LOS ANGELES.–President Joe Biden, 81, finds himself unable to placate Arab American groups that think that his administration takes a one-sided approach to the Israeli-Hamas War. Arab groups led by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) have sympathy for Hamas, a ruthless terror group plundering the Gaza Strip of all its donor wealth since seizing the Mediterranean territory June 14, 2007 from the West Bank-based Palestinian territory. Hamas received over $100 billion in donor aid largely to rebuilt Gaza after unending uprisings and wars with Israel. Yet no matter how much Gaza struggles for water and electricity, Hamas leaders manage to plunder billions from the coffers. Speaking on behalf of Gaza citizens, 62-year-old former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh stole $4 billion from Gaza, so did 68-year-old former leader in exile Khaled Meshaal [$ 4 billion] and 72-year-old Abu Marzuk [$3 billion.].
Where’s all the outrage at Hamas looking of Gaza, stealing oil-rich Gulf State donor cash to go live in luxury in Doha, Qatar. All the fake PR is aimed at keeping Hamas in power, forcing Israel to give up its Gaza campaign before neutralizing Hamas fighters and driving its 61-yer-old leader Yahya Sinwar and his 47-year-old military chief Mohammed Deif into exile. So far, instead of battling Israel, Sinwar and Deif remain holed up in Gaza’s underground tunnels hoping to survive another day. Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant confirmed that the last remaining pockets of Hamas militants are in the southern-most Rafah region, next to the Egyptian border. Hamas doesn’t like to talk about Egypt coordinating with Israel to prevent Gaza
residents from fleeing to Egypt. Haniyeh, Meshaal and Marzuk like to talk about their Arab brothers but Egypt wants no part.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 74, has his quiet relations with Egypt’s Abdel Fattah El-Sisis and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Both want all the trade and technology help it can get from Israel, a modern, European-like democracy. Imagine that, Israel transformed a desert wasteland into a European style democracy with the most advanced technology, science and medicine in the world. Hamas tells Palestinians daily they will conquer Israel and return it back to the Bedouin Arabs who lived under Ottoman and British control for over 500 years. Where was the Holy Land’s economic development back then, in the stone age? Hamas knows it can’t defeat Israel, it only pretends it has the backing of the Arab world, something no legitimate Arab state wants. If the truth were told, they all want Hamas gone forever.
From the Lebanon border in the north to Rafah in the south, Hamas has been neutralized with only pockets of militants left in Rafah. “Hamas has ceased to function as a military organization in most parts of the Gaza Strip. Its commanders are hiding in tunnels. It has lost its command and control capabilities, the battalion frameworks in most parts of the Gaza Strip have ceased to function and the information received from terrorist interrogations attest to an organization that is falling apart,” Gallant said. Gallant confirms what Netanyahu has been saying that Israel’s last offensive in Rafah should liberate Gaza from Hamas in fairly short order. Yet billionaire criminals like Haniyeh, Meshaal and Marzuk live in luxury in Doha, knowing the grand larceny on Gaza residents. World leaders, even quietly, should start making arrangements for Hamas to get out of Gaza.
If you listen to pro-Palestinian networks like CNN, they have all their sympathies for Gaza residents but expose none of Hamas corruption that led to Haniyeh, Meshaal and Marzuk stealing billions from the Gaza Strip since 2007. Ailing 87-year-old West Bank leader Mahmoud Abbas is too old and frail to run a joint West Bank and Gaza operation. Once Hamas is removed from Gaza, it’s going to take a caretaker government without any ties to terrorism to supervise the rebuilding of Gaza. “We see evidence of this every day, including over the last few days,” said Gallant. “We operate everywhere, every day, in order to prevent our enemies form gaining strength and in order to make it clear to anyone who acts against us—all over the Middle East—that the price for action against Israel will be a heavy one,” Gallant said warning Iran and Hezbollah.
Israel has done what was seen as impossible, rooting out Hamas from the Gaza Strip. With only a few pockets of resistances remaining, Netanyahu is well on his way to liberating the Gaza Strip for one of the true brutal terror groups on the planet. For 17 years, Hamas has plundered the Gaza Strip for its own selfish gains, leaving its current and former leadership stealing billions from the Palestinian people. All the pro-Palestinian groups protesting against Israel, where’s the outrage against Hamas for looting the seaside colony to bankruptcy? Pro-Palestinian news networks don’t have the honesty to expose Hamas corruption and see the sacrifices made by Israel to give Palestinians a future. Once Hamas leaves Gaza, only then will Palestinians have a chance at a better life built on peace and mutual respect, something that’s eluded the Holy Land.
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John M. Curtis write politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
