NYT article about the real problems of Gaza – NY Post stunned by the content

Cursor Info summarizes a New York Times article in which Gaza native Ahmed Fouad Al-Khatib calls for the expulsion of Hamas. The author criticizes Western activists for romanticizing the group and claims that Hamas built a totalitarian system of terror that destroyed the enclave's prospects. The publication caused a stir at the NY Post.

Cursor Info covers a resonant publication in The New York Times — a column by Gaza native Ahmed Fouad Al-Khatib titled 'For Gaza to Recover, Hamas Must Be Expelled.' The author, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, recalls his childhood in Gaza in the early 2000s, when the enclave had an airport, industry, and hopes for statehood — all of which, he says, were destroyed by Hamas's seizure of power. He accuses the group of creating a totalitarian system of terror: suppressing dissent, secret police, and looting humanitarian aid. Special emphasis is placed on criticizing Western pro-Palestinian activists, who, in the author's view, romanticize an organization holding two million people hostage. Al-Khatib sees the only path to Gaza's revival as the complete removal of Hamas from power, disarmament, and deradicalization. The New York Post called the text a myth-shattering piece about 'liberation resistance.'