The End of Employment

For John, BLUF:  While Israel was helping residents of Gaza to prosper, the Haamas Government was working to make that all go away.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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The betrayal by and of the Palestinian workers

From The New Neo, by The Hidden New Neo, 22 June 2024.

Here is the lede plus one:

There are so many aspects of the October 7 attacks that were horrific – but one element that can get lost in the focus on the more barbaric events involves the Palestinian workers who, prior to 10/7, were gainfully employed in Israel.  Many of them (we don’t know how many, but a substantial number) acted as spies for Hamas while they were pretending to be friendly to the Israelis they would be helping to torture, murder, and rape.

The program was meant not only to help Palestinians economically, but to show goodwill and most of all to lay the groundwork for better relations between Israel and the Palestinians.  The Palestinians’ betrayal of all this goodwill was profound; one can hardly imagine a worse one.  The resulting destruction of all trust the Israelis might have still retained up to 10/7 in the word of Palestinians and the potential goodwill of the ordinary Palestinian “man in the street” meant that it would be difficult or actually impossible for any such program or any such rapprochement again.

This is commentary on an 18 June 2024 Gatestone Institute article by Middle East Scholar Bassam Tawil, Israel Gave Work Permits, While Palestinians Planned Oct. 7 Massacre.

It turns out that by the eve of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack, Israel had issued 18,500 work permits to Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.  After the attack, these work permits were revoked, resulting in a loss of roughtly USD $24 million per month.

Hamas, the Government of Gaza, must think that this will all be made up and more (almost USD $216 million to date) when they push out all the Israelis.  But, there will be a price to be paid.  I don't see the Citizens of Israel going quietly, unless it is to come to the United States.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff