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The entire mainstream media led in particular by the NY Times and the Washington Post have been harshly and virulently anti Israel for many decades. The Times is by far the worst though. If anyone expected the sheer horror of the Hamas atrocities of October 7 to change this they were sadly mistaken. Of course now they are all objectively pro Hamas because everyone knows what Israel's failure to continue the war to its finish means, Hamas continues to rule Gaza, UNWRA comes back to provide it support, Hamas recovers and this happens again. There is no middle ground. That journals that claim to be serious report Hamas invented claims while expressing total skepticism over the claims of the legitimate Israeli Defense Force is of course a stunning horror but it is not a surprise. That anyone who professes to be a Zionist will subscribe to this swill is something that cannot be explained.

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IF May Suggest (Long but worth the time)

Building a Decent Gaza

Daniel Pipes

Middle East Quarterly

Spring 2024

https://www.meforum.org/65584/to-build-a-decent-gaza

(Snip)

Conclusion

Israel can reasonably expect to find a substantial cohort of Gazans ready to work with it to establish a new authority in Gaza that begins to return them to normal life. These Gazans will take on a wide range of tasks: policing, utilities, municipal services, administration, communications, teaching, urban planning, and so on.

While this may sound like wishful thinking, it bears recalling that Gazans not that long ago led decent lives under Israeli rule. Gaza and the West Bank in the 1970s, recounts historian Efraim Karsh, "constituted the fourth fastest-growing economy in the world—ahead of such 'wonders' as Singapore, Hong Kong, and Korea, and substantially ahead of Israel itself." Medicine, electricity, schools, literacy—all flourished. Gazans benefited from refrigerators, clean running water, and much else. Gazans are not immune to the charms of normal life.

Unfortunately, Israel failed to cultivate relations with relatively friendly Gazans and lacked decent Gazan partners in its first period of rule, 1967-2005. Then, in an act of historic stupidity, it handed the territory to the genocidal Yasir Arafat. In a further mistake, it not only permitted the even more horrific Hamas to control Gaza after 2007 but encouraged external funders such as Qatar.

Call the new entity the Revitalized Palestinian Authority if you like, but it must have no connection whatsoever to the execrable Palestinian Authority that rules parts of the West Bank. Nor should Arab or international bodies take part in its administration.

Decent Gaza means tough Israeli military rule overseeing a tough police state along the lines of what exists in Egypt and Jordan, countries where one can lead a normal life so long as one stays out of trouble and never, ever criticizes the ruler. Gaza can become decent, not at war with its neighbor and economically viable. Will Israelis have the acumen and stamina to make this happen? Can they retrieve something positive out of tragedy?

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I like Daniel Pipes. I question whether a single Gazan will agree to collaborate with Israel in the manner Pipes suggests. It would be a death sentence. Hamas may not be in charge of the territory but terrorists will still be there ready to punish "traitors". As for not being that long ago, it may as.well have been a century. Almost two decades of total indoctrination into the Palestinian death cult by the UNWRA/Hamas "education system".

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"Is the Washington Post pro-Hamas?"

If They are not, They're REAL CLOSE.

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