Nobody wants the Gazans. President Trump, not long after re-assuming office, floated an idea that involved resetting all the “Palestinian” residents of the Gaza Strip and redeveloping that whole area, which would make sense to a real estate guy. But there’s a problem: Nobody in the Muslim world wants the Gazans.
And, when you think about it a little, it’s plain to see why.
Foreign ministers from Muslim nations on Saturday rejected calls by U.S. President Donald Trump to empty the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population and backed a plan for an administrative committee of Palestinians to govern the territory to allow reconstruction to go ahead.
Meanwhile, Hamas reported “positive signals” in talks with Egyptian and Qatari mediators in Cairo on starting negotiations on the delayed second phase of its ceasefire deal with Israel. Spokesman Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua gave no details, but said the group is willing to start talks and its delegation has been discussing the means to do so.
Hamas is always reporting “positive signals” while they’re losing, but all parties involved in this should be keenly aware that Hamas only views such ceasefire agreements as time to re-arm, recruit, and re-train for the next attack.
Israel isn’t sanguine about West Bank’s Palestinian Authority being involved, either:
The ministers at the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) gathering supported an Egyptian-backed proposal that an administrative committee replace Hamas in governing Gaza. The committee would work “under the umbrella” of the Palestinian Authority, based in the West Bank. Israel has rejected the PA having any role in Gaza, but has not put forward an alternative for post-war rule.
The foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Britain said in a joint statement that they welcome the Arab initiative for a Gaza reconstruction plan, calling it “a realistic path.” They added that “Hamas must neither govern Gaza nor be a threat to Israel anymore” and they support the central role for the PA.
The European foreign ministers are correct in pointing out that Hamas should neither govern Gaza nor be a threat to Israel, but it’s likely they have badly underestimated how difficult that outcome will be to attain.
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Hamas has run Gaza since Gazans voted them into power in 2007. For 18 years, they have held Gaza in an iron fist: The education system teaches not reading, writing, and math but antisemitism, hate, and violence. Schoolchildren in Gaza are literally taught that killing Jews is something to aspire to. This hatred, this vile cancer, has been in place for the better part of a generation. This isn’t something that can be easily remedied.
It’s a small wonder nobody in the rest of the Muslim world wants these people. Hamas has poisoned a generation of Gazans, and resettlement may no longer be an option. Indeed, it’s hard to see a viable option; what do you do with a population that has been taught since childhood that hate and murder are noble aspirations?
The current conflict will not truly end until Hamas is no longer a factor. But Hamas’ roots in Gaza run very deep. Resettlement may be one way to deal with this, but the Muslim world sees what’s going on in Gaza, and even they want no part of it.
At this juncture, it’s hard to see a solution. This is what hate has wrought, and it may be another generation before this is resolved, if indeed it ever is.
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