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October 1, 2021

No Amount of Economic Support Will Convince Hamas to Relinquish Terror

Relearning what Jabotinsky knew.

In his 1923 essay “On the Iron Wall,” Vladimir Jabotinsky warns against believing that Palestinian Arabs “can be bribed to abandon to us their claim to priority in Palestine in return for cultural and economic advantages.” Doron Matza argues that today’s Israeli policymakers have been similarly seduced by the prospect of convincing Hamas to cease its attacks in exchange for the creation of economic opportunities and allowing an influx of foreign aid to Gaza:

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