DW Asks About Disarming Hamas, Omits Gaza's 17-Year Cage Match
Deutsche Welle's latest piece innocuously probes, 'Can Hamas be disarmed in Gaza?' - a question that dances around the 17-year blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt, turning Gaza into what many human rights organizations call an 'open-air prison.' This framing conveniently bypasses the historical context: how arming a besieged population becomes a predictable response to a desperate situation. The
narrative implies Hamas is a self-generating phenomenon, rather than a symptom. One might wonder if 'disarming Hamas' is truly the goal, or if it's a euphemism for 'removing Palestinian resistance to perpetual occupation.' The military 'solution' has achieved little beyond escalating cycles of violence since 2007. Perhaps a look at lifting the siege, rather than just stripping the occupied of
their last resort, would offer a clearer path to sustainable peace. (But then, who would profit?)