Dissolving Gaza

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Gazans are leaving Gaza. Many more plan to leave. Hamas is hammered. Popular protest erupts.

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Hundreds of Gazans marched through the northern town of Beit Lahiya carrying white flags and chanting anti-Hamas slogans, according to videos posted from the scene which showed participants calling for peace, press coverage, and the release of hostages.

In a rare public uprising against Hamas rule in Gaza, demonstrators took to the streets outside the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza. Footage shared on social media on Tuesday [today, March 25 2025] captured a crowd of protesters demanding an end to what they called “tyrant rule” with chants of “Out, out, out! Hamas out!” and “We want to live!” echoing through the streets.

**Over the past week, Israeli forces have eliminated multiple senior Hamas officials in rapid succession, exposing fractures within the group’s internal governance and forcing its operatives into survival mode. **

Meanwhile, President Trump’s renewed vision for Gaza — entailing voluntary resettlement and economic revival — has gained traction, with polls showing more than half of Gazans expressing a desire to leave.

As Hamas struggles to maintain control and protesters demand change from within, the stage is being set for a historic shift in the region’s future.

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President Trump has told President al-Sisi of Egypt that his country must accept Gazans or no more aid money.

Egypt does not have to keep them. It could be a staging place. Let the Gazans disperse.

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#3

The threat of cutting off aid may get results. And let them disperse, as long as they don’t come here!
It’s a nice surprise to see some Gazans protesting against Hamas, but I hope they don’t become a target of Hamas now, too.

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Daniel Greenfield understands the protests differently. He is much more likely than I to be right.

He writes at FrontPage:

There is no meaningful opposition to Hamas in Gaza. The Muslim Brotherhood terror group retains the support of a majority of Arab Muslims occupying Gaza. While they’re far from enthusiastic about it, the only other game in town is the PLO’s Palestinian Authority which tends to be far more hated.

Plus Hamas has a way of shutting down protests very fast and in the most direct way possible.

The Arabs in Gaza live in a tribal society of clans. Everything is determined by connections to large families. Those families have a lot at stake and scramble for a place in the power blocs that run everything. Which means they don’t just have protests.

So what’s going on in Gaza where hundreds appear to be protesting Hamas? One basic question is why now?

The theme of the protests was a call for Hamas to step down and end the fighting. The sudden interest in ending the war is tied to the so-called Arab Plan for Gaza moving forward. Under that plan, a fake “technocratic” front group will run the place under the “supervision” of the PLO using ‘Palestinian’ troops trained by Jordan and Egypt. Hamas will supposedly not have a voice in the running of Gaza.

In reality, this is yet another variation of the same scheme that has been repeatedly proposed in which Hamas runs things from behind the scenes while a front group controlled by the PLO collects foreign aid.

(The Arab Plan estimates that rebuilding Gaza will cost $53 billion.)

The goal is creating an Islamic terrorist state in Gaza and Judea and Samaria with international recognition.

The sudden “protests” against Hamas are meant to manufacture the myth that Arab Muslims occupying Gaza are ready for a new government.

Hamas didn’t greet the protests cheerfully, but neither did it cracked down as hard as it could. Pro-Hamas outlets like Al Jazeera and Middle East Eye are not acknowledging the protests while too many pro-Israel people are foolishly celebrating them as some sort of step forward. For the moment this is an internal dispute between two Jihadist groups, one overt and one covert. It doesn’t indicate peace or coexistence is here.

The protest is meant for public consumption in the Arab world and in the United States. It’s not a sea change, but the same old scam.

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#5

Yes, it all makes sense now! Knowing how these people operate, Greenfield’s take is likely correct.
Its just a pretense to keep the aid money flowing in, which will immediately be used on more weapons to attack Israel with. Quite predictable.

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#6

BUT:

The family of 22-year-old Odai Nasser Saadi Al-Rubai, who was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by Hamas militias, opened fire during his funeral and vowed to avenge his death. Mourners turned the funeral into a protest against Hamas, chanting: "Hamas out, out!"

https://x.com/IhabHassane/status/1906095986306400577

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#7

Wow. Sounds like at least some of them are serious!

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