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Expect a meltdown from leftist media and politicians alike in response to Lindsey Graham’s announcement about Gaza. “Graham: ‘Change in Strategy’ Coming to ‘Take Gaza Down Like We Did in Tokyo and Berlin,’” Breitbart, July 27, 2025:
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said a “full military effort by Israel to take Gaza down, like we did in Tokyo and Berlin” is coming in “days and weeks.”
Host Kristen Welker said, “President Trump said he told Prime Minister Netanyahu to quote finish the job this week. I know that you are in touch with President Trump, you’re in touch with Israeli officials. What are you anticipating in is going to happen next?”
Trump stated after a phone call with Netanyahu: “Hamas didn’t really want to make a deal. I think they want to die, and it’s very bad. It got to a point where you have to finish the job.”
An enormous global backlash from members of the Red-Green Axis is inevitable.
The Western left is determinedly clueless about Islam and its role in the Palestinian “resistance” from the River to the Sea. French President Emmanuel Macron recently announced his plan to recognize a Palestinian state, which sends a message about his loyalties in the Israel-Hamas war. It also shows his unity with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which has long recognized a “State of Palestine.” The OIC regards the Palestinian cause as central to the Muslim umma. The anti-Israel UN has also accepted the “State of Palestine” as essentially a full UN member.
Yet Macron couldn’t even explain who the Palestinians are (Arabs who are not any different culturally, linguistically, ethnically or religiously from Syrians, Jordanians and Lebanese) nor where the boundaries of a “Palestinian state” should begin and end. Macron et al certainly do not address jihad threats to Israel; nor do they acknowledge the fact that Hamas caused the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, as the group used Palestinians in Gaza as human shields. Leftists simply parrot Hamas talking points.
Dutch Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders caused a stir recently when he mocked Macron:
As Israel’s plan to “take down Gaza” is about to begin, Graham notes:
Here’s some good news for the people in Gaza, humanitarian quarters are now going to be open. Israel is going to work with the UN, the World Food Program, to get some food into these people who need it. But I think what the topic we’re talking about today is a change in strategy. I think President Trump has come to believe and I certainly come to believe there’s no way you’re going to negotiate an end to this war with Hamas. Hamas is a terrorist organization who is chartered to destroy the state of Israel. They are religious Nazis. They hold Israeli hostages. I think Israel has come to conclude that they can’t achieve a goal of ending the war with Hamas that would be satisfactory to the safety of Israel. They’re going to do in Gaza what we did in Tokyo and Berlin, take the place by force, then start over again, presenting a better future for the Palestinians. Hopefully, having the Arabs take over the West Bank and Gaza, but I think going forward you’re going to see a change in tactics, a full military effort by Israel to take Gaza down, like we did in Tokyo and Berlin.”
Israel must prioritize its security. It has no choice, and the Palestinian Authority is no better than Hamas in being trusted to rule Gaza. Both the PA and Hamas seek the annihilation of the Jewish state. Secondly, Gazans will ultimately benefit, as Graham indicated.
Israel made a big mistake to disengage from Gaza in 2005 under then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Whole Jewish communities were uprooted by force after they had invested years in the building-up of Gaza to a level of superior agricultural production — an effort that had been called a “miracle.” When the Jewish community left Gaza, they left behind an entire infrastructure, which included sewage and water pipes, factories, greenhouses, and farmland, which included animals. So the Palestinians were gifted with an entire infrastructure they could have used to continue production for their own people. But what did the Palestinians do with this gift? Destroyed it. They uprooted the expansive underground irritation systems created by Israel, which had made Gaza an agricultural paradise, and used the materials to make bombs and other weaponry to kill Jews with, as well as to create undergound tunnels.
In 2006, the Palestinian people in Gaza chose Hamas rule. From 2007 to 2010, the international community donated $7.7 billion to Gaza, despite the fact that it was under Hamas rule. Another $5.4 billion was pledged in 2014 to develop Gaza. Further billions kept flowing in to this very small region, ruled by a monstrous force for evil, Hamas. So Gaza was quickly transformed from a thriving economy with green, fertile lands into a dirty slum, despite the billions donated.
Watch this video HERE, produced by Israel MyChannel, to find out what happened to the fine infrastructure left behind by hardworking Israeli citizens, and also how international humanitarian aid money was used.
The next days will likely constitute a defining moment. We could be witnessing the final stages of Hamas rule in Gaza, as Israel moves to get rid of Hamas definitively and to secure its borders. Then comes the mammoth task of rebuilding Gaza. The Palestinians would be the beneficiaries of a rebuilt Gaza, perhaps even to the level at which it was before 2005, when Israel disengaged. Whether Palestinians choose to cling to their toxic Islamic hatred of Jews and the Jewish state is another matter. Doing so hasn’t done them much good.