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What’s Next For Gaza (Nothing Good!)
"They're going to disarm. If they don't disarm, we'll disarm them." (Narrator: They're not going to
You are not wrong, it will probably be worse, disease, famine, reporters will be there trying to one up each other…
It’s Qatar’s billions that motived Trump.
Haiti might be indicative of where Gaza is headed. Haiti is a failed state and nobody talks about this anymore. The UN-backed multinational security force is ineffectual and Doctors Without Borders just closed the medical facility in Port-au-Prince.
Nobody in the Arab world wants Gaza. If Israel wants Gaza it would have to be depopulated. That is not going to happen. Haiti is an apt analogy.
With all of the US’s attempts at nation building over the last decades, you might have thought we would have started with Haiti as a proof of concept. It’s relatively small and isolated as nations go and it’s right next door. The fact that Haiti today is as bad and maybe worse than it’s ever been is living proof that no one knows how to nation build from ashes. Looks like Trump’s Nobel is a long ways off.
I read this today, from Michael Oren, the former Israeli Ambassador to the US: “France calls execution of 33 innocent Palestinians “particularly concerning.” That is, not outrageous, deplorable, or even reprehensible, but merely concerning. When Israel accidentally kills civilians, France calls it a war crime. When Hamas shoots civilians in cold blood, France is merely disturbed. So France manages to be anti-Palestinian and antisemitic all at once.”