When projects fail miserably, they should not be expanded – they should be ditched. The 75+ year project called the UNRWA did not just fail – it created a vicious cycle of endless failure that could never be stopped.
The truth is that some anti-Israel people actually wanted the “failure” to happen. So, it all depends on one’s perspective. Perhaps in the end, it was a total success. It successfully perpetuated the issue of Arab hatred to the very existence of the State of Israel by a downtrodden group of Arabs that had very little way out of their situation.
To be blunt about it, many Arab countries in and around Israel wanted Israel to have to perennially deal with a fifth column of angry Arabs in their midst or right on their borders. Their goal then – as it is now – was to always force Israel to have to struggle with terrorism in all kinds of forms from an angry Arab minority.
The amount of money that has been funneled into these refugee camps over the decades should be one of the top 10 DOGE examples of financial waste. The number is not in he tens of millions. It is in the realm of hundreds of millions of dollars. All it brought was more and more terror. Tunnels under sand require lots of cement. The impressive thing about this 2nd Trump administration is that nearly every idea that Donald Trump is pushing is a massive change from the past policies.
Rather than just stopping the free-flow of funds and illogically hoping that somehow this time they won’t be used to fund terror activities, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Michael Walz and others have decided to implement a complete change to the status quo. Just get rid of the whole concept of endless Gaza refugees by moving them to Arab countries with financial incentives for them to allow for upward mobility.
Millions of Ukrainians moved to Poland and the rest of Europe because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Millions of Arabs have left Syria and Iraq because of Civil Wars there. That is a normal response. The solution is not to force them to stay in an impossible situation. They will have a better life elsewhere. The same goes for those who leave Gaza.
Moreover, when Gaza is turned into a tourist resort that is a symbol of peace in the Middle East, it will serve as an example of how to properly handle problems and not perpetuate them.