Begin with the Sat. Jan. 10 "Meet the New Press" posting that includes a summary of the main points I made when being interviewed by Skip Murphy, Doug Lambert, & Pat Hines. Here is the podcast link for my interview on the show. It was a pleasure to make my first appearance on this New Hampshire radio station.
The Jerusalem Post reports that Israel is moving into Gaza City (pop. 400,000) ISO Hamas personnel & infrastructure. JP also sees Turkey's role in ceasefire talks as central to their prospects. Turkey, however, is talking to Hamas in place of Egypt, as Hamas is angry with Egypt over its criticism of the group. Turkey's role has hurt its normally good relations with Israel.
Turn now to the UN: The UN Human Rights Council voted 33-1 to condemn Israel alone for human rights violations in Gaza. Canada took the merit badge for voting against, while the EU members abstained. America does not currently have a seat on the HRC. Notch another classic for the UN.
This WSJ piece explains in detail how we & others are funding Palestinian terror by subsidizing high birthrates; the average Palestinian woman bears six children. As the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan often noted, a society that cannot find productive outlets for its young males is asking for trouble. In the past 60 years 62,000 have been killed in Arab - Israeli wars (40,000 Arabs, 22,000 Israelis). The poison arises from the intersection of masses of youth and foolish international subvention:
The reason for Gaza's endless youth bulge is that a large majority of its population does not have to provide for its offspring. Most babies are fed, clothed, vaccinated and educated by UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Unlike the U.N. High Commission for Refugees, which deals with the rest of the world's refugees and aims to settle them in their respective host countries, UNRWA perpetuates the Palestinian problem by classifying as refugees not only those who originally fled their homes, but all of their descendents as well.
UNRWA is benevolently funded by the U.S. (31%) and the European Union (nearly 50%) -- only 7% of the funds come from Muslim sources. Thanks to the West's largesse, nearly the entire population of Gaza lives in a kind of lowly but regularly paid dependence. One result of this unlimited welfare is an endless population boom. Between 1950 and 2008, Gaza's population has grown from 240,000 to 1.5 million. The West basically created a new Near Eastern people in Gaza that at current trends will reach three million in 2040. Within that period, Gazans may alter the justifications and directions of their aggression but are unlikely to stop the aggression itself....
As long as we continue to subsidize Gaza's extreme demographic armament, young Palestinians will likely continue killing their brothers or neighbors. And yet, despite claiming that it wants to bring peace to the region, the West continues to make the population explosion in Gaza worse every year. By generously supporting UNRWA's budget, the West assists a rate of population increase that is 10 times higher than in their own countries. Much is being said about Iran waging a proxy war against Israel by supporting Hezbollah and Hamas. One may argue that by fueling Gaza's untenable population explosion, the West unintentionally finances a war by proxy against the Jews of Israel.
The author concludes:
If we seriously want to avoid another generation of war in Gaza, we must have the courage to tell the Gazans that they will have to start looking after their children themselves, without UNRWA's help. This would force Palestinians to focus on building an economy instead of freeing them up to wage war. Of course, every baby lured into the world by our money up to now would still have our assistance.
Will we ever learn?
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