MARK DUBOWITZ: Don't believe the spin about starving Gazans. Trump could end the 'genocide' with four words
By Mark Dubowitz and Ben Cohen
Daily Mail
Jul 30, 2025
(L-R) French
President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, US
President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the G7 summit in Canada on June 16, 2025. Canada's Carney has joined Macron and Starmer in recognizing a Palestinian state If Western governments and their partners in the Arab world truly cared about feeding hungry Palestinians in Gaza, their response to the current humanitarian crisis in the coastal enclave would look very different than it does today.
On Tuesday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the United Kingdom may soon follow the lead of French President Emmanuel Macron and officially recognize a Palestinian State, if – by September – Israel does not agree to a ceasefire with Hamas and allow more aid to flow into Gaza.
In response, President Donald Trump dodged.
'I don't mind [Starmer] taking a position,' the president told reporters.
Trump should 'mind.'
The
UK's recognition of a Palestinian state would, of course, be largely
symbolic. They cannot wish a new nation into existence. Palestinian
state will only come about through a negotiated two-state solution with
Israel – one which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the majority of Israelis reeling from decades of Palestinian terrorism reject.
But
if Hamas – the current authoritarian power in Gaza – were to be
destroyed than the dynamics change. Why, then, do Western leaders –
repeatedly – throw Hamas a lifeline?
The
sad reality is that the enablers of the sufferings of Gazans are not in
Jerusalem, but in France, the United Kingdom, the United States and any
number of countries where thoughtless empathy – detached from facts,
history, and responsibility – has replaced strategic, compassionate
thinking.
If
Western governments and their partners in the Arab world truly cared
about feeding hungry Palestinians in Gaza , their response to the
current humanitarian crisis in the coastal enclave would look very
different than it does today
Trump (right) told reporters that he doesn't 'mind' Starmer (left) 'taking a position'
Starmer
said that the United Kingdom may soon follow the lead of French
President Emmanuel Macron (pictured) and officially recognize a
Palestinian State, if – by September – Israel does not agree to a
ceasefire with Hamas and allow more aid to flow into Gaza For decades, the West has played an
indispensable role in shielding Hamas from the consequences of its
actions – and it does so again by putting the onus on Israel to solve
the escalating human tragedy in Gaza.
Whenever
Hamas has embedded fighters in hospitals, launched rockets from school
yards, or hoarded fuel and food meant for civilians, it has counted on a
Pavlovian reaction from the West: pity for Palestinians, blame for
Israel.
But who is really to blame when innocent Gazans, deployed by Hamas as human shields, are killed in retaliatory Israeli strikes?
The answer from the West – in one voice – must be: Hamas.
Instead,
European nations, France above all others, has shown an almost
compulsive need to virtue signal on this issue. Macron's decision to
support recognition of a Palestinian state – at the precise moment Hamas
is torturing Israeli hostages underground – is complicity, not
diplomacy.
Israel's Arab neighbors do the same.
Egypt
publicly postures as a mediator while quietly coordinating with Hamas.
Cairo controls the Rafah border crossing – Gaza's only outlet to the
Arab world. It could open it, allow more aid through, and even offer
refuge.
But Egypt, like much of the
Arab world, doesn't want to absorb Palestinian refugees or take
responsibility for Gaza. Instead, they heap pressure on Israel and then
blame it for the consequences.
The list
of enablers goes on: Qatari funds that prop up Hamas salaries, UN
agencies that act as de facto welfare arms of Hamas governance, and in
the United States, a vocal bloc of lawmakers who parrot Hamas talking
points with the same blockheaded certainty that underlies the pro-Hamas
encampments on college campuses.
Meanwhile,
editorial pages are filled with the sort of moralizing that feeds the
eliminationist fantasies of the pro-Hamas protestors to whom the Jewish
state is the root of all evil. It is an ugly moment for our
civilization, in which narcissistic posturing has blended with classic
antisemitism to generate plenty of heat, but no light.
But it's not too late to change course by helping Palestinians and not Hamas.
Whenever
Hamas has embedded fighters in hospitals, launched rockets from school
yards, or hoarded fuel and food meant for civilians, it has counted on a
Pavlovian reaction from the West: pity for Palestinians, blame for
Israel
Meanwhile,
editorial pages are filled with the sort of moralizing that feeds the
eliminationist fantasies of the pro-Hamas protestors to whom the Jewish
state is the root of all evil
A
Palestinian state will only come about through a negotiated two-state
solution with Israel – one which Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu
(pictured) now rejects
Imagine if
those same Western leaders – as well as legislators, diplomats, Arab
foreign ministries and the various organs of the United Nations –
reacted differently to the images of Palestinian suffering.
Instead
of issuing blanket condemnations of Israel for fighting a war imposed
upon it by the Hamas mass atrocities of October 7, 2023, they could help
shape the parameters that will bring the bloodshed to an end.
They
could recognize that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is a crisis of
food distribution, not supply. Rather than damning Israel, the
international community should work with the Israelis to ensure that
food gets to those who need it – particularly poorer families
languishing in the lower ranks of the patronage network which Hamas
operates in Gaza.
That means
circumventing the present delivery system that has been ruthlessly
exploited by Hamas. Doing so would bring relief to tens of thousands of
Palestinians and reassure them that they have a reliable food supply.
And there's more.
World
leaders could demand the immediate and unconditional release of the 50
remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza, 20 of whom are believed to still be
alive, striking at the main source of leverage that Hamas has enjoyed
throughout this war.
They could state clearly that there will be no reconstruction program for Gaza while Hamas stays in power.
All
this would accelerate the removal of Hamas – the only party to this
conflict that actually wants the Gazan population to starve, thereby
allowing it to cling to power.
After all, a Gaza without Hamas is an outcome Macron and Starmer say they desire.
A
Palestinian state must be conditioned on the dismantling of Hamas and
the solemn, irreversible recognition by the Palestinian leadership of
Israel's right to exist as a Jewish, democratic state.
For
his part, President Donald Trump and other American leaders must call
out these Western accomplices in the machinery of Palestinian misery –
and speak these four words: Hamas has no future.
Trump
should make clear that the path to peace requires the dismantlement of
Hamas. Until that happens, there will be only more war, more children in
rubble, and more crocodile tears from those who helped cause the
destruction.
Hamas survives on Western
weakness. If the world wants the suffering in Gaza to end, nothing less
than a total inversion of the narrative is necessary: no statehood
without recognition of Israel, no aid without disarmament, no more lies
about who is to blame.
It's time the free world stopped giving Hamas what it wants.
If Western governments and their partners in the Arab world truly cared about feeding hungry Palestinians in Gaza, their response to the current humanitarian crisis in the coastal enclave would look very different than it does today.
On Tuesday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the United Kingdom may soon follow the lead of French President Emmanuel Macron and officially recognize a Palestinian State, if – by September – Israel does not agree to a ceasefire with Hamas and allow more aid to flow into Gaza.
In response, President Donald Trump dodged.
'I don't mind [Starmer] taking a position,' the president told reporters.
Trump should 'mind.'
The UK's recognition of a Palestinian state would, of course, be largely symbolic. They cannot wish a new nation into existence. Palestinian state will only come about through a negotiated two-state solution with Israel – one which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the majority of Israelis reeling from decades of Palestinian terrorism reject.
But if Hamas – the current authoritarian power in Gaza – were to be destroyed than the dynamics change. Why, then, do Western leaders – repeatedly – throw Hamas a lifeline?
The sad reality is that the enablers of the sufferings of Gazans are not in Jerusalem, but in France, the United Kingdom, the United States and any number of countries where thoughtless empathy – detached from facts, history, and responsibility – has replaced strategic, compassionate thinking.
If Western governments and their partners in the Arab world truly cared about feeding hungry Palestinians in Gaza , their response to the current humanitarian crisis in the coastal enclave would look very different than it does today
Trump (right) told reporters that he doesn't 'mind' Starmer (left) 'taking a position'
For decades, the West has played an indispensable role in shielding Hamas from the consequences of its actions – and it does so again by putting the onus on Israel to solve the escalating human tragedy in Gaza.
Whenever Hamas has embedded fighters in hospitals, launched rockets from school yards, or hoarded fuel and food meant for civilians, it has counted on a Pavlovian reaction from the West: pity for Palestinians, blame for Israel.
But who is really to blame when innocent Gazans, deployed by Hamas as human shields, are killed in retaliatory Israeli strikes?
The answer from the West – in one voice – must be: Hamas.
Instead, European nations, France above all others, has shown an almost compulsive need to virtue signal on this issue. Macron's decision to support recognition of a Palestinian state – at the precise moment Hamas is torturing Israeli hostages underground – is complicity, not diplomacy.
Israel's Arab neighbors do the same.
Egypt publicly postures as a mediator while quietly coordinating with Hamas. Cairo controls the Rafah border crossing – Gaza's only outlet to the Arab world. It could open it, allow more aid through, and even offer refuge.
But Egypt, like much of the Arab world, doesn't want to absorb Palestinian refugees or take responsibility for Gaza. Instead, they heap pressure on Israel and then blame it for the consequences.
The list of enablers goes on: Qatari funds that prop up Hamas salaries, UN agencies that act as de facto welfare arms of Hamas governance, and in the United States, a vocal bloc of lawmakers who parrot Hamas talking points with the same blockheaded certainty that underlies the pro-Hamas encampments on college campuses.
Meanwhile, editorial pages are filled with the sort of moralizing that feeds the eliminationist fantasies of the pro-Hamas protestors to whom the Jewish state is the root of all evil. It is an ugly moment for our civilization, in which narcissistic posturing has blended with classic antisemitism to generate plenty of heat, but no light.
But it's not too late to change course by helping Palestinians and not Hamas.
Whenever Hamas has embedded fighters in hospitals, launched rockets from school yards, or hoarded fuel and food meant for civilians, it has counted on a Pavlovian reaction from the West: pity for Palestinians, blame for Israel
Meanwhile, editorial pages are filled with the sort of moralizing that feeds the eliminationist fantasies of the pro-Hamas protestors to whom the Jewish state is the root of all evil
A Palestinian state will only come about through a negotiated two-state solution with Israel – one which Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu (pictured) now rejects
Imagine if those same Western leaders – as well as legislators, diplomats, Arab foreign ministries and the various organs of the United Nations – reacted differently to the images of Palestinian suffering.
Instead of issuing blanket condemnations of Israel for fighting a war imposed upon it by the Hamas mass atrocities of October 7, 2023, they could help shape the parameters that will bring the bloodshed to an end.
They could recognize that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is a crisis of food distribution, not supply. Rather than damning Israel, the international community should work with the Israelis to ensure that food gets to those who need it – particularly poorer families languishing in the lower ranks of the patronage network which Hamas operates in Gaza.
That means circumventing the present delivery system that has been ruthlessly exploited by Hamas. Doing so would bring relief to tens of thousands of Palestinians and reassure them that they have a reliable food supply.
And there's more.
World leaders could demand the immediate and unconditional release of the 50 remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza, 20 of whom are believed to still be alive, striking at the main source of leverage that Hamas has enjoyed throughout this war.
They could state clearly that there will be no reconstruction program for Gaza while Hamas stays in power.
All this would accelerate the removal of Hamas – the only party to this conflict that actually wants the Gazan population to starve, thereby allowing it to cling to power.
After all, a Gaza without Hamas is an outcome Macron and Starmer say they desire.
A Palestinian state must be conditioned on the dismantling of Hamas and the solemn, irreversible recognition by the Palestinian leadership of Israel's right to exist as a Jewish, democratic state.
For his part, President Donald Trump and other American leaders must call out these Western accomplices in the machinery of Palestinian misery – and speak these four words: Hamas has no future.
Trump should make clear that the path to peace requires the dismantlement of Hamas. Until that happens, there will be only more war, more children in rubble, and more crocodile tears from those who helped cause the destruction.
Hamas survives on Western weakness. If the world wants the suffering in Gaza to end, nothing less than a total inversion of the narrative is necessary: no statehood without recognition of Israel, no aid without disarmament, no more lies about who is to blame.
It's time the free world stopped giving Hamas what it wants.
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