It seems clear to me that NGOs, charity initiatives of various sorts and international efforts to flood Gaza over the years with medicine, food, fuel and all else ultimately led to the tragic events we witnessed recently in Israel. I contest that it was foreign help, which came in the form of aid and NGO support, that enabled Hamas’ extended grip on power and prevented Gazans from achieving their destiny: Peace.
A 2022 UN report highly critical of Israel claimed that, as a result of previous friction between the two neighbours (Israel/Palestine), a situation of ‘aid dependency’ had become the new normal in Gaza.
This is surely why the last vote, referendum or poll held in Gaza took place years ago, back in 2006, a huge 18 years ago. Without foreign help, without NGOs propping up the Hamas government, new elections would have been demanded due to worsening conditions and a lurch towards peace and comprise would have been the logical next step.
Let’s look at the facts.
In 2005, Israel voluntarily left Gaza after occupying that territory for an extended period of time in order (Israel asserted) to protect Israeli citizens from terror attacks.
When Israel withdrew in 2005, she took her settlers with her.
These twin events should have paved the way for peace, yet Hamas, whose mission is ‘the obliteration of the state of Israel’, felt emboldened enough, supported enough and loved enough by Western left-leaning, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic folk to refrain from joining the international community in terms of becoming more democratic and less militant.
The foreign support and love for the Palestinian underdog drove Hamas towards violence and war as Hamas knew that when Israel inevitably, naturally replied with even greater attacks and violence and abject destruction, the Western left and virtuous NGOs, who ignore the failings and problems in their own homelands and neighbourhoods, would come running to their aid with billions more dollars, pounds and euros, with endless free food and fuel and clothing and building materials and whatever else Hamas needs to keep Gazans under the thumb.
It sounds harsh to cut off aid suddenly, especially in times of war such as these in the Middle East, yet that is the step needed in order to usher in a real and long-lasting peace in the region. Peace begins with ending ‘free stuff and free money for Hamas’ (millions if not billions from Western “saviours” and anti-Semites), which is used to bribe or coerce folk into killing innocent Israelis and remaining loyal to the regime, which seems not to like elections very much, and it ends with Western militaries thereafter refraining from flooding the Middle East with weapons and military hardware.
NGO’s, get the hell out of Israel and Palestine—and, thereafter, Western militaries and arms dealers, get the hell out of Israel and Palestine also.
Once the aid is cut off completely (ban NGOs if necessary, all of them, if that’s what it takes), all energy and efforts in Gaza will have to be invested in agriculture, productivity, building, education and peace.
The killers of those innocent young people partying in the desert recently would have all been ploughing fields or tending to sheep or studying in college were it not for the billions of dollars, euros and pounds that Western anti-Semites, fifth columnists and bleeding-heart liberals recklessly sent to Gaza in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
I see the same pictures you see on the TV screens; I am moved by the suffering of Palestinians, of course I am, and I want this to end. Yet, seeking to help Palestinians by sending billions their way will only ensure their suffering if maintained over a prolonged period of time as their ongoing suffering births widespread sociopathy and hatred for everyone, for all humans, including for one another, as community and society erodes to nothingness.
We must turn off the aid tap (when it is safe to do so). We must force peace. And thereafter Western military support for Israel must be reduced over time to nothingness as this is, understandably, deemed provocation and intimidation in the region.
End aid. Hold new elections in Gaza. Whoever wins the election must then prove they are capable of governing without the need for foreign “saviours” and foreign anti-Semites of various stripes who masquerade as lovers of humanity as they hide their true face and agendas.
Anyone can shoot an AK-47; anyone can dig tunnels under Gaza; anyone can kidnap a few hundred people—is this leadership? Is this glory? Is this honour? Is this victory? Is this the image Gazans want to project worldwide?
It is impossible for Gaza to fight her way to victory, just as it was impossible for Germany to fight her way to victory in the last month of WWII.
If the battle is hopeless, if all you have on your side is God or righteous anger, pride and ego, you will surely fail when facing off against calm, dispassionate and non-emotional competitors armed with fighter jets, modern battle tanks and, ultimately, nuclear weapons.
It seems that Hamas was, in a dark way, running for re-election when they committed those atrocities recently, it seeming as though Hamas believe the collective unconscious of Gazans desires Jewish blood to be spilt, as much Jewish blood to be spilt as possible.
Hamas is saying, ‘Don’t choose new leaders because we get results. Look how many Jews we’ve hurt and killed; we really dented their egos, right? They must feel really afraid now. What an embarrassment that their Iron Dome wasn’t as perfect as they claimed. Keep supporting Hamas because we are more powerful than Israel and the USA combined!’
Are there foreign players involved in the conflict beyond the USA and the foreign NGOs who enable the reign of Hamas to be extended for an unlimited period of time? Yes, there is Lebanon, there is Iran, there are multiple players in the region who are not all that in love with Israel yet who desire to survive, which means forging peace with their neighbours as peace between enemies, although a bitter pill to swallow, is infinitely preferable to nuclear war and total destruction and extinction.
If Israel feels forced to annihilate her neighbours via nuclear strikes at some future point, she will not celebrate the next day and scream and yell jubilantly. Rather, most Israelis will come to feel deep and profound spiritual suffering as they come to mourn the loss of the Lebanese people, the loss of the Iranians and the loss of the Palestinians as, despite the propaganda and bad press, Israelis are people just like you, just like me, and very few of them would smile, cheer and hoot if they witnessed the extinction of Arabs from planet Earth.
How many Jews are peace activists? How many are pacifistic vegans? How many are demanding a ceasefire? How many fund Amnesty International and similar organisations? The answer is untold thousands, untold hundreds of thousands….
If Jews wanted to exterminate Arabs and Muslims, why does conscription exist in Israel?
Surely if Jews, as a race and tribe, desired to annihilate all their neighbours, rather than peacefully co-exist with them in a spirit of brotherhood, forced military service for every young man and young woman would not be necessary as all these folk would have enthusiastically signed up for military service….
Jews wants peace, but what do the Western “saviours”, anti-Semites and “benevolent” internationalist NGOs want and expect to occur as a result of bankrolling the Hamas regime via endless aid and visceral support?
It seems that peace is not their end goal.
Either they are blind fools who are suckers for an emotive underdog story and miss their radical, hedonistic student days of irresponsibility and punching Daddy on the nose or they knew that by siding with Hamas, by funding Hamas and propping up Gaza, their actions will directly lead to a murderous militant incursion into Israel.
Hamas cannot protect Gaza or Gazans; this is now clear to all, just as it is similarly clear that Israeli resolve and willingness to sacrifice their soldiers, resources and international reputation in the pursuit of self-defence and protection of her citizens is unwavering.
Victory for Gaza is not the enlargement of the conflict. This is not the hour to muse about reforming the failed Ottoman Empire or dragging peaceful third-party nations such as Egypt or Lebanon into the quarrel started by Hamas some months back as they desperately sought to pull attention away from the Taiwan dispute and the Ukrainian conflict in order to shine a light on their cause and generational struggle.
Victory for Gaza is new elections. Victory for Gaza is standing alone, independently, and refusing to accept foreign aid or foreign help.
Understand, if Hamas wasn’t spending hundreds of millions of dollars on bullets, bombs, rockets, cable ties to bind the hands of child hostages and underground digging (which is a hugely expensive and resource-intensive endeavour) there would exist no poverty in Gaza, no humanitarian aid crises in Gaza, no inequality in Gaza and no shame in Gaza either.
If my neighbour waves to me from his garden whilst holding a sieve, I will smile at him and wave back whatever his tribe; yet if he holds an AK-47 I will not smile and wave, my reaction will be far different.
An opportunity exists in this hour for Gazans and Palestinians in general to blame two groups of people for their current situation: NGOs and the minority of sociopathic and psychopathic militants in their midst who care not if Jews or Arabs are killed as a result of their actions, which is why they continually prod and provoke Israel and the IDF, as they hate humanity full stop, just as most of those who donate money to Gaza hate Jews full stop.
Israel will not be destroyed. Israel will not surrender.
Israel is not hiding in tunnels but is entering Gaza and getting justice for her people whilst ensuring Gaza becomes eternally demilitarised, which, despite not seeming fair to the radical socialists on the left who demand that every Palestinian be armed with an AK-47, will ensure a brighter, hopeful and democratic future for all Palestinians.
I remind Gazans that they chose Hamas to govern them.
I remind Gazans that for eighteen years they tolerated living under Hamas and following Hamas.
And I remind Gazans that despite Hamas invading Israel, killing and allegedly raping many innocent Jews and kidnapping many more who were paraded like trophies in a barbaric and animalistic fashion through Gaza, few if any Gazans are now openly calling for a change of regime or for new elections.
It is hard to feel sorry for folk who seem hell-bent on slitting their own throats, which is what all Gazans do when they continue believing the absurd notion that via a few rockets, AK-47s and kidnapping-centred terror attacks they’ll suddenly be raised up, rather than razed to the ground.
One could callously say, ‘Palestinians voted for Hamas, so they deserve to be brutally hurt after Hamas’ atrocities, which some fools in the West try to excuse to their eternal shame,’ yet we must not forget these people and this culture, which all should desire to be saved from absolute destruction and ruination, and I urge folk to support Gazans but not by sending money, which will be used to buy more weapons, which will be fired in the direction of Jewish children partying together as they attempt to achieve happiness, friendship and love. Rather, we must help the Palestinians by forcing their leaders to govern peacefully, without Western aid, without Western support, without another penny, without another cent until there are no more weapons, until there are new elections—until beautiful peace reigns once more.
We forgave the German people for voting for Hitler. We must also forgive the Palestinians for voting for Hamas. We must not punish the Palestinians for the actions of Hamas, for the actions of the few.
Jews today are driving Mercedes Benz cars and Germans today are holidaying in Tel Aviv, despite the horrors of the 1940s in Europe, which massively eclipse the conflict in Israel Palestine in 2024, so don’t believe that Jews and Arabs will hate one another for an eternity as history proves that the current hate and the current conflict are but a temporally blip.
So long as foreign militaries and NGOs stay well away from these two neighbours all will be well and the hate and fear and rage and recriminations will all blessedly soon be behind us as we move forward as independent people, independent nations in a peaceful world of mutual respect, a world that is more than big enough for both Jews and Arabs, but not for NGOs.
In three months of the siege of Gaza, more than 23,000 people have been killed according to Hamas.
Israel, who withdrew from Gaza in 2005 and removed Israeli settlers, didn’t want this chaos, violence and bloodshed, but the radical Jew-haters in the West did who send billions to Gaza and it is these people and the pro-Palestine NGOs who I hold personally responsible for the loss of life of every Gazan as well as every Israeli in this conflict.
These people knew Hamas were buying and stockpiling weapons as they continued sending hundreds of tons of food aid and medical aid into Gaza; they knew they were enabling future attacks on Israel. These outsiders are all complicit in these deaths and this ongoing suffering, yet they have the temerity and cheek to march and protest in 2024, waving Palestinian flags and colours, despite being the cause of so many Palestinian deaths due to their support for the Hamas regime for almost two decades.
Those who sent wheat to fill bellies in Gaza and school books to educate young minds in Gaza deliberately or inadvertency enabled rockets, bullets, paragliders, blindfolds and cable ties to be purchased by Hamas.
If there was no aid there would be no rockets, no kidnappings, no paragliders, no tunnel networks and no deadly stockpiles of rockets, which are indiscriminately fired towards civilians every day.
Stop the aid. Stop the war. Start the healing. Save Gaza.