Yeah, but the sad thing is that the poorest countries often spend an even higher percentage of their income on military. That's what we're watching play out, over there.
All of that money, and it went to drones and pipe bombs and birth jihad, rather than to sustainable development and uplifting the citizenry. Martyr checks for moms with too many sons because they couldn't figure out where babies come from, so that they happily take money to strap a bomb vest on one and cry some crocodile tears for the TV. Charming.
The truth is, the Palestinians living in Israel are better-served by their government. That's why the migration only flows in one direction. Talk is cheap and Internet rhetoric is easy and being antisemitic makes people feel edgy, even though it's so tiresome and literally medieval.
The people on the ground, whose lives and well-being are personally at stake, have voted with their feet.
Everyone who managed to leave any territory run by Hamas is 💯 winning at life, even if they moved to one run by a bunch of Jews. The end.
Even the West Bank is much better. Everyone has sort of forgotten about it, but it's bigger, richer, and safer than Gaza. And it's run by Fatah. That has its own problems, but its an impossible challenge to be worse than Hamas. At least Fatah would care, if you literally were starving to death.
Hamas is a Muslim Brotherhood spinoff, so Westerners supporting them must be daft. The last thing we need is a bunch of battle-hardened Islamists getting such a densely-populated foothold on the Mediterranean Sea. There's a reason why Egypt has walled them in: everyone knows they're violent fanatics. They are going to keep fighting until the entire world is under Islam. Gaza is just the place they currently took this fight to. Gaza and Lebanon. And the Sinai peninsula. And... You can't negotiate with people like that.
And all of this perpetual jihad nonsense has crippled efforts to lobby against Jewish settlement encroachment, which is what started the whole thing. It's actually resulted in the settlements spreading faster, as the Israeli government points to Gaza, to justify harsher action against the West Bank, as they know most foreigners don't get the difference. They're now going to double-down on Gaza, while settling at record speeds, on the other end. Nobody is paying attention; they're too riveted by the Gaza gore. People like dramatic pictures, not dull reports about seemingly-peaceful, home-y people paving roads and building houses and drilling wells.
Worst own-goal in history, since the Germans decided they needed more Lebensraum.
Proves that the most valuable thing is property, tho, especially women and land. And you need land to put the women on, so land is the apex property.
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