While finishing up my last post, I saw information about the Hamas attack on Israel—the unfolding horror. The details were depraved even beyond the standard of horror Iisis established. How could this terror come about? What to do about it?

The Middle East was more peaceful than usual. The Abraham Accords were moving toward adding Saudi Arabia. Peace between the Arabs and Israel could lead to cooperation and a better life for everyone. Access to the Jewish state’s cutting-edge technology will only help the Arab world, while increased peaceful trade and tourism benefits everyone.

Everyone except Iran. This nation seeks to dominate the Middle East, and these accords threaten their plan. Worse, it increases their isolation. Reviving Moslem-Jewish enmity is that nation’s aim. However, directly attacking Israel would likely end badly.

Better to use their pawn, Hamas, who rules the Gaza Strip. A terror plan developed, financed, and supported by Iran and carried out in the most bloodthirsty way by Hamas received Iran’s go-ahead. How do we know this? Hamas depends on Iran for over 90% of its funding. Dirt-poor Gaza, on its own, doesn’t have the resources. Also, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post have verified Iran’s input.

Sadly, it appears the Muslim world is rallying to Hamas. So far, not one Arab nation has supported Israel in the face of this abomination. At this point, Iran guessed right.

How could it have come to this? The last time we saw something akin to this savagery was when ISIS spread its terror. In 2015, I posted some ideas to bring stability to the Area. With the solid support of the Kurds, we destroyed the Califate. I proposed a quiet alliance with the Kurds backed by a large US airbase in Kurdistan, protected by well-armed Kurds.

Along with our relationship with Israel, this positions us to exert pressure on all the other Middle East players. Instead, The Trump Administration went toward conciliation between the Arab states and Israel to offset Iran. This tact resulted in the Abraham Accords.

My other recommendation was to pressure the Arab world to change immigration policies to allow other Arabs to immigrate anywhere in the Arab League with the right to gain citizenship. Even though Arab Palestinians worked in Saudi oil fields or did all sorts of jobs in Dubai or Abu Dhabi, they could never become citizens. Sending them back to Palestine when not needed is the ever-present. This policy seems to be the case throughout the Arab world.

These restrictive Arab immigration policies contributed to the significantly increased numbers arriving in Europe. The migrants felt more welcome there than in Muslim nations.

While causing significant problems in Europe, it forced an expanding number of Palestinians to remain in an area unable to provide a better future. Even if there is a Palestinian Micro-state state, population pressures will make life difficult, especially in Gaza.

Based on the present situation, I propose a course of action that may sound cruel and heartless but is better for everyone in the long run. Instead of attacking Hamas from the air and going house to house in Urban warfare to retrieve hostages and kill Hamas fighters, cordon off several blocks in some areas. Then, use loudspeakers to tell the people to leave within 8 hours because the buildings will no longer be there.

Allow the unarmed civilians to pass, but kill the armed. Use explosives, incendiaries, or bulldozers to level every structure completely. Once done, move on to a new area around an ever-shrinking circle around Gaza City, leaving the port open. Vary the points from straight lines so as not to be anticipated.

Inform the world the destruction will only end when all hostages return, attacks cease, and Israel has a map of the Gaza tunnel network. Resume the demolitions if strikes resume. 

Nations wishing to help the now-homeless Gazans can bring peaceful aid into the port. However, their ships need to take a complement of Gazan migrants to leave. Further, these people must be allowed to seek citizenship in the flagged country. 

It would be easier for the Gazans to go through adjoining Eygpt, but that country wants nothing to do with Gaza and refuses to let Gazans in.

As New York City and others found out, it’s easy to say you support people until it’s time to put up or shut up. Palestinians must be allowed to migrate with full rights. Those backing them need to pay this price.

I realize these actions sound heartless, but sympathy for Gazans is misplaced. Israel withdrew from the strip in 2005. Instead of choosing a government focused on emulating other successful, heavily populated City States, such as Hong Kong or Singapore, they backed Humas over the somewhat less odious Fatah 2007. Choices have consequences. 

This choice has resulted in half the population unemployed. The figure rises to over 60% among the young. The United Nations says it’s among the poorest places on earth.  

Worse, Gazans descended to the lowest form of human behavior when they beheaded babies. They chose evil. No sympathy is warranted.

However, this plan will put almost everyone in a better place. For Israel, it’s far less costly in personnel and treasure to destroy buildings instead of going house to house, floor to floor, to get the bad guys. Dynamite costs less than scarce precision ordnance delivered by expensive planes, drones, or artillery. Locating the enemy among the rubble is more accessible than in dense urban areas. Israel will know the violence will end sometime, even if it’s when the last Gazan departs the strip. Eliminating the Gaza front leaves more resources to protect the rest of the country.

While losing the roof over your head makes life difficult, a bomb or a shell will kill or injure you. Civilians will suffer much less harm. For most Gazans living at bare subsistence, emigrating is likely a step up. Even if Hamas throws in the towel before totally leveling the strip, ending the war and Hamas rule could clear the way for progress. As it is, Gaza is a hellhole that the head of Hamas refuses to live in. He lives in a villa in Qatar. 

Having played its high card leaves Iran on the horns of a dilemma. It can try to widen the war., After seeing Gaza’s fate, Lebanese Hezbollah or Syrians may not be keen on suffering a similar destiny. Their families probably like roofs over their heads. Using fewer resources in Gaza gives Israel more resources to punish hostile neighbors. However, if it does nothing, Iran will be humiliated for losing Gaza—an excellent outcome for the US and other Israel supporters. 

There will likely be screams from some quarters here and abroad, but only buildings are destroyed rather than civilians killed. Exposed as aligned with baby killers, they aren’t worthy of our concern. Even an extended demolition period will drive home the cost of savagery. This plan makes sense.

Even if it takes till every structure in the strip goes down, it has the value of being sure to end the problem, rather than airstrikes that do some harm and costly incursions that kill some Hamas fighters but kick the problem down the road. It is almost certain there will be another attack from Gaza. This plan eliminates that possibility.

Even with all the high-tech weapons, the simplest solution is sometimes best for everyone except Iran.