Commentary

When I heard that U.S. President Joe Biden authorized the release of $100 million of U.S. taxpayer money to support “humanitarian relief” in Gaza, I was shocked. The blood of the Americans killed in Israel by Hamas was hardly dry. Almost all of the Americans kidnapped by Hamas and held in Gaza are still in captivity. And we decide we’re sending them money? AMERICAN money?

I know people are trying to draw a line between Hamas and the average people of Gaza. But they also need to remember that Hamas is in power in Gaza because the people of Gaza elected them. And Hamas would be in charge of the entire West Bank as well, if it were not for a concerted effort between the Palestinian Authority, Israel, Jordan, and numerous other interested parties to keep them out. But even if it were possible to wholly separate Hamas from the people who elected and sustain them, Gaza is, simply, not our problem. It is not the responsibility of the United States to clean up all of the world’s bad decisions. We’ve given ~~Gaza~~ Hamas hundreds of millions of dollars over many years, and we end up with rockets and bombs, with kidnapping and murders. We end up with ... this:

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