It’s been roughly two years, almost to the hour, since Gazans streamed across the border fence to rape, murder, and kidnap Israeli civilians (more than 800 murdered):
The Gazans also took hostage and/or murdered people from other countries, e.g., Thailand (which recognized a sovereign State of Palestine in 2012), killing at least 79 non-Israelis. Examples from the BBC:
We’re informed than the Gazans have had no food, no electricity, no shelter, and no Internet for two years. Here are some recent photos from UNRWA (all of the fighters and “civilians” who perpetrated the October 7 attacks were graduates of UNRWA schools and some UNRWA employees directly participated in murders and kidnapping) of children who haven’t had any food for two years:
They’re playing their violins, undamaged after what we’re told has been “carpet bombing”, and sitting/standing within an apparently undamaged school, after what we’re told has been specific targeting of schools (UN) by tanks, artillery, and 500 lb. bombs:
Instead of foraging for scarce food after two years of “famine”, the kids are encouraged to expend extra calories by running around (on a perfect-condition patio surrounded by perfect-condition walls?):
See also this video, posted September 20, 2025, of Gazans who’ve received “10 million health consultations” at the clinic, in which PCs are fully powered and everyone seems to be of normal weight.
The Japanese and Germans felt defeated towards the end of World War II and were in no mood to continue the war or start another one. Based on the photos, videos, and interviews coming out of Gaza, there is no indication of any Gazan believing that the Gazans have been defeated. The New York Times followed up with 100 out of the 700 Gazans they’ve interviewed since October 7, 2023. Not a single interviewee mentions wanting to abandon the goal of destroying the Zionist entity. Nobody wants to surrender, recognize Israel, or release hostages. What Gazans want, it seems, is a victory over Israel at a lower personal cost, e.g., via emigration to Europe or the U.S. and letting the Gazans who stay in Gaza carry on fighting.
The Hamas leadership, consistent with popular opinion surveys, explicitly says that everything since October 7 has gone better than planned (CNN):
The question for today is where we think the Gazans will be in two additional years. Let’s suppose that the answer to Government restart or Hamas deal will happen first? is “Hamas-Israel deal”. The fighting in Gaza ends tomorrow. What will the Gazans be doing two years from now? Will any still be living in tents? How many attacks will Gazans have perpetrated against Israeli civilians, e.g., by firing rockets? (The fighting can continue long after the Islamic Resistance Movement (“Hamas”) signs a deal because the Hamas folks can legitimately say that they don’t control Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Army of Islam (Jaysh al-Islam; “has called upon Muslims to carry out lone wolf attacks against Israel”), Jaysh al-Ummah (“Jaysh al-Ummah has criticized Hamas as being too moderate and not focused enough on Islamist projects”), the Abdul al-Qadir al-Husseini Brigades, the Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade, or a rebooted Jund Ansar Allah.) What percent of Gazan GDP will be money extracted from U.S. taxpayers, who’ve historically been the biggest enablers of the Gazans’ military efforts (by being the biggest suppliers of cash to fund all of the basics, e.g., shelter, food, health care, education, etc., and thus enabling Gazans to spend up to 100 percent of their productive energies on preparing for a river-to-the-sea liberation)? Will the Gazans have launched another October 7-style attack? (my prediction: no, because it will take closer to 4-5 years to rearm and for the Israelis to become complacent)
Health consultations amid a genocide. Weird.
That’s a good point, Mitch. Also UNRWA is providing “emergency learning and psychosocial support” (above-cited tweet) during what we’re told is a “genocide”. What emergency learning needs does a person who is about to be killed have?
One explanation for the dental health consultations:
Nutella Fever: It Seems Like a European Country, But it’s Gaza
https://www.jfeed.com/analysis/gaza-nutella-cafe-reality
All the questions you raised at the end of your post are valid. However, you left out the *most* important one: What will Gaza’s population be in two years?
Keep in mind, their birth rate is extremely high and even during the so-called “suffering” of the past two years under the IDF, with over 67,000 reported casualties [1], the population has continued to grow, with families making babies throughout the conflict.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war
Thanks, George. Production of future Hamas voters/fighters in Gaza has indeed continued unabated, it seems. https://www.savethechildren.net/news/about-130-children-born-daily-gaza-amid-total-siege-aid-and-goods is from April 2025 and says “There are about 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza”. From October 2023: “An estimated 50,000 pregnant women are caught up in the conflict” (https://media.un.org/unifeed/en/asset/d312/d3129095 ).
I asked Grok “extrapolating from the past 20 years of population growth, how long will it be before the population of Gaza exceeds the population of Germany?” Answer: https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_7fe49e05-ca69-49a9-b4cc-59d61971ae9e
(Gaza grows at 2.6% per year and Germany at 0.12% so the curves cross in 150 years, at which point the noble Gazans will number 85.3 million.)
Phil, every time I read one of your posts I feel a sense of revulsion, and my Sanctimonious voice becomes more Enraged. Following one of your recent posts, I noted that you had outdone even your own inherent depravity…but here you have exceeded even that post. There is only one thing that Michelle and I despise more than America and Western Civilization generally, and that is the evil Jews and their Colonization Genocide in the Middle East, which was of course a Peaceful area until they arrived. As always, I am Angry and god willing our Noble Hamas Brothers will vanquish the evil Jews in good time. Allahu Akbar!
Thank you, Barack, and congratulations once again on your Nobel Peace Prize. If you could be selected as World Leader and given the absolute power that is rightfully yours (with a defrosted Joe Biden at your side) we would all be in a better place (and the Jews of Israel would certainly all be in “a better place”, if you know what I mean).
Unfortunately, god is too busy punishing the starter of the Palisades fire to punish the Greenspun attackers. What a weird case, a crazy Uber driver who called 911 after he started the fire, firefighters putting out the fire, then it starting again. Then they sniffed his chatgpt prompts for signs of evil.
Phil, Any comments on the 60000 Gazans killed? And the people being killed in the West Bank? Also why has Israel shamelessly occupied the land of Palestine?
Comments on 600000 bazillion killed in Gaza should be posed to Hamas, which attacked with intention to fight it out in a densely populated area, in purposely build under residential buildings and hospital tunnel system which is larger then NYC subway system.
I’m not sure that anything interesting can be said about humans being killed in a war, even if the humans are part of a model society such as Hamas-ruled Gaza. The definition of war is that people get killed. What’s interesting about the situation of the Arabs who call themselves “Palestinians” is that they weren’t forcibly transferred after the 1967 war, as has been typical after similar wars. After the Arabs rejected https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine and couldn’t win the immediate military victory that they expected, it’s kind of surprising that, for example, the Arabs who lived in the West Bank weren’t forced to move to Jordan (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_(1944%E2%80%931950) for a standard post-war population transfer).
American progressives are kind of surprising in their obsession with Israel. They reject international law, apparently (the United Nations establishment of the State of Israel) and want the Jews of Israel to go back to where they came from (a plurality from Muslim countries, such as Iran, Syria, Morocco, Iraq, etc.; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_world , some from Russia, and some from Europe (probably quite a few from the UK pretty soon!)). But they’re not generally interested in doing anything to return North American land to the people who are, according to progressives, the rightful owners. Here’s a biography from a mother in Maskachusetts: “I currently reside with my family on the ancestral and occupied lands of Nonantum of the Indigenous Massachusett people, whose name was appropriated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I commit to being LGBTQIA2S+ affirming and anti-racist in my personal and professional life. My pronouns are she/her/hers.”” Why won’t she go back to wherever her ancestors were from? Or at least give the land underneath her house to a Native American and start paying rent? Along these lines, the latest occupiers of what is properly Native American land are, according to the NYT, Arabs who call themselves “Palestinians”: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/nyregion/palestinians-new-jersey-gaza-war.html
“Paterson is the longtime center of New Jersey’s large and thriving Palestinian community. Located 15 miles west of Manhattan, it can seem in some places like a country unto itself, especially in the neighborhood of South Paterson, where Arabic speakers predominate, many businesses fly Palestinian flags and a section of Main Street has been officially renamed Palestine Way.”
(see also, Dearborn, Michigan and Minneapolis)
But it is tough to find anything new or original to say regarding these land acknowledgers!