A common theme in the plight of the Palestinian people is the unforgivable failures of Palestinian leadership over the decades: reject deals and say no, only to make a bad losing bet and want what could have been achieved, obtained, or received before. It’s important to remember that a viable deal was on the table, regardless of what revisionist academics try to convince you of: a clear pathway to Palestinian Statehood that included the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem. What Yasser Arafat did by not accepting the 2000 Camp David proposal was a crime against the Palestinian people, for which there has never been any accountability. Similarly, Hamas in the 1990s and 2000s rejected the Two-state solution, only to ultimately realize that Palestinians would be lucky to even receive that, particularly after the October 7 disaster. Time and again throughout Palestinians’ contemporary history, their leadership and that of some Arab countries, particularly during the Pan-Arabism of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, a Palestinian State could have been established, and attention could have been paid to nation-building, instead of pursuing fantasies around the destruction of Israel. It pains me greatly that so many Palestinians, both in Palestine and in the diaspora, are woefully unaware of this history and think the entirety of our problems are solely and exclusively the result of Israeli policies. It’s time for a rejuvenated and pragmatic Palestinian narrative that accounts for the consequences of disastrous leadership and acknowledges the inevitability of Israel’s continued existence and the need to live in peace and prosperity next to the Jewish State. That does not negate the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination and freedom, for both peoples’ futures are intricately intertwined.

Imbeciles and short-sighted fools who are cheering on Hamas and supporting the terror group’s supposed “resistance” are completely ignoring the fact that October 7 brought back Israeli occupation to the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military has chopped up the coastal enclave into chunks that it controls via a network of roads, buffer zones, and no-go areas that are off-limits to the Palestinian people. It appears that the IDF is settling in for a multi-year campaign that’s going to be disastrous for Gazans and will prolong their suffering to an unimaginable extent. Before 10/7, Gaza had options and possibilities to address the economic, humanitarian, and political hardships and problems. Gaza had even shopping malls, sprawling beaches, vibrant communities, art centers, restaurants, and food everywhere, and a functional infrastructure that provided enough for people to survive and, in some cases, even thrive. Hamas deliberately threw all of that away and destroyed the people of Gaza with no way out and no exit plan. Every single member of Hamas’s leadership must be tried and convicted of crimes against the Palestinian people; they must be delegitimized, shamed, and held accountable for high treason against Palestinian interests and, importantly, for cowardly behavior like fighting in civilian clothes and hiding among women and children in tents, schools, and hospitals. The problem isn’t that Israel is going after Hamas; I wrote last November that if the terror group could actually be destroyed, most Gazans would privately say do us a favor. The problem is that Israel has destroyed Gaza and its people just as much or even more than Hamas; the IDF has killed tens of thousands of people who had nothing to do with the organization and its rule – and is continuing to do so. Pro-Hamas and pro “resistance” knuckleheads in Western universities are the enemies of the Palestinian people. They have been corrupted by a rotten higher-education system that failed to teach critical thinking skills, giving “safe spaces” instead that somehow produced youngsters who don’t have to deal with the consequences of life under their beloved “resistance” group. Never would I have thought that $100,000 a year higher education paid for by Mommy and Daddy could actually harm the people of Gaza by sabotaging their cause and supporting the terror group that has invited Israeli death and destruction upon them—shame on all who have stood idly and not challenged this disastrous trend and misinformed young kids.