Posted on 05/02/2024 6:34:41 AM PDT by Starman417
Biden has said and done a lot of colossally stupid things. We now have one more for the pile, and it's a biggie.
He plans to import Palestinians from Gaza. This is stupid beyond belief. Now for some background.
Back in 2005 Israel departed from Gaza
On September 12, 2005, Israel completed its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip, as the last IDF soldiers left the coastal area after 38 years of Israeli presence.In 2006 elections were held in Gaza and Hamas won a plurality of the vote and now fully controls Gaza. It has not held another election after that. Since then, Hamas has instigated four wars against Israel. Billions of dollars for relief have poured into Gaza since 2006. Hamas has loads of cash but spends its money on weapons and war while poverty reigns among its people.The disengagement plan was put forward by then prime minister Ariel Sharon to "lead to a better security, political, economic and demographic situation," according to the text of the plan. Sharon hoped that the plan would reduce friction with the growing Palestinian population in the Strip.
Over 9,000 Israeli citizens living in 25 settlements were evicted from the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria in the West Bank as part of the plan, with Israel withdrawing all of its forces from Gaza and redeploying along new deployment lines.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas attacked Israel.The unemployment rate in Gaza is 47% and more than 80% of its population lives in poverty, according to the United Nations. Hamas, however, has funded an armed force of thousands equipped with rockets and drones and built a vast web of tunnels under Gaza. Estimates of its annual military budget range from $100 million to $350 million, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources.
As the U.S. House and Senate will be asking in separate hearings Wednesday and Thursday, where does all that cash come from?
Since coming to power in the Gaza Strip 17 years ago, Hamas has filled its coffers with hundreds of millions in international aid, overt and covert injections of cash from Iran and other ideological partners, as well as cryptocurrency, taxes, extortion and smuggling, according to current and former U.S. officials and regional experts.
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America is done. There is NO going back and anyone who thinks different is delusional.
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