A book by Hitler is discovered in the house of Ahmed Samarah (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON UNIT)
Posted on 07/22/2024 7:37:18 AM PDT by SJackson
Most Gazans approve of Hamas’s decision to launch the war on October 7 and would prefer Hamas rule over the US-backed Palestinian Authority
A book by Hitler is discovered in the house of Ahmed Samarah (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON UNIT)
In June, Fadi al-Wadiya, a physiotherapist from Doctors Without Borders, was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza. Doctors Without Borders quickly took to social media, condemning the “abhorrent” attack in multiple languages in a post that received millions of views and thousands of shares.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) responded by publishing photographic evidence that al-Wadiya was an operative in the missile program of the terrorist group Islamic Jihad in Gaza and therefore, a legitimate target. He was a physiotherapist, but he was also a terrorist.
Upon returning from a trip to the region last month, we have been struck by the inclination among Americans to assume that Hamas represents only a narrow slice of Gaza’s population. Many seem unaware, at best — or purposely ignoring, at worst — of the extent to which Hamas has its tentacles entrenched into Gazan society. That is why a sustainable peace will depend on the creation of a deradicalization campaign that helps to erode Hamas’s base of support.
Palestinian polling from June suggests that the majority of Gazans are still satisfied with Hamas and that the level of satisfaction has gradually increased since last year. Similarly, most Gazans approve of Hamas’s decision to launch the war on October 7 and would prefer Hamas rule over the US-backed Palestinian Authority (PA). Shortly after the Hamas massacre, videos surfaced of Gazan residents cheering at the sight of wounded or dead Israeli hostages arriving on trucks and motorbikes.
In early June, the IDF rescued four hostages from Gaza. Outrage swirled on social media when a prominent Gaza doctor and his renowned journalist son were killed during the raid. Except, it turns out, the doctor and journalist were actually the ones holding these hostages on behalf of Hamas.
It gets worse.
While visiting an IDF base, we watched raw footage from the October 7 attacks that had not been publicly released due to its gruesome, disturbing nature. After Hamas terrorists blew open border fences and entered Israel with rifles, grenades, missile-launchers, and anti-tank explosives, average Gazans then filed into the Israeli border communities to rape, murder, and loot. A mob of these Gazans, lacking the wartime weapons of Hamas’s military wing, killed and beheaded an agricultural worker at a kibbutz with a garden hoe.
During our trip, we also visited an IDF unit that collected intelligence from the scenes of the October 7 attack and from Gaza. The retrieved items included schoolbooks that deny the legitimacy of Israel, promote violence against its Jewish citizens, and feature games and puzzles that teach antisemitism to young Gazans.
No good can come from a blind insistence that there’s a small number of bad Hamas leaders, separate and distinct from some two million Gaza residents who just want a better life. That’s just not the reality on the ground, where Hamas is a terrorist group, a civil government, and a religious movement all rolled into one.
Frighteningly, Hamas’s tools for indoctrinating children parallel scenes from Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, which features books and games from early 1930s Germany similarly teaching kids to hate Jews. One Israeli speaker told us that the Germans didn’t stop hating Jews after World War II out of the goodness of their hearts. Rather, occupying Allied personnel forced de-nazification upon them.
Untangling the web of extremism
That’s where the international community can help: by mobilizing the right people, organizations and governments to begin a deradicalization effort in Gaza and detangle the web of power and influence Hamas has built.
In theory, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provides food, healthcare, education, and other basic civil services to Gazans registered as refugees in 1948 and to their descendants, would lead such a deradicalization effort. But UNRWA cannot be trusted to carry out this task.
According to Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, at least 12 UNRWA employees participated in the October 7 massacre, at least 30 more assisted, and over 10% of the agency’s employees in Gaza have ties to terror. Terrorists in Gaza have repeatedly used UNRWA facilities as bases for their operations. In February, the IDF discovered a Hamas data center hidden underneath UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters.
Breaking UNRWA’s monopoly on services in the enclave is critical.
These should be disaggregated and assigned to other UN organizations that have a global mandate. UNRWA, by contrast, was created solely for Palestinians, employs almost exclusively Palestinians, and has been co-opted by an extreme version of the Palestinian national narrative. That needs to change.
THE UNITED States can help. Our colleagues at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies published a report earlier this year that describes how.
For example, the US Agency for International Development and the US International Development Finance Corporation can centralize aid to Gaza; vet employees of the UN and other international organizations working in Gaza (such as Doctors Without Borders) to ensure their staff have no ties to terror; and help build a sustainable development model that aims for independence from aid. In so doing, they would reject the UNRWA model that perpetuates the conflict by passing entitlements from generation to generation.
Gaza needs a smart and purposeful investment and a radical deradicalization agenda.
If Germans moving past their hatred in the 1940s was hard, what needs to happen in Gaza may be tougher – but not impossible.
Zephaniah 2:4-5 NASBS
For Gaza will be abandoned And Ashkelon a desolation; Ashdod will be driven out at noon And Ekron will be uprooted. [5] Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast, The nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; And I will destroy you So that there will be no inhabitant.
After Hamas is gone, how will Israel deradicalize Palestinians in Gaza?
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One head shot at a time.
GET OUT OF OUR COUNTRY! ... imho
the tunnels will need to be filled in safely and this will be a big job because the stupid suicidal Isareli government leaders let the Arab terrorists dig hundreds of miles of tunnels over at least a 15 year period.
praying that the Jews finally learn that defense means eliminating the enemy not feeding, supplying, and funding those evil evil evil rabid Satanic demons sworn to murder you
the Jews are great at so many wonderful endeavors but Lord help them they are totally incompetent at self-governance
My kinda logic!
They are vulnerable to any terrorist group wanting power. Maybe they agree with the terrorists.
But with the billions of dollars in international money, the palis could have built the foundations of a very nice country with a modern infrastructure and modern civilization.
Yet, they chose it squander the money on tunnels and bombs so that they could kill Jews.
Look at other countries in the region. Pretty much the same except for Israel.
This is a problem with no simple solution.
But first Israel must eliminate Hamas' organization in Gaza, only their government doesn't want to because then it will have to make a decision on how to rule the place. So it is carefully refraining from fully conquering Gaza.
While this has some political entertainment value, I see no reason why we Americans should continue giving Israel billions of dollars not to finish the conquest job while their government dithers. I'd return annual aid to the pre-October 7 level.
Re-Education = “Fish are friends, not food.”
Unless they follow the lead of Sherman and extinguish the fighting class or follow the lead of Truman and wreck massive civilian causalities they will not pacify the Westbank and will not rule.
Sherman had it most right. He said, my recollection of this quote is rough, “until every southern man who wishes to fight is killed there will be no peace” he feared a period of southern guerrilla warfare.
How did the allies de-Nazify Germany.
All but the most hard-core Nazi supporters simply pretended that they never supported Hitler, had absolutely no idea what was going on, sometimes within sight and smell of the camps.
There’s a book, ‘Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself” that rather gruesomely describes the mindset of Germans in late spring of ‘45.
They're probably too smart for their own good. Bernie Sanders is a great example of that. He thinks we can all live in utopia if we embrace communism. And Israel was founded as a socialist nation. But now they're getting better.
Scripture says you cannot de-radicalize the Arab.
True, and furthermore, anti- semitism had been on its way out - compared with most other Western nations- until World War One. Sadly, you cannot ask Rabbi
Leo Trepp, DD, any more, as he passed away in 2010 (my parents met him once, and were deeply shaken by his erudition and his gigantic human kindness. His heart was truly Texas-sized😀
And you know, unfortunately, how wrong it all went after 1918…
Exactly. We have a road map from post-WW II Germany and Japan.
But the problem here is that Hamas and all of the islamo-fascists will never officially surrender as the governments of Japan and Germany did. So essentially the war will continue even though Hamas capabilities have been significantly degraded.
Even if there was an official surrender, we can expect the situation would bear closer parallels to post-2023 Iraq. And we all know what happened there.
Unfortunately there are only two solutions:
(1) relocate all the current residents (this would be almost impossible as it would feed into the “ethnic cleansing” narrative.
(2) turn the entire area into a parking lot (this would be even more impossible as it would feed into the “genocide” narrative)
(3) cut off the head of the snake by defanging Iran. While this would certainly leave Shia radicals throughout the middle east, they would lack funding and resources.
I don’t see 3 as realistic under Trump (who is very anti-war) or Kamala (who is pro-Hamas). that said I expect Trump will give the IDF a green light to do whatever is necessary.
It is a complete waste of $$$ to spend 1 dime rebuilding Gaza in the absence of a viable de-nazification program.
I‘ve heard of the book. Not just top Nazis killed themselves, others simply wished to escape from the permanent stress, the shame and the general fear of getting tortured and slain. Better be dead quickly…
I only read maybe half of it. Way too depressing. Fathers leading their wives and children weighed down with rocks to drown. It wasn’t only Hitler the Goebbels who decided that life without National Socialism wasn’t worth living.
It really went wrong in 1914. Then got seriously worse in 1917. By 1918, things were just rolling along.
Sure. Many who killed themselves had no „factual reason“ to take their own lives, as they had not been directly involved in the crimes of Nazism, but fear needn’t always be founded in rationale to have devastating effects.
A very large group of the suicidees were also girls and women who had been violated. They could not live with their shame.
Very sorry, but actually I had been talking about antisemitism in Germany before World War One, and after it.
In a perfect world, ther would have been a compromise peace in 1916, I think, with a long, concise peace congress, similar to that of Vienna congress one hundred and one years earlier.
But God was not with humankind this time 😭
A very large group of the suicidees were also girls and women who had been violated.
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