The Palestinians need new leadership
22 December 2023
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After his extraordinary wartime trip to Tel Aviv, President Joe Biden and his staff have made new leadership for Palestinians a priority.
To create better lives for themselves and create their own country, Palestinians need to focus on what they must do and how they must change, not what others should do. The most important factor is to take back their government from Hamas and other terrorist groups, because:
A successful Palestinian country is not possible with Hamas or other terrorist groups in charge.
Hamas acts in its own best interest, not in the interest of Palestinians, as summarized here.
Hamas is eager to sacrifice the lives of Palestinians as long as it damages Israel and promotes antisemitism:
Hamas meticulously planned and prepared for a massacre of Israeli civilians on a scale that was highly likely to provoke Israel’s government into sending troops into Gaza, analysts said. Indeed, Hamas leaders have publicly expressed a willingness to accept heavy losses — potentially including the deaths of many Gazan civilians living under Hamas rule.
“Will we have to pay a price? Yes, and we are ready to pay it,” Ghazi Hamad, a member of the Hamas politburo, told Beirut’s LCBI television in an interview aired on Oct. 24. “We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs.”
Hamas was willing to accept such sacrifices as the price for kick-starting a new wave of violent Palestinian resistance in the region and scuttling efforts at normalizing relations between Israel and Arab states, according to current and former intelligence officials and counterterrorism experts.
“They were very clear-eyed as to what would happen to Gaza on the day after,” said a senior Israeli military official with access to sensitive intelligence, including interrogations with Hamas fighters and intercepted communications. “They wanted to buy their place in history — a place in the history of jihad — at the expense of the lives of many people in Gaza.” Washington Post.
Even now, as Palestinians scrounge for food and water in Gaza, Hamas sits on a rich trove of supplies.
New leadership will have a difficult task - it must govern a population that has normalized collaboration with Hamas by electing Hamas as its government, keeping it in power, allowing its children to be indoctrinated into hatred, sending their children to Hamas training camps, building weapons and tunnels for Hamas, allowing Hamas to use its schools, mosques, hospitals, ambulances and residential areas for military purposes and allowing themselves to be used as human shields for Hamas fighters.
It will be difficult for many Palestinians to accept the limitations of democratic rule in which change is slow and frustration and disappointment are common.
Any new government will struggle to limit the resurgence of terrorism by Hamas militants or its supporters within its borders, supported by the governments of Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Russia and other countries opposing democratic values.
New leadership is also necessary for Palestinians outside the Middle East. In the U.S. and elsewhere, Palestinian “leaders” have done little to improve the day to day lives of Palestinians and have been content to spew hatred of Israel and Jews.
Palestinians in the U.S. and elsewhere have the talent and experience to lead Gaza and the West Bank out of terrorism and toward a democratic society. However, it will be dangerous for the individuals involved and it will likely take years to decades before any Palestinian territory resembles a Western democracy. Nevertheless, the time to start is now.
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Thanks, Dick.
Excellent