How humanity allowed Gaza to happen

“Mario Nawfal” posted on X, September 27, 2026:

Years from now, my grandkids will ask me how humanity allowed Gaza to happen. I still don’t have an answer for them.

To which “James Lindsay” replied:

I do. It's actually a really simple answer.

Kids can understand it. I'll tell you the story now so you can be ready when you finally have grandkids, Mario Awful.

For decades, Israelis tried to work with the Gazans, believing the impossible: that people who have declared that they want nothing more than to have Israel destroyed and Jews killed might be able to be persuaded to be friends by giving them land, money, resources, opportunities, and an infinite amount of patience.

During those decades, huge amounts of humanitarian aid was sent to the Gaza Strip, which they used to militarize and to spend many years planning a savage surprise attack against the people helping them. Almost everyone in the world took up their cause, even many Israelis who lived right next door, even though the Gazans were taking advantage of all that help.

They were offered everything but wouldn't accept it because all they wanted was Israel to be destroyed and Jews to be driven out or, preferably, dead. They were so fixated on that goal that nothing else mattered, and nothing else was good enough. They even used water pipes to build rockets and dug terror tunnels under their city and deep into Israeli territory to prepare for a surprise war.

On an important Jewish holiday and their sabbath, the Gazans sprung their surprise attack. That was October 7, 2023. They launched over a thousand rockets at 6:30 am. The Israelis heard the sirens and knew they only had seconds to hide in their shelters from these attacks. By the way, every Israeli house has a bomb shelter in it because these kinds of attacks are so frequent. Also, every Israeli adult and child, little boys and little girls, knows from as soon as they can walk that when the sirens sound to go to the shelter because it is so important and so common.

As the Israelis went, exhausted and sleepy, to their shelters to hide from the rocket attack, the Gazans sent a large armed force across the fence into Israel to do the most heinous things to the Israelis that you can imagine. Over a thousand were murdered. Things so horrible you cannot describe them to children happened everywhere. The Gazans celebrated and filmed themselves and put it on the internet, bragging and boasting about unimaginable horrors and murders. They dragged Israelis, including women, children, and babies and dead bodies, into their terror city and terror tunnels and started abusing and killing them slowly, using them and their corpses as collateral against the Israeli people and military. This lasted for over two years, with the last hostage's remains returned at the end of January 2026 after being taken in October 2023.

The scale and nature of this attack is so horrific that it cannot be described politely, but its true evil wasn't just in the barbarity of its forces, which did unspeakable things to completely innocent men, women, and children everywhere they went, including many who openly supported them for years, but in how they took advantage of the trust and help they were given to do it.

Gazans had spent years exploiting the goodwill of Israelis in the Gaza Envelope to gather intelligence, working as gardeners, housekeepers, taxi drivers, etc., to gather detailed intelligence of the neighborhoods and homes they would systematically attack starting on October 7. So many Israelis were betrayed at their trust and goodwill toward the Gazans, and by it. While they hid from those rockets in their shelters, Hamas terrorists systematically went through the carefully mapped streets of their neighborhoods, broke into houses, and shot them dead through the doors of their shelters, or crashed in through the walls from the outside using their own farming equipment to do it. Hamas terrorists knew the Israelis would be hiding from the rockets and knew where they'd be hiding, and they murdered them while they hid, deliberately, planned out in advance and for years.

These people weren't just Israelis or Jews. They were innocents. In fact, as far as it goes, many of them were the greatest champions for the Gazans in Israel. Didn't matter. They were Israelis. They were Jews. They had to die in the most horrible ways you can think of. They had to be desecrated. They had to be taken hostage. It all had to be celebrated on video streamed live onto the internet to excite their radical friends around the region and the world. The horror is actually incomprehensible.

Had this happened to Americans in the United States from one of its neighbors, the response Americans would have demanded cannot actually be comprehended. I stand in awe at how restrained and cautious and decent and good the Israelis have been, and it is to my slight embarrassment knowing that our own people, our own forces, wouldn't have managed a fraction of that decency, however much we would match the unparalleled effectiveness of these operations. That is, Mario Awful, I don't f*cking want to hear it, and neither do your grandkids. Respect them enough not to soil their minds with these lies, which are so evil that Hell itself would be slightly embarrassed to spread them.

So, when Israel realized what had happened to them, what was still happening to them, how their trust, support, and patience had been taken advantage of in the nastiest and cruelest way human beings can possibly imagine, for zero good reasons and only unbelievably evil ones, they set out to make sure it would never happen again. They started a war of rescue and to end the military capacities of the Gazans, who were and still are governed by a radical terrorist group that even has in their charter that they want every Israeli driven out and every Jew that can be killed dead.

Israel waged a patient war with the highest accuracy rate of any in the entire history of urban warfare, taking great pains and many casualties to spare innocent life, even when that innocent life openly supports the terror regime that governs them and wants them dead. The Gazans, however, had spent decades turning their entire city into a hidden military fortress, hiding weapons, entrances to terror tunnels, command centers, and every conceivable military target within civilian neighborhoods, including even homes, schools, hospitals, and houses of worship. Israel did what it had to do as carefully as it could be done. The devastation you see is the result of the evil of Hamas and the Gazans who support it having spent decades organizing their city to become a vast, sprawling military installation.

The Gazans and their terrorist leaders took this organizational approach specifically for two reasons. One was to deter Israel from ever attacking or disabling their military installations at all. Even when the devastation seen here, that remained the case. Israel took great pains to minimize, including casualties, including complicated legal approvals, including warning both civilians and combatants in Gaza of incoming attacks against the installations, trying to save all innocent (and a lot of not-so-innocent) life. Another was to produce this propaganda, which Mario Awful, after having his account built to giant size by @elonmusk himself, spreads and promotes with foolish emotion-driven emojis and devastating lies of omission of these facts.

Even as Israel dismantled the entire military capacity of Gaza bit by bit (which is what you see in the video [which was deleted]), they sent aid: more food, medicine, and other supplies than have ever been sent to a population controlled by an enemy military in the history of warfare, period. The terrorist leaders leveraged every bit of it against them, stealing it and starving their own people, creating propaganda campaigns about genocide and forced starvation, and even building more rockets out of raw materials including water pipes, which they then fired at Israel.

Bit by bit, Israel dismantled as much of their military apparatus as they could and rescued or recovered all of their hostages, including among them Americans. The result is what you see. The result you see below is the most painstakingly moderate response a decent human being of even the slightest comprehension could possibly imagine, and yet that's what the Israelis have accomplished in Gaza.

And they accomplished it while the world hated them for it, scrutinized everything not just for any legitimate breaches of perfection but for a litany of illegitimate accusations of things so voluminous that they could not even be recorded, except that they were in the relentless propaganda of social media, the global enemy propaganda channels, and even the mainstream press, almost all amplified and repeated by even allegedly good, decent conservatives who found these lies a perfect reason either to reveal their underlying but hidden hatred for Jews or to turn to that evil on false pretenses you are promoting, even now, even today.

So when you sit down to tell your grandkids how humanity allowed Gaza to happen, tell them the real story.

Humanity allowed Gaza to become a terrorist militarized city openly dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the murder and desecration of Jews and Jewish bodies by believing in some asinine humanitarian concept that defies all logic. It happened by creating a global political situation that, for reasons of Communist political correctness and soft-hearted and softer-headed compassion, refused to believe the simple reality of the situation. It happened because this delusion and misplaced trust persisted for decades while Hamas and its supporters turned Gaza into a terrorist military outpost that would simply have to be destroyed sooner or later, and then they pulled that trigger on themselves in the most obvious way possible on October 7, 2023, which stands as one of the darkest days of the last century.

Humanity allowed Gaza to happen because it wouldn't take Hamas at its word. Humanity allowed Gaza to happen because it lied to itself for decades about the nature of the Islamic currents that motivate Hamas and "Palestinianism" more broadly. Humanity allowed Gaza to happen because it wouldn't address a problem correctly from the beginning, not least because it was terrified of being called racist and refused, nobly but stupidly, that human beings could be led by ideology and religion to the depths of evil and depravity that had captured the Gazans.

Humanity allowed Gaza to happen, that is, because it refused to take Gazans at their word.

Israel, starting in late 2023, finally woke up in the worst way possible to the need to STOP LETTING GAZA HAPPEN, the result of which your [deleted] video depicts and the truth and moral of which you, like a demon, invert.

Common Sense, 1776

The cauſe of America is in a great meaſure the cauſe of all mankind. ...

[excerpts]

Society is produced by our wants, and government, by our wickedneſs.

Society in every ſtate is a bleſſing, but government even in its beſt ſtate is but a neceſſary evil; in its worſt ſtate an intolerable one; for when we ſuſſer, or are expoſed to the ſame miſeries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting, that we furniſh the means by which we ſuſſer. Goyernment, like dreſs, is the badge of loſt innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradice. For were the impulſes of conſcience clear, uniform, and irreſiſtibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the caſe, he finds it neceſſary to ſurrender up a part of his property to furniſh means for the protection of the reſt; and this he is induced to do by the ſame prudence which in every other caſe, adviſes him out of two evils to chuſe the leaſt. Wherefore, ſecurity being the true deſign and end of government, it unanſwerably follows, that whatever form thereof appears moſt likely to inſure it to us, with the leaſt expenſe and greateſt benefit, is preferable to all others.

But Britain is the parent country, ſay ſome. Then the more ſhame upon her conduét. Even brutes do not devour their young, nor ſavages make war upon their families; wherefore the aſſertion, if true, turns to her reproach; but it happens not to be true, or only partly ſo, and the phraſe parent or mother country hath been jeſuitically adopted by the king and his paraſites, with a low papiſtical deſign of gaining an unfair bias on the credulous weakneſs of our minds. Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the aſylum for the perſecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe, Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is ſo far true of England, that the ſame tyranny which vrove the firſt emigrants trom home, purſues their deſcendants ſtill.

Even the diſtance at which the Almighty hath placed England and America, is a ſtrong and natural proof, that the authority of the one, over the other, was never the deſign of Heaven. The time likewiſe at which the continent was diſcovered, adds weight to the argument, and the manner in which it was peopled encreaſes the force of it. The reformation was preceded by the diſcovery of America, as if the Almighty gracioufly meant to open a ſanctuary to the perſecuted in future years, when home ſhould afford neither friendſhip nor ſafety.

Though I would carefully avoid giving unneceſſary offence, yet I am inclined to believe, that all thoſe who eſpouſe the doctrine of reconciliation, may be included within the following deſcriptions. Interested men, who are not to be truſted; weak men, who cannot ſee; prejudiced men, who will not ſee ; and a certain ſet of moderate men, who think better of the European world than it deſerves; and this laſt claſs, by an ill-judged deliberation, will be the cauſe of more calamities to this continent, than all the other three. ¶ It is the good fortune of many to live diſtant from the ſcene of ſorrow; the evil is not ſufficient brought to their doors to make them feel the precariouſneſs with which all American property is poſſeſſed.

Men of paſſive tempers look ſomewhat lightly over the offences of Britain, and ſtill hoping for the beſt, are apt to call out, “Come, come, we fhall be friends again, for all this.” But examine the paſſions and feelings of mankind, bring the doctrine of reconciliation to the touchſtone of nature, and then tell me, whether you can hereafter love, honour, and faithfully ſerve the power that hath carried fire and ſword into your land? If you cannot do all theſe, then are you only deceiving yourſelves, and by your delay bringing ruin upon poſterity. … Have you loſt a parent or a child, by their hands, and yourſelf the ruined and wretched ſurvivor? If you have not, then are you not a judge of thoſe who have. But if you have, and ſtill can ſhake hands with the murderers, then are you unworthy the name of huſband, father, friend, or lover, and whatever may be your rank or title in life, you have the heart of a coward, and the ſpirit of a ſycophant.

… there is ſomething very abſurd in ſuppoſing a continent to be perpetually governed by an iſland.

No man was a warmer wiſher for reconciliation than myſelf before the fatal nineteenth of April, 1775, but the moment the event of that day was made known, I rejected the hardened ſullen tempered Pharaoh of England forever; and diſdain the wretch, that with the pretended title of ғᴀᴛʜᴇʀ ᴏғ ʜɪs ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ can unfeelingly hear of their ſlaughter, and compoſedly ſleep with their blood upon his ſoul.

… the longer it is delayed the harder it will be to accompliſh.

The prefent ſtate of America is truly alarming to every man who is capable of reflection. Without law, without government, without any other mode of power than what is founded on, and granted by courteſy. Held together by an unexampled concurrence of ſentiment, which is nevertheleſs ſubject to change, and which every ſecret enemy is endeavouring to diſſolve, Our preſent condition is, Legiflation without law; wiſdom without a plan; a conſtitution without a name; and, what is ſtrangely affoniſhing, perfect Independance contending for Dependance. The inſtance is without a precedent; the caſe never exiſted before; and who can tell what may be the event? The property of no man is ſecure in the preſent unbraced ſyſtem of things. The mind of the multitude is left at random, and ſeeing no fixed object before them, they purſue ſuch as fancy. or opinion ſtarts. Nothing is criminal; there is no ſuch thing as treaſon; wherefore, every one thinks himfelf at liberty to act as he pleaſes.

We ought to reflect, that there are three different ways, by which an independancy can hereafter be effected; and that one of thoſe three, will one day or other, be the fate of America, viz. By the legal voice of the people in Congreſs; by a military power; or by a mob: It may not always happen that our ſoldiers are citizens, and the multitude a body of reaſonable men; virtue, as I have already remarked, is not hereditary, neither is it perpetual. Should an independancy be brought about by the firſt of thoſe means, we have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the nobleſt pureſt conſtitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again. A ſituation, ſimilar to the preſent, hath not happened ſince the days of Noah till now. The birthday of a new world is at hand, and a race of men perhaps as numerous as all Europe contains, are to receive their portion of freedom from the event of a few months. The reflexion is awful – and in this point of view, how trifling, how ridiculous, do the little, paltry cavellings, of a few weak or intereſted men appear, when weighed againſt the buſineſs of a world.

… independance is the only Bᴏɴᴅ that can tye and keep us together. … Let the names of Whig and Tory be extinct; and let none other be heard among us, than thoſe of a geod citizen, an open and reſolute friend, and a virtuous ſupporter of the ʀɪɢʜᴛs of ᴍᴀɴᴋɪɴᴅ and of the FREE AND INDEPENDANT STATES OF AMERICA,

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APPENDIX – To the Repreſentatives of the Religious Society of the People called Quakers …

We fight neither for revenge nor conqueſt; neither from pride nor paſſion; we are not inſulting the world with our fleets and armies, nor ravaging the globe for plunder. Beneath the ſhade of our own vines are we attacked; in our own houſes, and in our own land, is the violence committed againſt us. We view our enemies in the character of highwaymen and houſebreakers, and having no defence for ourſelves in the civil law, are obliged to puniſh them by the military one, and apply the ſword, in the very caſe, where you have before now, applied the halter. ——— Perhaps we feel for the ruined and inſulted ſufferers in all and every part of the continent, with a degree of tenderneſs which hath not yet made its way into ſome of your boſoms. But be ye ſure that ye miſtake not the cauſe and ground of your Teſtimony. Call not coldneſs of ſoul, religion; nor put the Bigot in the place of the Chriſtian.

O ye partial miniſters of your own acknowledged principles. if the bearing arms be ſinful, the firſt going to war muſt be more ſo, by all the difference between wilful attack and unavoidable defence. Wherefore, if ye really preach from conſcience, and mean not to make a political hobbyhorſe of your religion, convince the world thereof, by proclaiming your doctrine to eur enemies, for they likewife bear ᴀʀᴍs. Give us proof of your ſincerity by publiſhing it at St. James’s, to the commanders in chief at Boſton, to the admurals and captains who are piratically ravaging our coaſts, and to all the murdering miſcreants who are acting in authority under ʜɪᴍ whom ye profeſs to ſerve. … Ye would tell the Royal Wretch his ſins, and warn him of eternal ruin. Ye would not ſpend your partial invectives againſt the injured and the infulte only, but, like faithful miniſters, would cry aloud and ſpare none. Say not that ye are perſecuted, neither endeavour to make us the authors of that reproach, which, ye are bringing upon yourſelves; for we teſtify unto all men, that we do not complain againſt you becauſe ye are Quakers, but becauſe ye pretend to be and are ɴᴏᴛ Quakers.

Alas! it ſeems by the particular tendency of ſome part of your teſtimony, and other parts of your conduct, as if, all ſin was reduced to, and comprehended in, the act of bearing arms, and that by the people only.

Illegal aliens stealing work in 1991

From Breakdown, by Bill Pronzini (1991): 

Somewhere around a million illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America now live in California, thousands of them in San Francisco’s Mission District and in Daly City farther west; many have no jobs and no way of getting legitimate work without green cards from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. So the drive-by halls were born, and have flourished in the city and throughout the state.

On a dozen or more street corners in the Mission, illegals congregate early every morning, like cattle in pens, waiting for employers on the prowl for cheap labor to come driving along. A painting contractor, for instance, goes to a drive-by hall that specializes in illegals with painting skills; picks as many men as he needs for a particular job, or series of jobs, and hauls them to and from the sites; and pays them wages far below union scale – in cash, always, so there is no record of their employment. If the employer is a plumbing contractor, or runs a gardening business, or owns a factory that makes containers and requires the services of multipurpose workers, he goes to the street corner where his particular brand of illicit labor has assembled.

The police can’t do much about the drive-by halls except to disperse crowds of men that sometimes become unruly; they don’t have the jurisdiction. The INS has enacted a law carrying stiff penalties for employers caught hiring illegals, but they’re too understaffed and overworked to effectively enforce it. So both the illegals and the cheap-labor bosses make out fine: One side avoids the need for applications, interviews, union cards, and green cards; the other side avoids paying union wages, as well as withholding tax and FICA to the state and federal governments. But the big loser isn’t the IRS or the Franchise Tax Board or the INS. It’s the citizen and legitimate union worker, no matter what his race or job skill, who can’t find work to support his family because the positions have all been filled by illegals.

The real villains are the greedy employers.

Presque Isle, Maine, celebrates the nation’s 250th all year, causing pain and suffering amongst the righteous

Presque Isle, Maine, has a full year of events to celebrate the 250th birthday of our nation, organized primarily by Kim Smith, the town's resource development and public information officer. The New York Times wrote about it, nicely conveying the enthusiasm despite a mocking headline for the hate bait. And here indeed are some of the killjoy comments, miserable in their TDS and betraying an utter disgust for democracy and their fellow Americans. Back in January, the Bangor Daily News had written about it.

SJH · Portland, OR:

One way to “celebrate“ our country’s 250th is to get politically active and help restore, democracy, and integrity to federal governance. If you’re ready to a member of the boots-on-the-ground effort, then Google “how to help the Democrats win the midterms” and sign up for active political duty. Then choose wisely, depending on where you live and who you are.

If you live in a blue or red area, then consider helping out in swing states and closely contested elections. Organizations like Swingleft, Movementvote, and Voteforward can help you direct your efforts to best effect. But if you live in a pink or purple area than consider getting active locally. Contact your state/local Democratic committee and ask how you can help. There are some very good books on running and winning local elections.

No matter what you choose, tell your people and ask them to help. And post your experiences on social media sites like Facebook and Reddit. There are seldom-voting Democrats, independents, Newbies, even patriotic Republicans who need to be prompted to vote and vote blue in these midterms. Our country is in a deep crisis. It needs you. Now. Please help. It’s the right time and the right thing to do.

Daj · Bellvue, Colorado:

Sounds like she has gone all in and managed not to politicize our 250th. I however will be mourning the steady demise of all that is decent and good about America.

Robyn · Out west:

Perhaps we could concentrate on returning to democracy for all. I don’t see anything to celebrate on the direction our country is going at present.

W · U.S.:

Good for them! I’m looking forward to our small town’s celebration as well. I certainly will not be watching our President celebrating himself.

Proud Liberal · Netherlands:

I wish I could share in Ms. Smith’s enthusiasm, but the 250th anniversary of the founding of the US feels more like a wake than a celebration.

Eeryn · Florida:

This is interesting because I and so many others will not be celebrating at all.

Howards End: Excerpts

By all means subscribe to charities – subscribe to them largely – but don’t get carried away by absurd schemes of Social Reform. ... there is no Social Question – except for a few journalists who try to get a living out of the phrase. There are just rich and poor, as there always have been and always will be. Point me out a time when men have been equal ... Point me out a time when desire for equality has made them happier. No, no. You can’t. There always have been rich and poor. I’m no fatalist. Heaven forbid! But our civilization is moulded by great impersonal forces and there always will be rich and poor. You can’t deny it, and you can’t deny that, in spite of all, the tendency of civilization has on the whole been upward.

· · · · · 

Reaction against the Wilcoxes had eaten into her life until she was scarcely sane. … Paul had faded, but the magic of his caress endured. And where there is enjoyment of the past there may also be reaction – propagation at both ends. 

· · · · · 

London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilisation which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater than they have ever borne before. Under cosmopolitanism, if it comes, we shall receive no help from the earth. Trees and meadows and mountains will only be a spectacle, and the binding force that they once exercised on character must be entrusted to Love alone. May Love be equal to the task!

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Hilton was asleep, or at the earliest, breakfasting. Leonard noticed the contrast when he stepped out of it into the country. Here men had been up since dawn. Their hours were ruled, not by a London office, but by the movements of the crops and the sun. That they were men of the finest type only the sentimentalists can declare. But they kept to the life of daylight. They are England’s hope. Clumsily they carry forward the torch of the sun, until such time as the nation sees fit to take it up. Half clodhopper, half board-school prig, they can still throw back to a nobler stock, and breed yeomen.

At the chalk pit a motor passed him. In it was another type, whom Nature favours – the Imperial. Healthy, ever in motion, it hopes to inherit the earth. It breeds as quickly as the yeoman, and as soundly; strong is the temptation to acclaim it as a super-yeoman, who carries his country’s virtue overseas. But the Imperialist is not what he thinks or seems. He is a destroyer. He prepares the way for cosmopolitanism, and though his ambitions may be fulfilled, the earth that he inherits will be grey.

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Howards End, E. M. Forster (1910)

“Daring and Dazzling” in LA

Macaulay (14 April 2026) comments:

As the article states, "ancient Greek sculptures, Indonesian batiks, old master paintings and midcentury automobiles presented on equal footing." Pretending that mediocre and trivial artworks are exactly as important as great and masterly artworks is the same tired, even exhausted, narrative that our worthless cultural institutions have been pushing for decades. 

It's entirely predictable that the feather-brained progressives in charge of LACMA would celebrate the elimination of all the frameworks and categories that allow for actual understanding of artwork in its specific historical context, in favor of an empty and meaningless "equality." 

It's why progressives are determined to eliminate all of the orders and structures that give life meaning and integrity -- [because] they stand in the way of "equality." Also not surprising that this lavish new building is simply a shapeless, ugly, concrete blob. 

What a pathetic and exhausted civilization.

Wind turbine diesel generators

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