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Gulf, France aid Gaza, Russia evacuates citizens
A United Arab Emirates humanitarian convoy set off from Al Arish on Sunday heading to Rafah. The convoy will be distributed as part of the UAE’s efforts to aid civilians in Gaza. This is called Gallant Knight 3, and it was “launched under the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to support the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip,” the UAE’s WAM news agency noted on Sunday.
This is one of a series of efforts in the works to support Gaza this week. It is important because it comes in the context of wider moves to try to end the conflict. For instance, there are talks in the region and also talks between Arab countries and China, about efforts to end the fighting. Humanitarian aid is likely one of the easiest ways to support Gaza without getting into the complexities of a ceasefire or other issues.
Arab News reported on Monday that “a 14th plane carrying aid from Saudi Arabia for Gaza on Sunday arrived at El-Arish International Airport in Egypt, the Saudi Press Agency reported.” This report noted that it consisted of two ambulances out of 20 scheduled to be sent from Saudi Arabia. This campaign comes under the auspices of the Saudi aid agency KSrelief.
The UAE convoy “comprises 13 trucks carrying a total of 272.5 tonnes of aid. These include 10 trucks carrying 16,800 food packages weighing 252 tonnes to support 84,000 people, and 3 trucks carrying 360 tents weighing 20.5 tonnes,” WAM reported. “The UAE is continuing its humanitarian aid drive to support the Palestinian people as part of Operation ‘Gallant Knight 3’ through the operation of an air bridge. To date, the air bridge facilitated 49 flights aimed at alleviating the suffering of civilians in the Gaza Strip during these dire circumstances.”Aid sets sail for Egypt to enter through Rafah crossing
France is also sending a large ship to Egypt. The Dixmude, an amphibious helicopter carrier, set sail for Egypt this week. VOA news said that France is also sending a flight. “A charter flight carrying more than 10 tons of medical supplies is also planned for the start of the week,” VOA reported. “France will also contribute to the European effort with medical equipment on board European flights on November 23 and 30,” the French presidential office said.
Meanwhile Russian state media said that “Another group of Russian citizens, evacuated from the Gaza Strip earlier, has been delivered to Russia,” TASS reported in Moscow. “A [Russian] Ministry of Emergency Situations Il-76 plane flying from Cairo landed in Moscow’s Domodedovo airport. It delivered a group of 117 Russians, who previously evacuated through the Rafah checkpoint. During the flight, they were accompanied by Ministry medics and psychologists,” the TASS report said.
These are all important moves. Along with previous Jordanian air drops and the UAE’s decision to set up a field hospital, many countries are contributing to Gaza. As the conflict continues and aid needs become acute these efforts will take on more meaning.
The key element of Saudi Arabia’s plan for Gaza is the removal of Hamas from power and its disarmament, without relocating Palestinians to Arab states, a source within the Saudi royal family told KAN News on Thursday.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is set to host a meeting of Arab leaders on Friday to discuss the initiative, which is being positioned as an alternative to the proposal put forward by former US president Donald Trump. The summit will include leaders from Egypt, Jordan, and five Gulf states, KAN reported.
A senior Egyptian official added: “The US administration has conveyed to Arab states that it is open to alternative plans regarding Gaza, beyond Trump’s initiative.”
Donald Trump’s controversial vision for Gaza’s future
Earlier this month, Trump outlined a controversial vision for Gaza’s future, which included relocating Palestinian residents.
Speaking to Fox News, he said: “We will build beautiful and safe communities for 1.9 million Gazans. Maybe five communities, maybe six, or perhaps two. But we will create safe communities for them, a bit farther from the dangerous place they are in now. In the meantime, I will own the land. Think of it as real estate development for the future.”
Last week, it was reported that Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar were planning a joint summit to discuss Gaza’s future.
US President Donald Trump told King Abdullah of Jordan that Hamas must release all hostages, including all Americans, by Saturday and asked for the King’s assistance in ensuring that Hamas and leaders of the region understand the severity of the situation, the White House said Wednesday.
Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff stated that Hamas is a terrorist organization that should not be allowed to be part of the government in any part of Gaza.
“This is an unhealthy situation. They need to go,” Witkoff added.
“Donald Trump said everything we need to know; Saturday, 12:00,” Witkoff concluded, referring to the deadline by Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Hamas to return all hostages.Trump tells Jordanian king that US will ‘take Gaza’
Trump told Abdullah that the US is going “to take Gaza” in a meeting between the two on Tuesday.
“Palestinians will live safely in another location that is not Gaza,” he said, adding that the US wasn’t going to buy Gaza but rather “run it very properly.”
Trump asked under what authority the US would take Gaza, and he said under US authority. However, he said that the US would not personally develop Gaza.
This isn’t a metaphor anymore. Since October 7, the comparison between Hamas and the Nazis passed from a rhetorical device to an entrenched belief among the Israeli public.
A Jerusalem Post exclusive survey on Tuesday found that 51% of Israelis believe Hamas’ treatment of hostages is comparable to Nazi war crimes, while another 30% acknowledge similarities but stop short of full equivalence. Meanwhile, 11% reject the comparison outright, and eight percent remain unsure – which, in today’s reality, is just a polite way of saying, “I’d rather not answer that.”
Let’s be clear: This isn’t just emotion talking. This is not Israelis grasping for the most sensational historical reference they can find.
The numbers point to something profound: An awareness that Hamas isn’t just any terrorist organization but a movement informed by decades-old ideology whose roots reach all the way to Nazi propaganda. The notion of Hitler’s impact ending in some Berlin bunker is a Western mirage. Here, in Israel, where that same ideology was resurrected in blood and fire on October 7, nobody has the luxury of such illusions.German historian: Hamas atrocities an ‘ecstatic act of antisemitic slaughter’
Dr. Matthias Küntzel, a German historian and one of the leading experts on Islamist antisemitism, has spent years documenting how Nazi Germany actively spread antisemitic propaganda in the Middle East during World War II. In an interview with Makor Rishon, he explained how Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, personally collaborated with Hitler, helping to recruit Arab fighters for the Waffen-SS and ensuring Nazi antisemitism was embedded in the Arab world long after the Third Reich fell. Küntzel makes of the reaction to October 7 the evidence for this legacy, calling the Hamas atrocities an “ecstatic act of antisemitic slaughter.” Therein lies the difference between terrorism and genocide: one kills to attain political leverage, another for the mere, uncontainable joy of it.
This is not a theory, this is what Hamas says. Their 1988 charter is steeped in Nazi ideology, replete with references to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the same antisemitic conspiracy theory that Hitler relied on to justify his Final Solution. It doesn’t speak about occupation, it speaks of Jews as global manipulators that need to be wiped off the face of the earth.
ISGAP senior researcher Professor David Patterson put it starkly in his book From Hitler to Hamas: A Genealogy of Evil: Hamas doesn’t just want Israel gone, it wants Jews dead, everywhere.
He claims that while the Nazis framed their war as racial purification, Hamas frames it as religious duty. “The Nazi needed a Final Solution. The jihadist needs an apocalypse.” That’s why they burn children alive and then chant “Allah Akbar” over the ashes. That’s why they decapitate babies and distribute the footage like a recruitment video. That’s why they don’t even pretend to have a vision for governing Gaza—they are too consumed by their lust for Jewish blood to think beyond the next massacre.
For more than half of Israelis, these facts make the Hamas-Nazi comparison self-evident. This is a war against a force that wants Jewish existence erased. That understanding is shaping the way Israelis view the war. If Hamas is the new Nazis, then negotiating with them is as preposterous as asking Churchill to sign a ceasefire with Hitler in 1942. If Hamas is the new Nazis, then the only way forward is the one the Allies took in 1945: unconditional surrender, and total eradication.
Of course, 41% of Israelis demur, and some argue that the Holocaust was a uniquely industrialized genocide, and that Hamas, brutal though it is, doesn’t have the wherewithal to match that. That view is held particularly by opposition voters, only 47% of whom completely buy the Hamas-Nazi analogy, whereas 60% of coalition voters do. The queasiness is understandable—the profession of historians is unanimous in cautioning against turning every brutal regime into a Nazi clone.
But there is also a political calculation involved. Some are concerned that extending the Nazi comparison too far will harm Israel’s case diplomatically, alienating the allies already showing reluctance to support the war. Of course, there’s the unspoken fear that as long as Israel leans heavily onto the Holocaust analogy, it invites others to link the actions of the Israeli army with those of Nazi Germany – an obscene inversion already used on European campuses and in some American ones, by antisemites.
That said, that reluctance does nothing to change anything in the present situation. Hamas built itself on Nazi ideology, and it acts as such. Their not having the gas chambers means nothing, and that makes them no less than a genocidal movement, just their modus operandi is different. October 7 was not a war crime-it was the Holocaust on a small scale. That’s what Hamas fighters thought they were doing, and that’s why their sympathizers across the Arab world still call Hitler a hero.
The difference between 1942 and 2025 is that this time, the Jews aren’t helpless. The question now is whether Israel – and the world – has the stomach to act accordingly.
If history teaches us anything, it is this: Nazis don’t negotiate. They get destroyed.
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