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ALPERN AT LARGE - If you want to read an article that’s slavishly pro-Trump, you’ve come to the wrong place...but that said, President Trump’s shocking (if not downright outlandish) proclamation that the U.S. take over the Gaza Strip makes two undeniable statements after years of giving its residents chance after chance after chance for self-rule:
- Neither Egypt, Saudi Arabia, or any of the Muslim-majority nations who predominate in the Mideast are stepping up for their Arab cousins in Gaza...why? Because they’re violent, uncompromising, and unreasonable, and have been expelled from quite a few nations who DID take them in, and dumped on Israel.
- If the dynamics of the Mideast remains nothing but war, war, war then it’s up to the West to take over and start over to create a better future for all involved.
In a nutshell, however, I do believe (as do perhaps most of us) that it’s just a horrible, damned, dreadful shame it’s come to this.
Whether it’s Egypt—the logical and previous rulers of Gaza before 1967, but who has walled off Gaza because of the violence Hamas has fomented Egypt in conjunction with the Hamas-linked Muslim Brotherhood—or Jordan, or Lebanon, or Saudi Arabia, no Arab nation has either taken in the Gazans or opted to govern over Gaza.
So enter the head-turning proposal by Trump that’s giving us all whiplash, which otherwise would and should smack of imperialism, colonialism, and forced expulsion of over two million people.
Do I like everything Trump says? No—I didn’t think him gloating over boos at the Super Bowl directed at Taylor Swift.
But is Trump right about the INNOCENT Israeli hostages appearing to be emaciated and abused—like Holocaust survivors?
Yes, he most certainly is. I guess that Hamas (and the overwhelming majority of Gazans who STILL support Hamas) never did get the memo that they slaughtered and kidnapped innocent men, women, children, and babies.
Meanwhile, the kidnappers, who are arranging to get violent murders repatriated to them in exchange for the INNOCENTS they kidnapped, now blames Israel for violating the agreement (again, Hamas doesn’t want peace...just a way to rearm for the next round of terrorism, and all the Arab nations know this).
So the agreement is delayed.
But three things are different than a year ago:
- Trump, not Biden occupies the White House, and has no problem unleashing and supporting Israeli forces to take it to Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and their UN and Red Cross enablers.
- Trump may not want to turn Gaza into a charred parking lot, but he’s pretty much declared he wants that population OUT.
- Trump is now arm-twisting the Arab World to DO SOMETHING about these lovelies who train their children from nursery school to become terrorists.
It’s to be repeated that it’s awful that it’s come to this...but after half a century of slaughter and a refusal to make peace with Israel, the Gazans are about ready to be thrown out.
Not like the Native Americans were cruelly and inhumanely thrown out of their homelands, but in the manner that all the other surrounding Arab states have concluded they needed to do to this violent, death-obsessed Gazan culture that has poisoned and doomed its children to miserable and very short lives.
(Kenneth S. Alpern, M.D, is a dermatologist who has served in clinics in Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside Counties, and is a proud husband and father. He was active for 20 years on the Mar Vista Community Council (MVCC) as a Board Member focused on Planning and Transportation, and helped lead the grassroots efforts of the Expo Line as well as connecting LAX to MetroRail. His latest project is his fictional online book entitled The Unforgotten Tales of Middle-Earth, and can be reached at [email protected]. The views expressed in this article are solely those of Dr. Alpern.)
