25A026 The Plight of the Gazans by Jim Davies, 7/1/2025

It's very largely self-created, and is not at all a "genocide" as alleged by the hysterical Left on every campus in the West; but it's real. In its search for Hamas killers to capture or execute, Israel's IDF is shuttling the Gaza population from one end of its crowded strip of land to the other, and back again, and the exhaustion is intense. One result is that Hamas membership has not reduced; as 20,000 or more have been killed, another 20,000 have been recruited. I suspect the death rate will rise, and no end is in sight.

Was the problem self-created? - yes. This population was corralled into Gaza because of its intense and evidently ineradicable, violent  hostility to Jews; they were given a small strip of land and allowed to fashion their own future. They abused this opportunity from 2007 onwards, by using materials smuggled mainly from Iran, to build a network of tunnels and fire rockets at random into civilian areas of Israel. The Jew-hatred, that had caused the enclave to appear, continued and got worse. Then came the atrocity of October 7th, 2023.

Is the IDF response a "genocide"? - absolutely not. If the Israelis had wished to liquidate all 2.3 million residents of Gaza (and that's what a genocide is) it could have done so easily by the end of 2023 by any of several available methods. It would then have earned the opprobrium that the world has poured on it anyway. But no such thing was done, and the IDF has tried hard to avoid killing civilians - an almost impossible task, given that Hamas declines to wear identifying marks or uniforms. Yet so far, 98% of Gazans remain alive. Some "genocide."

The remarkable thing is that virtually no Gazan has been invited to take refuge elsewhere in the Muslim world, nor has any requested such refuge. That is almost impossible to understand. When your home is destroyed and you're being worn down by frequent relocations from camp to camp, why not at least ask for shelter elsewhere? That failure suggests to me that these people really have been so totally saturated with Jew-hatred that they would rather keep it and die, than emigrate and let the hatred dissipate, maybe. That is surely an extreme, if not unique, form of fanaticism. Note, too, that it applies even to families with young children. Where else in the world would parents not even try to take their children to a safer place?

Jew-hatred is the distinguishing mark of Nazis. There are plenty of fascist governments in the world (all of them, I'd say) but only the German fascists of 1933-45 also persecuted Jews. That was the Nazi Party. So Gazans are fascist because they believe in government, and Nazis because they also want to kill Jews. I thought Nazism had been extinguished in 1945; I was wrong. Those Germans elected Nazis to restore national pride and territory, but only a few voters had any strong prejudice against Jews; in Gaza, close to every man, woman and child is a Jew-hating Nazi. Gazans are like cultists, moreover; their Nazism is passionate, visceral, deeply ingrained by Hamas. Even forcibly relocating them to some other country (sub-Saharan Africa, anyone?) would not draw the poison, but possibly spread it. It's a very, very sad situation.

This deep hatred that permeates Gazans is collectivist, racist and powerfully turbocharged by their government, Hamas - whose monopoly schools teach kindergarten children to play at machine-gunning Jews or cutting their throats. The solution is the same as that for every other malfunction of human society: to eradicate the disease called "government"; and the only way I've seen to do that is to so re-educate everyone that all become disgusted by it and so decline to work for it. That's what TOLFA is for.

It can be done rapidly, but not overnight; a quarter century is needed. The last ones to reach that decision will in every society be those most deeply convinced that government is a good idea; and worldwide, Gazans may well be the worst of them and therefore among the last to liberate themselves. Alas, I see no quick fix.