The U.S. Owes Gaza Nothing

If the ruling party of Gaza doesn’t care about what happens to its populace, why are foreign nations expected to care more than them?

President Trump’s first Oval Office guest of his second term was to visit with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Among the issues the pair discussed: a destroyed Gaza* and what to do with the people displaced there.

I see no reason why that is either a U.S. or Israeli concern. Gazans overwhelmingly voted for Hamas — who remained so popular they were expected to win broader control into the West Bank until the elections were suspended. Hamas remains supremely popular still today, even after the October 7th attacks.

So why are Gazans shocked that the strip of land they were unilaterally welfare-gifted by Israel — replete with greenhouses and full infrastructure — became a hellscape at the hands of their ruling terrorist party? The party they cheered in the streets as innocent hostages were paraded like trophies for all to see?

If the ruling party of Gaza doesn’t care about what happens to its populace, why are foreign nations expected to care more than them? Where is the brave Arab League? Why aren’t the Jordanians welcoming their kinsmen into their borders? What about the Qataris who sheltered the slovenly Hamas leaders and spent over a billion dollars to keep them in power? We’ve spent millions propping up Fatah through USAID, millions in weapons training for terrorists who carried out the October 7th attacks. We had no responsibility for what happens to Gaza then, we have no responsibility for what happens to Gaza now. The destruction of the area is the result of generational terrorist worship and the price of worshipping terrorists and giving them full control over your everyday functions has resulted in exactly what you see now — except now that the terrorists are losing horribly, we’re expected to stop and revert to the same mistakes of giving them everything they want because we foolishly believe such an indulgence of degeneracy will result in any other outcome.

Arab nations like Jordan are so nervous about terrorist refugees flooding into their countries that they’ve taken to blaming Israel and rattling war drums. For decades these nations have kept these terror factions at arms length, silently sanctioning their horrors. Neither Jordan nor Egypt want Hamas militants and its supporters within their borders driving conflict. They remember the last time refugees spilled into Lebanon and the increase in terrorism that followed. But that’s their problem, a consequence of the bare minimum effort in opposing Hamas and Hezbollah terror.

If anything, Iran can take displaced Gazans as their prize for bankrolling Hamas and Hezbollah over the years.

The United States and Israel owe Gaza nothing. Those insisting otherwise will never learn. The real question is what Gaza and its ruling party owe the rest of the world for waging a decades-long campaign of horrors.

*“Palestine” is a creation of the modern era, a fictional place unsupported by thousands of years of antiquity. Gaza and Gazans are the correct terms.

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