1. On 9 September 2023, less than a month before the 7 October massacre and the war that followed, violent clashes broke out between hundreds of young Gazans and security guards from a Gaza travel agency licensed to issue visas to Turkey. Several youths were injured and the company's offices were damaged. The Association of Tourism and Travel Agents in Gaza (there was such a thing there) accused the travel agency of exploiting its monopoly on issuing visas to raise prices. What did the fuss start about?
Research published by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center on migration from the Gaza Strip since the Hamas takeover in 2007 indicates that some 300,19 young people have left Gaza. A month before the war, it was reported that some 83,<> Gazans applied for a visa to Turkey within one week, and more than <>,<> were waiting to receive it. Similar figures were cited in the Arab press by human rights organizations in Gaza. The direction: Turkey, and from there to Greece, Western Europe and Canada. The reasons listed: hopelessness among young people, lack of jobs among hundreds of thousands of university graduates; increase in unemployment and poverty rates; the collapse of the private sector due to the destruction of enterprises and companies; the soaring cost of living; lack of social care policy; The low level of service, especially mental health, and more.
"Hamas murders Gazans" // Documentation: IDF Spokesperson
2. Life in the Gaza Strip was not good even before the war, and certainly now, given the extent of the destruction of the dens of terror and murder. Hamas has established a theocracy in the Gaza Strip similar to Iran, which it serves. This means a life without civil and human rights, without freedom of expression, without education, except for a culture of death whose subjects were destined from birth to serve as cannon fodder for the realization of the sick lust for destruction of its leaders. The huge donations at the expense of European and American taxpayers were mostly stolen by senior Hamas figures, and the rest was used to build an underground city, shelter for murderers, and turn Gaza into a huge terror base, whose residents were meant to serve as living shields.
There is no hope in Gaza. Probably never was. Even if we assume that the illusions of Gaza's reconstruction will come true, there will be quite a few years during which Gazans will continue to live in tents as refugees. After that, they are expected to live in Third World conditions and cultivate one aspiration: the destruction of the State of Israel (an aspiration that will inevitably lead to wars, that is, further suffering, destruction and refugees).
3. Hamas' ideology continues the parent movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, and appears in the Hamas Charter, inspired by the organization's terrorists and collaborators from among the "non-involved" Gaza population, massacred our residents, raped our daughters, burned our children and parents alive, and cut off heads.
Two principles in the Charter, which are the raison d'être of its adherents: total commitment to the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews wherever they may be. It is no coincidence that a translated Arabic copy of Mein Kampf, an educational material for Hamas children, was found in Gaza. For them, Hitler is a role model. October 7 was a shocking demonstration of the genocide Hamas would have committed against us if it could. The same spirit exists in the Palestinian Authority; The difference is in ability and opportunities.
Israel will fight to eliminate Hamas, but totalitarian ideology will remain. It will ensure that this is what the residents of the Gaza Strip will suffer in the future: a culture of death, destruction, lust for murder, and above all, a willingness to be destroyed at the price of killing a small number of Jews.
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4 In such a situation, shouldn't we seriously think about helping the inhabitants there emigrate to another place, where they will start a new life, where children will go out in the morning to learn wisdom and science and life walks, rather than death and the love of evil? Tens of millions of refugees have moved to new places over the past 100 years and rebuilt their lives. Why has Germany accepted a million refugees from Syria over the past decade without the West vetoing it? We have not heard of an insistence on returning them to Syria. Overall, we have not heard similar cries for the 11 million refugees displaced in Syria. And what about the millions of Ukrainian refugees? These are examples that teach about the rule.
The UN has two refugee organizations – one for refugees from around the world, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the other for the Palestinians: the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). There are also different definitions of "who is a refugee". The Refugee Convention, on the basis of which the United Nations High Commissioner General for Refugees was established, stated that refugees are those who have been forced to flee their country due to political persecution or violation of their civil or political rights. Later, the concept of refugee was extended to those who fled due to war, violence and even economic damage that makes it impossible to impart education to children.
In contrast, UNRWA's definition of a Palestinian refugee is: someone whose "habitual place of residence was Palestine between 1 June 1946 and 15 May 1948, and who lost both his home and his means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict." Why is a stay of only two years enough to be considered a refugee, after all, the Palestinians claim to have lived here since time immemorial? A resident of Sudan, for example, who came here in 1943 to look for work and fled following the war, received Palestinian refugee status.
The status of refugees in the world ends once the refugees are resettled, and certainly does not pass on to future generations. Not so with UNRWA refugees – they pass on refugee status to future generations, even those who settled in other countries and received citizenship. Thus we reached the absurd number of more than 5 million Palestinian refugees.
All this stems not from concern for the refugees, but from the desire to fuel the fire of hatred towards Israel and to maintain the dream of the Palestinians to flood Israel and destroy it through what they call the "right of return." The UN is responsible for this disgrace. UNRWA did not help solve the refugee problem, but perpetuated it, perpetuating hatred of Israel in the process. Why is the fate of the Palestinians better than that of the rest of the world's refugees? In 2014, when ISIS was abusing the Yazidis and the world was standing by, I saw a picture of a Yazidi woman with a sign that read in English: "The problem of the Yazidi people is that our enemies are not Jews."
5. The war now creates a historic opportunity to change the region and the fate of the refugees. Changing the old concepts is not only about Israel's security doctrine, but about the future of the region. In the second half of the 19th century, Eastern European Jews lived in economic and social conditions similar to those of the residents of Gaza (the big difference was that they did not massacre their neighbors or launch terror and murder squads). As soon as the opportunity was given, the Jews moved to better places. The prohibition on discussing voluntary immigration of residents of the Gaza Strip stems from the mistaken belief that such an action might sound like "ethnic cleansing," and it is not!
We have two alternatives: a decent and dignified life in new places, far from Hamas influence, or continuing life in the Gaza Strip in poor conditions without hope. And we should not delude ourselves: even if we build luxury neighborhoods for Gazans, they will quickly deteriorate to the status of third world countries, because the ideology of the culture of death and destruction continues to exist. For now, hope lies outside Gaza.
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