Wednesday, September 03, 2025
Elder of ZiyonSince Hamas seized Gaza, the world has indulged the fantasy that it is not just a terror group but a government. Even after October 7, Hamas is still treated as a political actor with “popular support” rather than what it is - a genocidal militia squatting on a population it holds hostage. It claims it wants a two state solution but has no plan on how to dislodge Hamas.
Which brings up the irony of the West depending on Israel to destroy Hamas to bring about this mythical solution while simultaneously criticizing the only way to accomplish this - war against an enemy who desires maximum civilian casualties even on their own side.
Yet we know what happens when a governing Islamist group is accepted as too difficult to topple.
Yemen.
Houthi-run Yemen is a human rights disaster that is far worse than Gaza is today. Already in 2018, some 85,000 children were estimated to have died of starvation. So far some 200,000 have died from hunger and disease combined. 4.5 million are displaced from their homes, often multiple times.18 million require humanitarian assistance.
Like Hamas, the Houthi government uses civilians as pawns to stay in power. They recruit child soldiers. They rape and torture prisoners.
If you want to know what Gaza would look like in 2030, look at Yemen today.
In some ways, Hamas is worse than the Houthis already - taking aid that was meant for reconstructing Gaza and using it for tunnels under mosques, schools and apartment buildings.
Hamas is a Sunni version of the Houthis.
Yet Hamas is treated with more deference than the Houthis ever were. Nowhere can this be seen better than this 2018 article:
The same World Food Programme that sees 100% of its food aid stolen in Gaza has never released a statement of condemnation about it the way they condemned the Houthis for doing the exact same thing.
The same IPC that has been seeking to declare famine in Gaza for over a year, consistently making dire predictions that never come true, never declared one in Yemen when the number of starvation deaths is perhaps 400 times Gaza's rate.
The Westerners insist that the war should end stop unconditionally now, with Hamas releasing the hostages in exchange for Israel releasing hundreds of additional terrorists. Yet the result is that Hamas remains in power. The world cannot come up with any plan where Hamas voluntarily steps down or goes into exile.
Meaning, the French and Australians and Canadians and British who want a Palestinian state tacitly accept the concept of Hamas rule, even after October 7. Hamas is more popular than Fatah, and the only person who is more popular than both is a murderer in Israeli prison.
It is not only a post-war Gaza that would inevitably devolve into Yemen - the entire Palestinian state would.
But that is considered a better alternative than Israel winning the war and defeating Hamas.
That is how messed up the Western world has become.
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