In 2003, then Prime Minister Arial Sharon proposed that Israel completely withdraw from the Gaza Strip, a proposal which became official Israeli government policy, and, in February of 2005, the Knesset approved the Disengagement Plan Implementation Law. The Jewish settlers who refused to leave were forcibly evacuated by the Israeli Defence Force. Though Israel still provided utilities to Gaza, the Palestinians living therein had the opportunity to make of the land what they would.

Gaza is resource-poor, but it does have some of the best beaches on the Mediterranean Sea. The Palestinians could have, had they so chosen, built a tremendous beach resort nation, which would attract hundreds of thousands of European vacationers, and their euros, and created a reasonably prosperous and peaceful ‘country,’ one which could have been the model for a peaceful Palestinian state.

Instead, they elected the Hamas terrorist group as their government, and Hamas turned Gaza into just another terrorist base, occasionally firing rockets into Israel. The current troubles are the result of just more of that.

There aren’t that many fighters in Hamas, but the ‘civilian’ population of Gaza provide them with what they need: food, clothing, shelter and hiding place from the IDF. While Hamas are the ones who start the troubles, the much larger civilian population are responsible for enabling Hamas to do so. They have reaped what they have sown.

And it looks like Philadelphia wants to emulate Gaza!

Philly DA Larry Krasner beats primary challenger Carlos Vega by wide margin in closely watched race

Krasner’s primary win puts a second four-year term easily in reach after he campaigned on his record of criminal justice reform.

by Chris Brennan and Sean Collins Walsh | Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner easily defeated Democratic primary challenger Carlos Vega on Tuesday, taking a giant step toward winning a second term after campaigning on his record of criminal justice reform.

The Associated Press projected Krasner as the winner over Vega late Tuesday night. With 22% of the projected votes counted, Krasner held a wide advantage, 65% to 35%. In a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans seven to one, Krasner is now very likely to win November’s general election. He won the 2017 general election with 75% of the vote.

“Four years ago we promised reform and a focus on serious crime,” Krasner told supporters at a Center City hotel Tuesday night. “We kept those promises. And this time they put us back in office for what we have done. Not ideas, not promises, but realities.”

Krasner, 60, was a defense and civil rights lawyer for three decades, with a long record of suing the Philadelphia police before he was elected as a reformer in 2017. That victory helped propel him to the forefront of a new crop of progressive prosecutors across the country, a reform movement that was tested this election in Philadelphia by rising violent crime.

According to the Philadelphia Police Department’s Current Crime Statistics page, 198 people have been murdered in the City of Brotherly Love so far this year, a 40.43% increase over the same date last year, and last year ended with 499 homicides, just one short of the record set in 1990, the height of the crack cocaine wars. Philadelphia is on track for over 520 murders in 2021.

Well, the voters in Philly have spoken! They have chosen a ‘prosecutor’ who is softer-than-soft on crime, and who has made more people in the city victims of crime. Like the voters in Gaza, who chose Hamas terrorists to run their territory, the voters in Philadelphia have chosen their own form of terrorism, and now they get to live with the results. They have reaped what hey have sown.