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20 years ago today. Extremely important to remember that Pressure from the International Community told Israel to withdraw from Gaza in 2005. Jews ripped from their homes by the Israeli government and their land given up. They were told to do this on the premise that the Palestinians would...

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18 years ago today, Hamas staged a military coup and violently took over Gaza. But to understand how it got to that point, we need to go back a little bit. Gaza was a part of the Ottoman Empire for centuries, and later, the British mandate, and in 1948, was under Egyptian control. In 1967, in the defensive Six-Day War, Israel seized over the Gaza Strip intending to hand it over in future peace negotiations. In 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza and handed control over to the Palestinian people. While the move wasn't part of a formal peace agreement, it reflected the broader Land for Peace thinking. Israel gives land in exchange for peaceful living with its neighbors. This worked relatively well with Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula and with Jordan. Many Israelis, me included, hoped that Gaza would become a model for Palestinian self-rule and a step towards a peaceful Middle East. Then in 2006, came the Palestinian legislative elections. I remember the warnings very clearly. The United States, European leaders, Israel, even the United Nations, everyone cautioned the Palestinians against allowing Hamas, a jihadi terrorist organization which aims to enact an Islamist caliphate to run for elections. We all knew what Hamas was. Their founding charter openly calls for the destruction of Israel and for the murder of Jews. Now, allowing Hamas to participate in the Palestinian elections is like letting the KKK or a neo-Nazi group to appear on the ballot and pretend that they're just another political party. They're not. But they ran anyway and they won, narrowly, 74 out of 132 seats. Most Palestinians weren't voting for terror. They were voting actually against the corruption and dysfunction of the Palestinian Authority, but Hamas saw the outcome very differently. Ismail Haniyeh was appointed prime minister and a unity government was supposed to be formed, but Hamas had no intention of governing responsibly or sharing power. Hamas refused to recognize Israel, stop its violence, or accept previous agreements, and in response, the international community cut off their fundings. Tensions quickly escalated between Hamas and Fatah, which was the political party that controlled most of the Palestinian Authority's governing institutions and security forces, and on June 10th, 2007, gun battles broke out across Gaza. Hamas turned its weapons against their own people and launched a bloody coup against the Palestinian Authority security forces. Political opponents were dragged through the streets, thrown from rooftops, and executed, obviously without trial. That's when Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, got his nickname, the Butcher of Khan Yunis. Four days later, on June 14th, Hamas took full control of Gaza and began imposing their version of Sharia law. Hamas destroyed Gaza. They received billions of dollars in international aid over the years, but instead of investing in hospitals, schools, jobs, they used that money to create the most fortified piece of land on Earth, build an elaborated terror tunnel system, and stock up on ammunitions, rockets, and bombs. Since taking power, they've held the people of Gaza hostage while launching endless attacks on Israeli civilians. It didn't have to be this way. Gaza could've become the next Singapore or Dubai. It's a beautiful coastal city with so much potential, but Hamas chose jihadism over jobs and terror over technology. And on October 7th, 2023, Hamas showed the entire world what it had been working on, and it was not a Palestinian state. The suffering in Gaza is not the result of Israel. It is the result of Hamas. The Palestinian people never asked for this. They didn't vote for a dictatorship. Hamas took over Gaza by force and they've ruled it with fear ever since. So if you care about Palestinians, if you care about peace, you should be calling to free Palestine, but not from Israel. You should be calling to free Palestine from Hamas.

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The word "genocide" requires a specific intent to destroy the Palestinian people in whole or in part as such. In other words, as we've seen from real genocides in history—the Holocaust, the Hutus against the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Armenian Genocide—you have a top-down architecture from the governing regime to destroy, eliminate from the face of the earth, the people in question. In the Holocaust there were 12 million Jews remaining after the six or seven years of the Holocaust. Before the Holocaust, there were 18 million Jews. That's 6 million Jews that were murdered in six or seven years. In Gaza, it's important to remember that the proponents of the genocide myth don't believe that there's only been one genocide since October 7th. They have claimed on five separate occasions that Israel has perpetrated five separate genocides against the Palestinians of Gaza to wipe them off the face of the earth since Israel withdrew in 2005. Some of these involved situations where Hamas attacked Israel, killed a few Jews. Israel did a reprisal. Maybe a few Palestinians were killed. That was called a genocide. But here's the number discrepancy. When Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, there were 1 million Palestinians there. Despite having five supposed separate genocides perpetrated against them in the 20 years since, I think most of the numbers from the CIA, the Israelis, and even the Gaza Health Ministry agree the population has more than doubled. There is over 2.2 million Gazans in the area today. Either Israel hasn't committed any genocide, or we're to believe that the country with F-35s, nuclear weapons, and one of the most sophisticated armies and air forces the world has ever known has been the most inept genocidal regime in the history of the planet.

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