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Why Are We Helping the Bad Guys?

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It's been nearly two months since the most horrific terrorist attack since 9/11/2001 and one of the worst the world has ever seen. 

While the attack from Hamas, whose savages slaughtered 1,400 innocents in their homes, beds and at a festival on October 7, was new – the ideology behind it is unfortunately very well known. It's, of course, being enabled and perpetuated by Iran, but the U.S. and the "international community" also have dirty hands. 

This scourge of evil continues to exist because we repeatedly fund and enable it through so-called "humanitarian" efforts. Hamas oppresses its people by using foreign aid to back its genocidal ideology rather than pay for services or properly distribute basic resources. These things are reserved for the shahids. 

Over the years, water pipes and concrete delivered by the "international community" have been used to build rockets and 300 miles of tunnels underground. While civilians remain thirsty and vulnerable above ground, terrorists scurry safely underneath. Hamas officials have never built bomb shelters for the people they rule over. After all, that would prevent civilian deaths and a lack of propaganda for use against the Israeli Defense Forces. 

During a brief ceasefire this week, the White House touted new aid deliveries in the Gaza Strip and falsely claimed it would get to civilians. Hamas controls everything in Gaza and, in fact, is quite heavily supported by the population. 

"The first of three U.S. relief flights arrived in Egypt yesterday, delivering 54,000 pounds of humanitarian aid, including food and medicine, that will be taken into Gaza. This Administration will keep working to ensure that humanitarian aid reaches Palestinian civilians," the White House tweeted, despite there being no real mechanisms for verification or accountability as to where the aid goes or how it is used. 

In 2021, the Biden administration restarted funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. At the time, officials admitted the money and aid could, and likely would be, used for terrorism. 

"The Biden administration pushed through plans to distribute hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer aid to the Palestinians despite internal assessments that those plans could boost the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas," the Washington Free Beacon reported in August. "State Department officials in 2021 outlined the concerns in private communications, asking the Treasury Department to exempt them from laws that bar the U.S. government from injecting taxpayer aid into territories controlled by Palestinian terror groups. The Biden administration needed this authorization in order to move forward with its plans to unfreeze more than $360 million in U.S. funds for the Palestinian Authority that were cut off during the Trump administration due to the authority's support for terrorists."

On October 7, UNRWA first aid kits were found on Hamas fighters who entered Israel to slaughter and maim thousands, including tiny babies and their mothers. When hostages were violently taken back to the Gaza Strip, UNRWA was also involved. 

"One of the hostages, recently released from Gaza, revealed on Wednesday that he was held for nearly 50 days in an attic by a teacher from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. The story was publicized on X by Channel 13 journalist Almog Boker," the Jerusalem Post reports. "The hostage also said that the teacher who held him captive was a father of 10 children. He had barely been provided food or medical attention, and was locked away by the teacher, he said."

More broadly, the Biden administration continues to appease the Iranian regime, which seeks to eliminate Israel and the United States every minute of its existence, with billions of dollars. Officials claim the money is solely for peaceful purposes, but only a fool believes this lie. 

The cycle of Palestinian violence will never end if the West continues to prop it up. We aren't funding help for civilians. As emotionally satisfying as that concept might be for some, it's delusional and detached from reality. 

Instead, we're funding terrorism and making it more difficult, actually impossible, for Israel to get the job done for the sake of saving countless lives in the future. Not to mention winning the battle between good and evil and for the West. Most importantly, we're making it easier for terrorists to take Americans, many of whom remain hostage in Gaza, from their families. That is an immoral and unacceptable position. 

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