In a single bold statement, President Trump shattered decades of failed Middle East policy. Standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he declared that Gaza’s population of two million people should leave for other countries.
The truth hits like thunder: For decades, Gaza’s radicalized population has backed Hamas in its war against Israel. The whole world stands complicit in this evil, funneling billions of dollars to Gaza – money transformed into terror tunnels, ammunition, and rockets aimed at Jewish hearts. President Trump’s proposal tears away this veil of diplomatic lies. He speaks a truth no other world leader dares utter: Things cannot continue as they have until now!
The vast majority of Israelis, including leaders on the left, are celebrating President Trump’s proposal. Natan Sharansky, the legendary human rights activist, defended Trump’s “out of the box thinking” as more realistic than failed policies like the Oslo Accords. Yet many American Jewish leaders are attacking President Trump for his proposal.
One rabbi recently wrote “l take for granted that forcibly uprooting a population is ethically indefensibleā¦ Not only is ethnic cleansing wrong, but even using the threat of ethnic cleansing to achieve one’s ends is immoral.”
Just like that, myopic American Jewish leaders slander President Trump and beg him to allow 2 million terror supporting Palestinians to remain in Gaza, where they can be a perpetual threat to the Jewish people. These leaders embrace the same fatal weakness that plagued our ancestors in the desert.
Where have we seen this pattern of weak Jewish leadership before? What does the Torah teach us about leaders who choose imagined moral superiority over the survival of their own people?
When the Israelites fled Egypt, they faced Pharaoh’s army at the Red Sea. Instead of standing firm in faith, the leaders turned against Moses:
These weren’t common people expressing natural fear – they were leaders who had witnessed ten supernatural plagues crush mighty Egypt. Yet at the first sign of danger, they begged to return to slavery. Today’s Jewish establishment displays the same moral cowardice.
After Hamas butchered, raped, and tortured Jews on October 7th – livestreaming their atrocities for the world to see – these weak leaders still preach restraint. They call President Trump’s proposal “ethnic cleansing,” ignoring both historical precedent and biblical wisdom.
Moving Gaza’s population to other countries is not ethnic cleansing – it is national survival. The partition of India relocated twenty million people to prevent civil war. Europe accepted the deportation of Sudetenland Germans as legitimate under far less extreme circumstances. When facing an enemy that embeds military infrastructure in civilian areas, recruits children as fighters, and vows endless war, relocation becomes a moral imperative.
King David would never have allowed such enemies to remain on Israel’s borders. As he declared:
Hard to imagine that David would consider the transfer of Gaza’s population to be ethnic cleansing. He would say that they are lucky to not receive the punishment they truly deserve! He understood that divine mercy must be balanced with divine justice. The Sages teach, “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first” (Sanhedrin 72a). This isn’t a suggestion – it’s a binding commandment. Gaza’s population elected Hamas, celebrated its atrocities and maintains its genocidal ideology. No nation in history has tolerated such an enemy while facing global condemnation for self-defense.
The choice is clear: we can succumb to those who tremble before world opinion, or we can follow in the footsteps of Moses and King David – leaders who took bold action to defend the Jewish people against its enemies. The future of Israel hangs in the balance. The time for clear, principled leadership is now.
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