When the Allies occupied Germany following World War II, and the United States occupied Japan, we insisted on, and forced, the de-Nazification of Germany, and the removal of the militarists who led Japan into the war. We required a cultural change which would lead to peaceful governments, governments which would not start wars of conquest.
And it has worked! Neither Germany nor Japan has tried to conquer anyone, at least not through war, though their economic power has expanded far beyond their borders. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is insisting on the same thing when it comes to Gaza:
Netanyahu, leaving for DC: We’re working for Gaza deal on our terms, Hamas won’t be there; chance to greatly expand peace accords
By Lazar Berman | Sunday, July 6, 2025
Before boarding his flight to Washington, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel has an opportunity “to expand the circle of peace far beyond what we could have imagined.”
“We have already transformed the Middle East beyond recognition, and we now have a chance to bring a great future to the state of Israel, the people of Israel and the entire Middle East,” he says.
The premier also makes clear that Israel will not agree to a ceasefire and hostage release deal that ultimately allows Hamas to remain in the Gaza Strip. It is working for a deal “under the terms we agreed to,” he says.
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As for Gaza, Netanyahu says Israel has attained “great achievements” but still has “missions to complete. To date,” he says, “we have freed 205 of 255 hostages, 144 of them alive. Twenty living hostages remain and 30 who are fallen. I am determined, we are determined, to bring back all of them.”
“And we are determined to ensure that Gaza will no longer constitute a threat to Israel. That means, we will not allow a situation that encourages more kidnappings, more murders, more executions, more invasions,” he says, as Israel’s negotiating team travels to Doha for indirect talks with Hamas. “That means one thing: eliminating Hamas’s military and governing capabilities. Hamas will not be there.”
This will be hard to achieve, because Hamas are more than an irregular military faction, but are the whole culture of the Gazans, and the whole education system in Gaza.
The military occupation of Japan ended on April 28, 1952, 6½ years after the surrender. In Germany, the Allies — exclusive of the Soviet Union — replaced the military governors in their occupation zones with civilians, and in 1952 the occupation by the Western powers ended, although we retained miliotary bases in the country.
If it took the better part of seven years for the Western nations to reculturize Japan and Germany, is it reasonable to think an Israeli occupation of Gaza could purge that area of Hamas and the cultural desire to kill all of the Jews in any less time?
The militarists who ran Japan, and the Nazis who controlled the Third Reich, were readily identifiable: there were plenty of government records concerning who the individuals were. Do such records exist where Hamas are concerned? If such records do exist, is there any reason to believe that Hamas won’t destroy them? The German and Japanese governments were thoroughly destroyed in the war, but much of Hamas leadership, and probable records, are not in Gaza but Doha, Qatar. The leadership of Hamas inside Gaza have been mostly sent to their 72 bacha bazi boys in Jahannam, but the brave Hamas warriors in Doha still live, and apparently live well, in Qatar. They haven’t been captured, or committed suicide, as were the Japanese militarist leaders and the top Nazis, but are living and eating well. No matter how much devastation the Israel Defense Forces wreak on Gaza, the absentee leadership of Hamas are in no danger.
Adolf Hitler at least stayed in Germany until the bitter end. Josef Stalin, with German troops bearing down on Moscow and the rest of the Soviet government beating feet east, remained at his post. But the ‘Palestinians’ in Gaza have accepted a ‘leadership’ of brave, brave warriors who live in luxurious exile in Qatar, a leadership which have no reason to surrender, a leadership which do not feel the pain of the war personally.
Why should they surrender?
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