’Dig Own Grave’

 Hamas could not defeat Israel militarily, so their go to plan is to claim they're the real victims, not the hostages and innocent men they murdered, the innocent women they raped and murdered, and the innocent children they murdered, all actions lauded by Gazans.  And they get away with it because they understand western leaders live in a moral vacuum.  

• Hamas Understands the Myopia and Moral Imbecility of the West: Hamas understands that if it forces the suffering of its own people, if it maximizes and even falsifies media coverage of that suffering, then the West will rehabilitate Hamas and grant it its demands.  Hamas understands that Westerners are utterly ignorant to the true evil of Hamas, their willingness to multiply the suffering of Palestinians and Israelis alike, to starve their own citizens as well as Israeli hostages, to sacrifice Palestinian children by placing them in the line of fire, all for the cameras; Hamas understands that myopic and self-centered Westerners will simply project their own biases and values onto Hamas, thus granting them unearned innocence and sympathy; Hamas understands that the media would facilitate all of this, elevating a false oppressor/oppressed narrative above the truth.

Hamas is death cult, it really is that simple. 

UN Admits 95% of its Gaza Aid Trucks Were “Intercepted”

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

Over the past few weeks, the UN, the EU, the media and Hamas banded together to demand that aid deliveries shift back from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to the United Nations. The campaign played out with Hamas kidnapping, torturing and killing employees of the U.S. aid group, while the media spread false claims that Israel was using GHF distribution sites as ‘death traps’ for killing Gazans, and world leaders demanded that the UN be put back in charge of aid.

Back when the UN had been in charge it had faked its own famine by refusing to deliver food and letting it pile up instead. Since then the UN’s food aid has kept on piling up even while GHF, an American Christian aid group, has managed to deliver millions of meals to Gaza residents, despite being smeared by the media as “controversial” for feeding those whom the UN wouldn’t.

Whom was the UN actually delivering aid to back when it even bothered trying to deliver it?

The UNOPS ‘Mechanism for Gaza’ revealed that of the around 2,600 aid trucks entering Gaza, only 300 made it to their destination. 2,310 trucks or 88% of them were ‘intercepted’.

Much of the ‘aid’ being brought in by the UN and its allies, including the UN’s WFP, UNICEF, the International Red Cross, the International Medical Corps and the World Central Kitchen, whose founder Jose Andres, has been constantly attacking Israel in the media, was ‘intercepted’.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP), which has been front and center in the media, crying for more money and denouncing Trump and Israel, only successfully delivered 1,864 pallets of aid since May while losing 29,673 pallets or 93% of it to “interceptions”.

The UN’s WFP recently claimed that it has run out of food stocks and needs $265 million for just the next 6 months to feed Gaza. Where did its food stocks go?

Certainly not to aid stations.

The WFP’s track record of successfully delivering pallets is 6%. That’s bad even for the UN. Who is all that aid going to? The UN, which is happy to break down everything by weight and pallet, is deliberately vague on the subject, saying only that it had been “intercepted either peacefully by hungry people or forcefully armed actors, during transit in Gaza”.

Who might those “armed actors” be? Alec Baldwin? Clint Eastwood? Hamas?

The UN, which condemns Israel every other day of the week, isn’t talking, but what we know is its aid groups aren’t actually delivering to any aid groups, they’re ‘delivering’ them to “armed actors” and those armed actors probably aren’t members of the Academy of Motion Pictures.

And the UN’s deliberate ambiguity about how many trucks are being “peacefully” intercepted and how many are being seized by “armed actors” with green headbands is likely a deliberate attempt to obfuscate how many of its ‘aid trucks’ are being used to run supplies to Hamas.

In a recent press release, the UN’s WFP claimed that “a total of 1,833 trucks have been dispatched to reach starving civilians inside Gaza”, it neglected to mention that only 140 of those trucks (currently estimated at 2095) or 5% of the trucks actually reached anyone.

Even assuming the best possible intentions by the WFP, why in the world would anyone hand the UN organization its requested quarter of a billion dollars for a 5% success ratio?

And there’s no reason to assume any good intentions on the part of the UN or the WFP.

After years of doing this, even a bunch of rickshaw drivers could manage a better ratio than 95% enemy intercepts. It’s hard to believe that the 5% deliveries to 95% interceptions ratio reflects anything other than extensive collaboration between the UN’s Gaza employees, many of whom are Hamas, and Hamas. The UN’s refusal to deliver much of the aid under its control reflects a deliberate effort to create shortages in order to put pressure on Israel and drive up the price for the aid that Hamas steals. There’s no famine in Gaza but there are artificial shortages being created by the UN-Hamas alliance meant to financially and politically benefit the terrorists.

The best evidence of it is that Hamas made the restoration of UN control over aid into Gaza one of its conditions for a deal. Why would an Islamic terrorist group care who distributes the aid?

After losing 95% of its aid trucks, you would think that the UN would turn to Israel to provide security, but unlike the Gaza Humanitarian foundation, the international aid groups have repeatedly rejected any Israeli military protection. Lately, UN officials have taken to complaining that their trucks are being looted because they’re forced to use “unsecured routes”.

But if they don’t want Israel to secure those routes, who do they want securing the routes?

According to a New York Times story, “the United Nations does not allow Israeli soldiers to protect aid convoys, fearing that would compromise its neutrality, and its officials have called on Israel to allow the Gaza police, which are under Hamas’s authority, to secure their convoys.”

Having Hamas escort its trucks doesn’t compromise the UN’s neutrality, but having Israel does.

Last year, Farhan Haq, the Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, in response to a question about Israel taking out the Hamas ‘General’ in charge of the ‘Gaza Police’, and “responsible for securing the aid and the aid trucks” admitted that “we have contacts with everyone involved in the grounds who can play a role in making sure that trucks can travel safely through Gaza, and that includes people in the de facto authorities” and vowed that “we will continue our discussions with anyone on the de facto authorities who is capable of working with us to make sure that the flow of goods into Gaza continues.” “De facto authorities” are how nonprofit aid groups tend to refer to illegal Islamic terrorist groups. In this case, that’s Hamas.

The AFP reported that “the Gaza police – which includes many Hamas members – helped secure humanitarian convoys” while NBC News claimed that “Gaza’s police force was also more present and provided security, but months of Israeli bombing have crippled the police.”

The Biden administration, after falsely assuring Israel that Hamas would not intercept the aid, was not only aware that this was going on, but David Satterfield, Biden’s ‘humanitarian’ envoy, condemned Israel for taking out the Hamas ‘police’ including, according to him, “a commander whose units had been involved in providing escorts”, admitted that the Gaza ‘police’ “certainly include Hamas elements” but that “with the departure of police escorts, it has been virtually impossible for the U.N. or anyone else… to safely move assistance in Gaza.”

With Hamas helping to “secure” aid trucks, it’s a mystery how so many of them disappear.

After an aid delivery success ratio in the single digits, the UN is terrible at delivering aid in Gaza, but it’s a stunning success when it comes to its political and economic support of Hamas.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

 

Israel is Killing Gaza With Obesity

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

In 2015, a decade after Israel had withdrawn from Gaza leaving it, as terrorist apologists in the media insisted, an “open-air concentration camp”, weight loss centers began to pop up.

Gaza’s Arab Muslim population was overeating badly.

A 2013 study found 1 out of every 5 adolescents in Gaza was overweight or obese which was comparable to rates in the United States. By 2020 in the combined ‘Palestinian’ occupied areas of Gaza, Judea and Samaria, overweight rates shot up from 20% to 34% among boys and from 24% to 32% among girls. If the Arab Muslim populations were living under oppression and terror, how had their adolescent obesity rates gone from 1 in 4 to as much as 1 in 3?

And it’s not just the adolescents.

A global nutrition report found that nearly 30% of men and 42% of women in the combined areas are obese. In Gaza specifically, 64% of mothers were overweight or obese. How could this wave of obesity be reconciled with the simultaneous claim that 60% of households in Gaza are “food insecure’” The mothers of quite a few of those “food insecure households” are obese.

The shortage of research studies being carried out under Hamas rule makes it difficult to estimate how fat Gaza’s occupiers were, but a revealing data point is that a study conducted in 2019 estimated that among adults over the age of 42, 45% had Type 2 Diabetes and 16.8% had undiagnosed Type 2.

Another Gaza report citing Hamas Ministry of Health numbers claimed that 9.6% of the population in Gaza has diabetes and it’s the cause of 11.2% of one out of nine deaths. If Gazans were living in hunger, why do their diabetes rates look like those of America or Europe?

In 2015, a decade after Israel had withdrawn from Gaza leaving it, as terrorist apologists in the media insisted, an “open-air concentration camp”, weight loss centers began to pop up.

Gaza’s Arab Muslim population was overeating badly.

A 2013 study found 1 out of every 5 adolescents in Gaza was overweight or obese which was comparable to rates in the United States. By 2020 in the combined ‘Palestinian’ occupied areas of Gaza, Judea and Samaria, overweight rates shot up from 20% to 34% among boys and from 24% to 32% among girls. If the Arab Muslim populations were living under oppression and terror, how had their adolescent obesity rates gone from 1 in 4 to as much as 1 in 3?

And it’s not just the adolescents.

A global nutrition report found that nearly 30% of men and 42% of women in the combined areas are obese. In Gaza specifically, 64% of mothers were overweight or obese. How could this wave of obesity be reconciled with the simultaneous claim that 60% of households in Gaza are “food insecure’” The mothers of quite a few of those “food insecure households” are obese.

The shortage of research studies being carried out under Hamas rule makes it difficult to estimate how fat Gaza’s occupiers were, but a revealing data point is that a study conducted in 2019 estimated that among adults over the age of 42, 45% had Type 2 Diabetes and 16.8% had undiagnosed Type 2.

Another Gaza report citing Hamas Ministry of Health numbers claimed that 9.6% of the population in Gaza has diabetes and it’s the cause of 11.2% of one out of nine deaths. If Gazans were living in hunger, why do their diabetes rates look like those of America or Europe?

The suffering of diabetes patients in Gaza during their Jihadist campaign against non-Muslims has been one of the narratives put out by the pro-Hamas humanitarians, none of whom have thought to ask why the condition is so prevalent in a place that supposedly has no food.What was the cause of these high rates? According to the study, “Palestinians consume large amounts of homemade desserts, cakes, sweetened tea, and coffee” and have a massive sugar intake. They eat too much and too well despite supposedly being “refugees” while starving to death in an “open air concentration camp” complete with lavish malls, restaurants and hotels.

Since Hamas launched the Oct 7 genocide campaign, its occupying population in Gaza has been painted as victims and bombarded with massive amounts of food supplies. Over the course of the war, the terrorist population was sent 92,000 truckloads of aid. The amount of aid coming into Gaza actually doubled after its residents began a genocidal campaign of murder, rape and kidnapping of regional minority groups. Compare that to 1,500 truckloads of aid for Sudan and even less for many struggling African populations dealing with actual famine.

Massive amounts of food were dumped on Gaza. The Biden administration, falsely claiming that there was an urgent famine and the population, according to Vice President Kamala Harris, had been reduced to eating “leaves”, air dropped supplies which the local population rejected and criticized on social media. It built a failed $250 million pier to deliver aid that cost the life of an American soldier and injured many others all to deliver food to the non-starving Gazans.

What’s been the result of this massive outpouring of free food? Hamas leaders, terrorists, spokesmen and media operatives have grown unmistakably fat as food has become a form of currency. Not only is there no famine, but Gazans are gorging themselves and even Hamas’ own dubious numbers show Americans are three times as likely to die of malnutrition as they are.

1.8 million tons of aid, including 1.3 million tons of food, have been delivered to Gaza since the launch of their genocidal Hamas campaign. That’s over 1 ton of aid for every adult in Gaza.

Is this good for the enemy population in Gaza? Probably not. When deaths due to diabetes and out of control glycaemic rates are soaring, the last thing it needs is more free food. The UN’s WFP deliveries included snack bars and the current GHF program overseen by the U.S. and Israel is likely also delivering foods not ideal for a population already eating itself to death.

The false claims that Israel is killing the invasive population in Gaza with hunger is false, but the massive truckloads of aid being brought in to save the Hamas supporters from a famine that doesn’t exist may be even more lethal. Gaza, like the rest of the ‘Palestinian-occupied’ territories is a massive welfare state subsidized by the U.S., the UN and the Europeans. And people in welfare states tend to do very little work, eat all the free food they can get, grow fat and violent, and then go off looking for something to destroy. Gaza may be the worst welfare state in the world, but it is a welfare state and its own habits are deadlier to it than Israel.

If Israel is killing Gaza’s enemy population with anything, it’s not hunger, it’s obesity.

But the obesity epidemic in Gaza is fed by the UN, international pressure from world leaders and diplomats, and their own lies about being reduced to eating leaves and dirt.

Gaza’s Arab Muslims are eating themselves to death on their own lies. The torrent of free food will lead to greater obesity, worse diabetes trends and other dietary diseases. And it’s their political allies and international enablers who are killing them with endless free food.

The UN and the EU can promise to save Gaza, but no one can save them from themselves. 

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

Greta Thunberg And the Traveling Circus

By Rich Kozlovich

On June 9th Andrea Widburg, who accurately described Greta Thunberg as an "angry little troll", posted this piece at American Thinker, Israel has a fitting punishment for Greta Thunberg and her fellow ‘Hamactivists', saying:

My favorite Gilbert & Sullivan operetta is The Mikado.* One of the great songs sees the Emperor of Japan sing that his “object all sublime” is to make “the punishment fit the crime.”........I read what Israel intends to do to Greta Thunberg for invading its sovereign territory with her showboating plan to bring a few pounds of flour to the Gazans (who are not starving)........

In theory, Israel can try to imprison Thunberg and her merry band for violating its territorial waters. However, Israel has a more appropriate plan, and one that fits the crime. It’s going to educate Thunberg, who lives in a leftist bubble, about what happened on October 7....... Greta Thunberg and her posse of international activists will be forced to watch footage of the Oct. 7 terror attack after Israeli forces intercepted their Gaza-bound “selfie yacht,” Israel’s defense minister revealed Monday.

Nor will Thunberg be shown an edited version that cleans up the gore and leaves out the videos of Gazans exulting in the slaughter. Instead, she’ll see the raw footage:

Not only do they need to show the film in its raw form, they need to film the "punishment" and do it close up for each and every one of these people in order to see their reactions, and to show if they're refusing to watch the film.  

The fact is they need to release the film in order for the world to see the horrors perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2024.... and they need to do it regularly.  As for Greta, the more you dig into her nitwittery the worse it gets, and it’s clear she’s mentally challenged. 

Other than her much publicized stand of the fraud of global warming, in my Greta Thunberg file I show that she's against growing enough food to feed the world, she's against sufficient energy production needed for advanced societies to function, and any who don't agree with here are all racists.  And now she's an open antisemite and supporter of Muslim violence, torture, and destruction of western civilization. 

In my September 2, 2022 article, The Thunberg Syndrome, I state:

A syndrome is defined as:  a characteristic combination of opinions, emotions, or behavior.  And that's what we are seeing with all those who are in the Church of the Warming Globe, including, and maybe especially Greta Thunberg.   I really hate to pick on a kid, but Greta Thunberg and her parents have put her on the world’s stage, and in a situation that makes her subject to serious criticism. ......She's just 16, refuses to go to school, claims her Asperger's is a "superpower", and is ascribed such mystical powers that her mother even claims "she can see carbon dioxide with the naked eye ... how it flows out of chimneys".

Well, her parents certainly failed this silly child with her cultish worship of Mother Earth and the State.  This isn't about climate or the environment.  This is about imposing a worldwide system of leftist control over humanity.  Her position on climate?  "Climate... is a crisis of human rights, justice, political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression created, fueled it."

Now ask yourself, does that sound like a scientific analysis of climate or leftist rhetoric for destroying capitalism?  This was from a child who is incapable of speaking without a script or discussing any science behind her views.  

What we have here is an ignorant spoiled brat with emotional problems (more here regarding those problems) who has been turned into spokesperson for the worldwide “Warmists” movement!  As this piece points out:  I’m sure she’s been a puppet for someone since the day she came on the scene with her ‘how dare you’ blather to the world on Climate Change. Essentially she’s just a ‘Climate Change actress’ because I’m sure she’s getting paid well for her ‘activism’....... 

In her case,  I wonder how this isn’t considered child abuse.

The questions not asked nearly enough are:  Who's funding this mentally challenged, ignorant, foolish person, and who provided that yacht, which needs to be confiscated?  What's interesting is who are the people traveling with her, and what do they do for a living? 

The rest of the crew included six French nationals, including a French-Palestinian member of the European Parliament named Rima Hassan, plus citizens of Brazil, Spain, and Turkey, and an Irish actor named Liam Cunningham who appeared in the HBO series Game of Thrones........... Fortunately for Thunberg and her crew, they were not treated the way Hamas handles its hostages. Instead, the Israeli government released video of the detainees in good spirits as they chowed down on pastrami sandwiches.....

Yet Turkey called this the act of a terrorist state.... Imagine that .... and others are demanding a lot of people send more ships to cause trouble by claiming to have been kidnapped as Thunberg has claimed, in spite of the fact they were given every opportunity to turn back and refused.  

This was "virtue signaling at its worst".  And her reason for this stunt?  "Her complaint was that Hamas was no longer in charge of aid distribution, so she essentially went on a dark money-paid yacht cruise to support Muslim terror".  Which is why they threw their phones and laptops over board in order to prevent proof of what seems obvious:  "Greta Thunberg is a Muslim terrorist working with Hamas."  

Perhaps they might wish to give Greta a dictionary in order for her to look up the definition for the word kidnapped.  But, truth be told, that won't help, since one of the missions of leftists is to redefine words to make them fit their agenda, as George Orwell wrote in his book 1984, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, and more.   

The Left’s Twisted Morality - One of the strangest things about leftists is that they claim to be more moral than the rest of us. This is because they have an inverted moral sense: on issue after issue, the Left’s position is not good, but evil. Whether it is excusing Hamas, issuing orders to keep illegal immigrant pedophiles and human traffickers in the U.S., or telling girls to shower with boys, the Left’s pet issues are all on the wrong side of any sane moral code.

Truth, facts, and history are on the same side, all of which is despised by leftism since time, truth, and history are not on their side.  Disaster follows leftists just as Sancho Panza followed Don Quixote, a mad man.  That's history, and that history is incontestable.  

Greta Thunberg is a strange and angry person who's been out of the limelight for a couple of years, and I have to believe that whatever far left source that's funding her requires her to be actively involved in promoting leftist insanity on a regular basis, and she will comply, following madness, just like Sancho Panza.

 As for that video they were shown of the horrors perpetrated by Hamas on innocent and defenseless civilians, mostly filmed by the terrorists, she and the rest of these misfits refused to watch it.

Update, 6/19/25:   

Genocidal Greta December 4, 2023, John Hinderaker,  Among the many leftists who have expressed support for Hamas, seemingly unconcerned with its outrages of October 7, is Greta Thunberg. Thunberg, now 20 years old, is regarded as a heroine by many for her uncompromising demand that the Western world (she hasn’t visited China, to my knowledge) stop using fossil fuels. Just the News reports (see original for links): Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is dividing the climate movement ......

 Greta Thunberg’s Excellent Adventure - The media circus she craved never materialized. ........ She had been joined in this publicity stunt by, inter alia, the Franco-Palestinian politician Rima Hassan, Thunberg’s BFF, who has attended pro-Hamas rallies in Jordan and blamed Israel for the killing of the Bibas family, including nine-month-old Kfir and four-year-old Ariel, who in fact were murdered — strangled — by Hamas in captivity. 

This ghastly crew also included the Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham, a German “self-described ‘activist’ who openly celebrates when Iran bombs Israel,” and Israel haters from a half-dozen other countries, including Brazil and Turkey. Videos show the commandos handing out sandwiches and water to the crew, and amusingly, Thunberg is captured on film eyeing hungrily the sandwiches about to be distributed by the Israeli commandos, just before the boat again got back underway to the Israeli port of Ashdod, where the boat will remain for now, and the dirty dozen of mostly dozy bints will now be flown home to their countries of origin. 

 

The Israelis did insist on doing one thing: they played for Thunberg and her fellow travelers a film showing the atrocities carried out by Hamas on October 7, 2023, no doubt hoping to educate some of those who are now so supportive of Hamas. One doubts, however, that anything could change their minds in the slightest. In fact, once they realized what it was, they refused to watch it.

P&D Geopolitical Edition

By Rich Kozlovich

As is well known Hamas launched a surprise attack against an unarmed defenseless civilian population performing vile acts on men, women, and children, even baking a baby alive in an oven and filming it to the great pleasure of Gazans.  They initially attacked wearing some form of uniform, but as soon as they became the targets they dumped those uniforms as they had no desire to have a standup fight with armed and trained military personnel.  Killing defenseless men, women and children is so much easier.   

Now it's a war of attrition, and some are questioning who will survive, Hamas or Israel?  Get real, Hamas is doomed in Gaza, and even the Gazans are marching against them.  Not in favor of Israel mind you, just in favor of their own self interests, they would still dance in the streets if more coffins with dead Israeli hostages were paraded through the streets.   There are no innocents in Gaza, and in spite of Hamas claims 70% of casualties have been women and children, that's another lie, it turns out "72% of casualties are male, a demographic that aligns with Hamas combatants."

 In Turkey President Erdogan arrested his political opponent in the upcoming election and Erdogan's regime has taking on all the ear marks of the Iranian model of government, and an awful lot of people are really unhappy about that, triggering massive demonstrations involving hundreds of thousands of people, as the author goes on to say:

The arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the leading political rival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on corruption charges — after being accused of both corruption and terrorism — marks yet another sign that Turkey is becoming the next Iran: A state where elections are tightly controlled, rigged in advance and reduced to a democratic façade without free and fair campaign conditions.

Turkey’s Islamist ruler has not yet established an official Turkish equivalent of Iran’s Guardian Council — a 12-member body that vets all candidates in elections and disqualifies those who pose a perceived threat to the mullah regime. However, the arrest of İmamoğlu, following the earlier imprisonment of popular Kurdish political leader Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been in jail since 2016, confirms that a de facto Guardian Council is taking shape in Turkey.

Turkey is becoming a state where elections are tightly controlled, rigged in advance, and reduced to a democratic façade without free and fair campaign conditions.

Notice the pattern playing out here worldwide.  Erdogan weaponized the justice system, wants to rewrite their constitution eliminating their legislative structure to install him as the absolute ruler, a "theocratic dictator".

While there may be some validity to charges of corruption against İmamoglu, corruption is so wide spread in Turkey's political sphere that would be expected, but it's only allowed for those who support Erdogan.

Will these demonstrations alter Turkey's political structure?  We'll see, as every tool of oppression is being used against anyone who stands against Erdogan.  But I think it needs to be understood none of this is really about Democracy as we know it.  It's about changing who's in charge for their own benefit.  Corruption in government isn't an anomaly throughout the Middle East and Africa, it's the rule, and it's a rule the group in power wants to exploit to the limits, and even beyond.

Anything said by Erdogan that may sound reasonable and conciliatory, is simply not to be taken seriously.  Remember, Iran is the model for what Erdogan is doing, and just like Khomeini who talked about bringing democracy to Iran and had no desire to become Iran's ruler, it was a deliberate lie.  A lie that was reported by a gullible media, after all they really liked the idea the pro-American government of the Shah of Iran was deposed.

In Turkey Erdogan has manipulated the tax system to punish anyone who disagrees or challenges him and fines any newspaper massively for reporting the facts about his polices, aims, and goals.   The media that remains spews out adoring accolades of Erdogan's greatness, and the tens of millions of children who've gone through their education system have been properly indoctrinated to be pro Erdogan supporters, all of which makes these massive demonstrations even more amazing.

Support for terrorist groups is part of Erdogan's foreign policy, and it's time the west recognized that, but Turkey is a member of NATO and that can't be ignored.  Their support of violent terrorist jihadi groups has to be addressed by declaring Turkey a supporter of terrorists, and such a designation should be the touchstone for all negotiations and dealings with Turkey. 

No One Actually Objects to Resettling Gaza

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

After President Trump proposed resettling the Arab Muslim settlers currently living in Gaza, there was an outbreak of furious objections from politicians, activists and media outlets.

The objections could be roughly divided into the moral and the practical. The ‘moral’ objection was that it was ‘wrong’ to resettle the population currently occupying Gaza, and the ‘practical’ objection was that it would be impossible to accomplish.

Both objections do not hold up.

The Jewish population of Gaza was resettled twice, once after the Egyptian invasion and the conquest of Gaza during the War of Independence, and the second time after the 2005 ‘disengagement’ forcibly eliminated 21 Jewish communities and expelled families living there.

Not only did politicians and the media not object to the forcible removal of the Jewish communities of Gaza, but they celebrated it as a step forward for peace in the region.

Many, if not most ‘peace plans’, propose the further resettlement of hundreds of thousands of Jews living in Judea and Samaria to make way for a ‘Palestinian’ state. Even as they object to resettling Gazan Muslims in Arab countries, they refer to Jews living in the ‘West Bank’ as settlers, to their communities as ‘settlements’ and propose that they be resettled elsewhere.

UN Resolution 242 has been interpreted by many politicians and the media to mean that Israel must withdraw from territory, including parts of Jerusalem, where 450,000 Jews live. The same people who insist that it’s morally wrong and impractical to resettle 2 million Muslims out of Gaza also argue that it’s morally right and practical to resettle nearly half a million Jews in Israel.

No one actually objects to resettling Gaza. Opponents of Trump’s proposal don’t believe it’s wrong to resettle a population, they would just rather expel and resettle Jews than expel and resettle the Arab Muslim colonial population.

They don’t oppose resettlement, they support terrorism.

With the moral question out of the way, what about the practical one: is it even possible?

Some say that the Gaza Arab Muslim population could not be moved without ‘door-to-door fighting’. But Israel’s recent experience in the war after Oct 7 shows that’s clearly not true.

Despite the false claims of genocide, the Israelis kept civilian casualties to a minimum by evacuating as much as the ‘civilian’ population as possible from one part of Gaza to another.

Despite being told it was impossible, Israelis evacuated hundreds of thousands of Gazans to make way for military operations. During the beginning of the war, around 1 million Gazans left the north for the south and the UN would later claim that as many as 1.5 million Muslim settlers in Gaza had been displaced. Most of those in Gaza followed orders and got out of the way.

Looking to examples beyond Israel, the Black September war between Jordan and the PLO resulted in the deaths of some 4,000 terrorists, as many as 25,000 civilians, according to Yasser Arafat, and some 20,000 ‘Palestinians’ were resettled in ‘refugee camps’ in Lebanon.

After the Gulf War, Kuwait punished the ‘Palestinians’ who had collaborated with Saddam Hussein, by expelling some 280,000 of them in a mass purge that was later joined by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf allies for a total estimated by ‘Palestinian’ advocates at 400,000.

Kuwait shelled ‘Palestinian’ neighborhoods and sent in death squads to massacre them. Tanks and troops were deployed, checkpoints were set up and most of the ‘Palestinians’ were driven from their country and their neighborhoods were eliminated. Parts of Hawally, where the ‘Palestinians’ used to live, were bulldozed and turned into an amusement park.

This was done with the support of the first Bush administration.

“I think we’re expecting a little much if we’re asking the people in Kuwait to take kindly to those that had spied on their countrymen that were left there, that had brutalized families there, and things of that nature,” President George H.W. Bush told reporters at a press conference.

Saudi Arabia deported over 50,000 ‘Palestinians’, Bahrain, the UAE and Qatar, which has since become a state sponsor of Hamas, also began firing, expelling and deporting ‘Palestinians’.

None of these events occasioned much protest or commentary, they occurred with the support of western governments who, like President Bush, compared it to the reactions of the French against collaborators after the Nazi occupation, and life soon went on as it had before.

The resettlement of large numbers of ‘Palestinians’ has happened before in the Middle East. While the resettlement of Gaza would take place on a larger scale, it would not be that much larger than the resettlements during the war or in the aftermath of the Gulf War.

Such a resettlement is both practical and morally defensible since there are no other options.

The underlying problem in the conflict is that Israel resettled some 800,000 Jewish refugees from the Muslim world, while the Arab Muslim nations who attacked it failed to do likewise. Along with the UN, they insisted on maintaining them under the fake identity of ‘Palestinians’ as a perpetual army of occupation: forming into terrorist groups for an endless war with Israel.

“You have to learn from history. You can’t keep doing the same mistake over and over again,” President Trump pointed out.

Every possible effort has been made to create a ‘Palestinian’ state for over 30 years. After multiple peace proposals, land concessions, endless rounds of negotiations and taxpayer funding (over $2 billion through USAID to the ‘Palestinians’ since Oct 7 alone) nothing worked.

When Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, leaving behind greenhouses and plans for new industries, along with sizable international funding, Hamas turned it into a war zone.

Two-state solutionists continue to argue that if Israel were to offer even more land, expel and resettle more Jews, the Muslim terrorists would finally agree to a permanent peace.

But there has never been a single shred of evidence that would work. None of the Israeli proposals or concessions undertaken since the late 1980s have led to any kind of peace. The PLO and Hamas used terrorism at every turn to press for more Israeli concessions while giving nothing in return. Their leaders have said again and again that they intend to destroy Israel.

After Oct 7, everyone is finally taking them at their word.

Diplomats insisted that peace could not come without the expulsion and resettlement of Jews from Judea and Samaria. President Trump flipped the table by suggesting that it can’t come without the resettlement of Arab Muslims from Gaza. Which makes more sense?

Debate is still going on about President Trump’s proposal for an American role in Gaza. Many Americans and Israelis see the move as unnecessary. They would prefer to have Israel take care of business alone with the political support of the United States. Just as Bush provided political support for the Kuwaitis to expel the ‘Palestinian’ population from their country.

President Trump is a visionary and his idea reframed the entire view of the conflict, and while it may only be an opening for a negotiating position, like his talk of annexing Canada or Greenland, there is no doubt that it has shaken up all the conventional wisdom in the Middle East. His basic premise, that Gaza is a lovely place that will be a source of conflict as long as it is populated by Islamic terrorists and their supporters, is fundamentally sound.

The objections to it, both moral and practical, are groundless. Resettlement is feasible and moral. If the Kuwaitis and the Jordanians could resettle the ‘Palestinians’ out of their countries on far less grounds than the atrocities of Oct 7, the Israelis certainly have the right to do it.

The politicians, diplomats and reporters who advocated for the mass resettlement of nearly half a million Jews have no moral grounds for opposing the resettlement of Gaza Muslims.

And after trying everything else, including decades of failed efforts to make peace with the terrorists or trying to coexist with them in the absence of peace, it’s time to do what makes the most sense for everyone, and the only thing that has any hope of bringing peace to the region.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

UN Blocks Aid to Gaza to Fake a Famine

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog 

Every day, the UN, international organizations and the media claim that everyone in Gaza is starving to death because they have no food and every day Israel’s COGAT aid coordination agency lists exactly how many trucks filled with humanitarian aid have actually entered Gaza.

On Jan 2, for example, 189 trucks filled with aid entered Gaza. Only 147 trucks however were collected on the Gazan side with another 800 trucks worth of aid waiting to be collected. Food has been piling up and rotting on the Gaza side because it’s not being delivered by the UN.

Politicians, activists and the media have spent over a year perpetuating a myth that Israel is blocking food deliveries into Gaza when there is actually more aid coming in than the aid groups complaining about Israel ‘blocking aid’ can handle or be bothered to deliver to Gazans.

While the aid sits there and rots, the UN and ‘humanitarian’ agencies claim that it’s too dangerous for them to deliver the food. Israel has offered to provide security for aid deliveries, but those offers have been rejected since the UN is coordinating with Hamas.

As a New York Times article described, “the United Nations does not allow Israeli soldiers to protect aid convoys, fearing that would compromise its neutrality, and its officials have called on Israel to allow the Gaza police, which are under Hamas’s authority, to secure their convoys.”

The United Nations claims that Israel is starving Gaza when it’s the UN that is actually stalling aid deliveries to save Hamas. The UN and other agencies claim that it’s too dangerous to deliver the aid without Hamas protection. Not only do they refuse Israeli military protection, but many won’t even hire private security inside Gaza. They demand only Hamas protection.

Mercy Corps, for example, issued a statement blasting Israel for supposed “impediments to aid delivery” and demanded a crackdown on Israel. Mercy Corps claimed that “this is a preventable crisis. No one should starve to death when food is waiting to reach them mere miles away” while calling for a ceasefire. An NPR story however revealed that “some organizations have hired armed men in Gaza to protect their trucks, but most, including Mercy Corps, refuse to do this.”

A Gaza “humanitarian snapshot” hosted by Mercy Corps complained about “Israeli attacks on the civilian police force, hindering their ability to work safely.” The “police” being Hamas.

The UN and ‘humanitarian’ groups are not only complicit with Hamas and have enabled the Islamic terror group to gain half a billion dollars to keep the war going, but they are holding humanitarian aid hostage to protect Hamas terrorists and end Israel’s war on Hamas.

Delivering aid was never the actual objective of the UN and aid groups. They partnered with Hamas to take Gaza’s population hostage and use them as human shields to save Hamas.

Contrary to their constant famine lies, no amount of aid is ever enough and the current aid is rotting unused because they insist that aid can’t be ‘safely’ delivered without Hamas in charge.

The false claims of a famine require false statistics used to disguise this terrorist conspiracy.

The UN and aid agencies, including those funded by the U.S. government, inflate the amount of people in Gaza and use fake statistics to claim there’s less aid coming in than there actually is.

Recently the Famine Early Warning System (FEWS), which is funded by USAID, took down a report falsely claiming that there were 75,000 starving civilians in North Gaza. The actual number of civilians was between 7,000 to 15,000. After criticism from the U.S. ambassador, FEWS admitted that it was using “outdated population estimates” that increased the population in North Gaza by 5 to 10 times. And that allowed the group to falsely warn of a famine.

Increase the population in even the wealthiest nations tenfold and it becomes easy enough to label the existing amount of food as inadequate and warn that a famine is about to take hold.

The UN falsely claimed that 2,205 “humanitarian trucks were permitted to enter” Gaza in December. The actual number was over 5,000 trucks, but the UN was only counting trucksaffiliated with its own organizations, the World Food Programme and UNRWA (but, for whatever reason, not UNICEF), or the many other humanitarian groups who were also handling aid.

Were these accidental errors? If so they were suspiciously timed.

In December 2023, an arm of the UN, predicted a famine by May 2024. And in May 2024, the UN reported that only 1,497 trucks had entered Gaza, when the actual number was 6,359.

Was it a coincidence that the UN’s undercounting of aid trucks was by far the highest in the one month in which it predicted a famine? Or that similar patterns have occurred in the past.

After the latest lie fell apart, international aid groups have pivoted to claiming that children are freezing to death in Gaza even though current temperatures are between 67 and 59 degrees and the overnight low was 47 degrees. After one hoax is discredited, another one begins.

The purpose of these hoaxes is to collect as much money as possible and to save Hamas.

The UN’s World Food Programme is demanding $16.9 billion for 2025 and other ‘humanitarian’ aid groups have been aggressively fundraising, but the larger agenda is to protect the terrorists.

There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the only crisis is that Islamic terrorists are losing a war that they started. International organizations have become an arm of Islamic terrorism, funding, employing and lobbying for Islamic terrorist organizations who are at war with the free world.

Not only should we not fund the UN and other ‘aid groups’, or provide them with tax-exempt status, we should sanction them for their financial and political relationships with Islamic terrorist organizations and treat any money going to their operations in Gaza, Yemen, Syrian, Afghanistan and other terror zones as a criminal act of providing material support to terrorists.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

 

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Nation Building’s Last Stand in Gaza

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

Rafah isn’t just the last stand for Hamas, but for an entire foreign policy establishment.

The desperate effort to keep Israeli soldiers from going into the last Gaza stronghold of the Islamic terrorist organization is about more than the sum of the geopolitical parts.

After nation building failed in Afghanistan and Iraq, and everywhere else it’s been tried, the radioactive ‘Palestinian’ nation building experiment from over 30 years ago is its last hope.

Long before George W. Bush tackled nation building after 9/11, his father began the era of turning Muslim terrorist groups into countries with the project to give the PLO a state. Where the first Bush failed, Bill Clinton succeeded with the Oslo accords and a Nobel prize for Arafat.

The PLO state failed long before Iran took over Iraq and the Taliban took over Afghanistan. There had never been anything peaceful, democratic or aspirational about Arafat and the PLO. By the time that Hamas had captured Gaza after winning democratic elections, it had long been clear to everyone outside of D.C. that rather than ending terrorism, statehood had incarnated it.

Any ‘Palestinian’ state was doomed to be a terrorist state. The only question is who would run it. And the answer was that the biggest and deadliest terrorists would command popular support.

When Iraq and Afghanistan went bad, America could just leave, Israelis did not have that luxury. Sharon forcibly expelled the Jews living in Gaza to the other side of a border wall, but despite all the sob stories that the terrorists were living in an “open air concentration camp” with five-star hotels and mansions, walls weren’t that hard to get through even before Oct 7.

Israel has been stuck living next door to a failed thirty year nation-building experiment gone bad. And everyone in the international community is worried that the Oct 7 war will see it taken apart.

Lately the nation building experts have taken to warning that Israel is doing it the wrong way. Former CIA Director David Petraeus who also oversaw American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been arguing that Israel needs to pivot to a “counterinsurgency” model. And then we’re back to “winning hearts and minds” instead of actually trying to win a war.

The Biden administration has never stopped insisting that Israel needs a “day after” plan for rebuilding Gaza under a PLO government and some “moderate” terrorists from Hamas. Three generations after it became the norm, fighting a war without nation building as an endgame is so impossible that warfare experts can’t even understand what they’re seeing in Israel.

But among all the other problems with nation building is that it doesn’t work. And the Israelis who have been living next to the original chernobyl of nation building know it better than anyone.

Nation building has failed in every single Muslim country it’s been tried, not just by the United States after 9/11, but by the British between WWI and WWII. The entire Middle East is one long great nation building disaster shaped by primeval nation building experiments such as the Sykes-Picot agreement, the Hashemite monarchies and finally the recession of colonialism.

But it’s not just Muslim countries where nation building has backfired in familiar patterns.

D.C. elites can look to Haiti where decades of interference led to one disaster after another. The armed gangs overrunning the island nation started life as police forces. Democracy initiatives just worsened tensions and led to murderous outbreaks of political violence.

The same situation abounds across much of Africa, and parts of Latin America and Asia, where no amount of nation building could overcome tribalism, gang violence and political extremists.

Our nation building fails even worse than the British variety because it follows the American model of trying to overcome tribalism, assuming that democracy will empower individuals instead of blocs, and that having elected officials control institutions will lead to good government when in reality the majority seizes power and then viciously suppresses minorities.

American foreign policy believes that no people or group are good or bad, they just lack sufficient representation or the ability to participate in democratic elections. And that any governments that suppress any group, no matter how evil, are inherently illegitimate.

That’s why Truman insisted on ending Chiang Kai-Shek’s repression of Communists in China, why Carter bailed out the Islamists in Iran, and why, based on this stunning track record, we decided that the only way to stop terrorism in Israel was to give the terrorists their own state.

Faced with 30 years of terrorism, the nation builders see no other alternative to a terror state.

But Israelis do. They saw it before Oct 7 and they certainly see it all too clearly now. David, Ben and Ezra aren’t dying in tunnels and bombed buildings to create another terrorist state in Israel.

Americans have gotten sick of sending their sons to die for nation building. The term has become so toxic that no one wants to use it anymore. Biden loudly claimed that the withdrawal from Afghanistan marked the end of nation building. And now he’s back to nation building again.

Biden, Secretary of State Blinken and every one of the nearly 80,000 State Department employees are very upset (some have already resigned) that Israel isn’t following the nation building playbook. Some accuse Israel of harboring dire plots to expel all the Muslims from Gaza or to impose their own authority on them, but they’re too blind to see the actual reality.

The Israelis have had friends and family members brutally butchered, burned to death, raped and kidnapped on Oct 7 and they don’t care what exists in Gaza so long as it isn’t the terrorists. They’re being forced to supply food and medical aid to the perpetrators by D.C., which no army was forced to do in the past, but they have no interest beyond that in the enemy population.

Israelis care as much about Gazans as we cared about Afghans on 9/11. And while the U.S. officials who oversaw over a decade of failed nation building experiments may not understand,. America would have been far better off if we had focused on hunting down the perpetrators, their enablers and then left giant holes in the ground as a warning to any future terrorists.

Our “day after” plans for Afghanistan and Iraq cost us a generation of fighting men for nothing. Even the ‘Surge’, the last stand of the counterinsurgency model, did nothing to stop Iraq from falling into the hands of Iran which is now using it to launch attacks on American bases.

“Truly winning this war would require creating some sort of government in Gaza that could gain the support of the people and prevent Hamas from returning after Israeli soldiers pull out,” ex-neo con Max Boot argues in his Washington Post column.

But what if killing Jews is what the ‘people’ in Gaza really want? Just as what the Shiites in Iraq really wanted was to step on the Sunnis and the Kurds, what the Sunnis in Iraq really wanted was to kill the Shiites and rape the Yazidis, and what the Kurds wanted was their own country. And just as a whole lot of Afghans really wanted to lock up women and mandate beards again.

Nation building’s faulty premise is that people everywhere want what Americans want.

And so we ignore what they say they want. We ignore what they vote for. And then we ignore it when they actually start killing each other as we try to give them what they’re supposed to want.

Nation building was built on denying that tribalism is a fundamental force and that demographics is destiny. We refused to believe that in Afghanistan, we refused to believe it in Iraq and now we still refuse to believe it in Gaza. But the trouble is that the Arab Muslims of Gaza do believe it.

After two decades of failing to win a war (because we didn’t even try) maybe it’s time to let the Israelis give it a shot. What’s the worst that could happen? Gaza will be overrun by Islamic terrorists? Muslims will hate us and try to kill us? There will be op-eds in the New York Times?

The Israelis have grown tired of trying to win the hearts and minds of rapists, kidnappers and killers. They’ve grown tired of giving them what we think they want and are giving them what they deserve. Maybe we could learn something from their experiment in ‘un-nation building’.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.  Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.