The Wall Street Journal has a piece today on how Hamas regime finance works in Gaza at the mill with slaves. All the aid that flows in, whether from western countries or Muslim countries, helps finance Hamas.
International aid “was designed to be humanitarian in nature, but money is fungible, and that also allows Hamas to divert money from provieing for its people to support of its war machine,”; said Alex Zerden, [former US official].
Actually to the extent any money comes into Gaza, the Hamas government skims its percentage, whether imports, exports, wages of Gazans working in Israel: whatever. Of course, that is what every government does.
But most governments don’t get their money unless their people are doing useful work: growing things, making things, trading things, and the gubmint takes its cut. That tends to put a limit of most governments’ power projects. First feed the people, then feed the government. You gotta have a thriving economy: otherwise the government runs out of money.
But not a terror regime like Hamas. Most of the money they get is free money, so it can all go on war.
Now, I understand why our liberal friends might not get this. Most of our liberal friends work in government or activism or education or big corporations where they don’t get to see how the world works. They get a paycheck from doing what they are told. Or from doing nothing.
Here’s how the world works. Humans work and wive and thrive within a community where everyone does their bit to earn a living, to grow food and make things and exchange. All without government.
But maybe the ruler next door has his eye on our good rich acres. So we need a government to raise an army to stop him. And maybe some young thugs rob and steal rather than go to work. So we need cops to arrest them. Add in a few judges and courts of law, and that’s it.
But whatabout the helpless victims? You know what? That’s what the neighborhood women are for. They know who really needs help and who is just grifting. And they aren’t shy about telling each other. That’s why God invented women’s gossip.
Obviously when you have a whole nation of helpless victims, who are mostly not growing food and not making things and not exchanging things, then Houston, you have a problem.
That’s because the government of those helpless victims is going to be doing nothing but uniting their people to fight the enemy that has made them helpless victims.
So that’s my solution to the Gaza problem. Stop the free money, and force the government to let a hundred flowers bloom in the Gaza economy. Then the government of Gaza can spend all its time looting and plundering the Gaza economy, as our US government does with our US economy. Instead of going on bended knee to the Iranians and the UN and whoever else wants a conflagration in the Middle East.