"Israel is About to Empty Gaza"
The Israeli government, backed by the Trump administration, is laying
the groundwork for the full expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza,
a move that has the potential to ignite a regional conflagration.
by Chris Hedges
"Israel is poised to carry out the largest campaign of ethnic cleansing since the end of World War II. Since March 2, it has blocked all food and humanitarian aid into Gaza and cut off electricity, so that the last water desalination plant no longer functions. The Israeli military has seized half of the territory - Gaza is 25 miles long and four to five miles wide - and placed two-thirds of Gaza under displacement orders, rendered “no-go zones,” including the border town of Rafah, which is encircled by Israeli troops.
On Friday Defence Minister Israel Katz announced that Israel will “intensify” the war against Hamas and use “all military and civilian pressure, including evacuation of the Gaza population south and implementing United States President [Donald] Trump’s voluntary migration plan for Gaza residents.”
Since Israel’s unilateral ending of the ceasefire on March 18 - which was never honored by Israel — Israel has been carrying out relentless bombing and shelling against civilians, killing over 1,400 Palestinians and wounding over 3,600, according to the Palestinian health ministry. An average of one hundred children are being killed daily according to the United Nations. Israel is, at the same time, inciting tensions with Egypt to lay what I suspect will be the groundwork for a mass expulsion of Palestinians into the Egyptian Sinai.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, echoing Katz, said Israel would not lift the total blockade until Hamas was “defeated” and the remaining 59 Israeli hostages were released. “Not even a grain of wheat will enter Gaza,” he vowed. But no one in Israel or Gaza expects Hamas, which has weathered the decimation of Gaza and sustained mass slaughter, to surrender or disappear.
The question no longer is will the Palestinians be deported from Gaza but when they will be pushed out and where they will go. The Israeli leadership is apparently torn between driving Palestinians over the border into Egypt or shipping them to countries in Africa. The U.S. and Israel have contacted three East African governments – Sudan, Somalia and the breakaway region of Somalia known as Somaliland – to discuss the resettlement of ethnically cleansed Palestinians.
The consequences of wholesale ethnic cleansing will be catastrophic, jeopardizing the stability of the Arab regimes allied with Washington and setting off firestorms of protests within Arab countries. It will likely mean the severing of diplomatic relations between Israel and its neighbors Jordan and Egypt, already close to the breaking point, and push the region closer to war.
Diplomatic relations have fallen to their lowest point since the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1979. The Israeli embassies in Cairo and Amman are largely empty with Israeli staff withdrawn over security concerns following the Oct. 7 incursion into Israel by Hamas and other armed Palestinian factions. Egypt has refused to accept the credentials of Uri Rothman, who was appointed to be the Israeli ambassador last September. Egypt did not name a new ambassador to Israel when former ambassador, Khaled Azmi, was recalled last year.
Israeli officials are accusing Egypt of violating the Camp David accords by increasing its military presence and building new military installations in the Northern Sinai, charges Egypt says are fabricated. The peace treaty’s annex permits additional Egyptian military hardware in the Sinai. Former Israeli chief of the general staff, Herzi Halevi, warned of what he calls Egypt’s “security threat.” Katz said that Israel would not allow Egypt to “violate the peace treaty” between the two countries signed in 1979.
Egyptian officials note that it is Israel that has violated the treaty by occupying the Philadelphi Corridor, also known as the Salahuddin Axis, which runs along the nine mile border between Gaza and Egypt and is supposed to be demilitarized. “Every Israeli action along Gaza’s border with Egypt constitutes hostile behavior against Egypt’s national security,” Egyptian General Mohammed Rashad, a former military intelligence chief, told the Arabic language newspaper, Asharq Al-Awsat. “Egypt cannot sit idly by in the face of such threats and must prepare for all possible scenarios.”
Israeli officials are openly calling for the “voluntary transfer” of Palestinians to Egypt. Knesset member, Avigdor Lieberman, stated that “displacing most Palestinians from Gaza to the Egyptian Sinai is a practical and effective solution.” He contrasted the high population density — Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on the planet - with the vast “untapped lands” in the Egyptian Northern Sinai and noted that Palestinians share a common culture and language with Egypt, making any deportation “natural.” He also criticized Egypt because it allegedly “benefits economically from the current political situation,” as a mediator between Israel and Hamas and “reaps profits from smuggling operations through the tunnels and the Rafah crossing.”
The Israeli think tank Misgav Institute for National Security, staffed by former Israeli military and security officials, published a paper on Oct. 17, 2023, calling on the government to take advantage of the “unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the entire Gaza Strip,” and resettle Palestinians in Cairo with the assistance of the Egyptian government. A leaked document from the Israeli Intelligence Ministry proposed resettling Palestinians from Gaza to the Northern Sinai and constructing barriers and buffer zones to prevent their return.
Any expulsion would likely happen swiftly with Israeli forces, which are already mercilessly herding Palestinians into containment areas in Gaza, carrying out a sustained bombing campaign against the trapped Palestinians while creating porous evacuation portals along the border with Egypt. It would entail a potentially lethal standoff with the Egyptian military, instantly throwing the Egyptian regime of Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who has described any ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in Gaza as a “red line,” into crisis. It would be a short step from there to a regional conflict.
Israel has seized territory in Syria and southern Lebanon, part of its vision of “Greater Israel,” which includes occupying land in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. It covets the maritime gas fields off Gaza’s coast and has floated plans for a new canal to bypass the Suez Canal, to connect Israel’s bankrupt Eilat Port on the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. These projects require emptying Gaza of Palestinians and populating it with Jewish colonists.
The anger on the Arab street - an anger I witnessed over the past few months during visits to Egypt, Jordan, the West Bank and Qatar - will explode in a justifiable fury if mass deportation takes place. These regimes, simply to hold on to power, will be forced to act. Terrorist attacks, whether by organized groups or lone wolves, will proliferate against Israeli and western targets, especially the United States.
The genocide is a recruitment dream for Islamic militants. Washington and Israel must, on some level, understand the cost of this savagery. But it appears as though they accept it, foolishly trying to obliterate those they have cast out of the community of nations, those they refer to as “human animals.”
What do Israel and Washington believe will happen when the Palestinians are expelled from a land they have lived in for centuries? How do they think a people who are desperate, deprived of hope, dignity and a way to make a living, who are being butchered by one of the most technologically advanced armies on the planet, will respond? Do they think creating a Danteesque hell for the Palestinians will blunt terrorism, curb suicide attacks and foster peace? Can they not grasp the rage rippling through the Middle East and how it will implant a hatred towards us that will endure for decades?
The genocide in Gaza is the greatest crime of this century. It will come back to haunt Israel. It will come back to haunt us. It will usher to our doorsteps the evil we have perpetrated on the Palestinians. You reap what you sow. We have sown a minefield of hatred and violence."
"All Palestinian Prisoners To Be
Executed And Shot In The Head"
"The Minister of National Security of Israel, Itamar Ben-Gvir, says he plans to introduce legislation in the Knesset which reads: "All Palestinian prisoners to be executed and shot in the head." – The Minister of National Security of Israel, Itamar Ben-Gvir
Watch this monster say it himself!
June 30,2024:
"Israel is Evil personified. Israel is Evil embodied."
- Scott Ritter
OMG... God damn these psychopathically degenerate genocidal monsters to Hell! And YOU, Americans, paid for it all, every bullet, every bomb, every tank, everything, billions and billions of dollars! All that blood's on YOUR hands too! 60,000 innocent and unarmed men, women and 19,000 CHILDREN slaughtered, with another 10,000 buried under the rubble and unrecovered. And these ZioNazi creatures from Hell call the Palestinians "human animals?!" Eternal shame and disgrace on us all! Stipendium peccati mors est, Israel, and it's coming...
If you lived next to a mosquito infested swamp that transmitted malaria and yellow fever to your population, with one or two people occasionally succumbing to mosquito-borne disease, that would be bad, but you would not all out drain the swamp and hit it with mass dosing of insecticide. But, if 1,195 of your people died of malaria and yellow fever in a single day, the swamp gets drained and every last mosquito gets eliminated.
ReplyDeleteCoyote, you are supporting the scum of the scum and writing a diatribe against the good guys in this conflict. Read the Hamas Charter of 1988 here: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
That expresses Hamas’s true goal, and the Gazan population is Hamas, Hamas operatives, Hamas enablers, Hamas supporters, or Hamas sympathizers. Israel is the canary in the coal mine for these islamists. First they come for the Saturday people and then they will come for the Sunday people. It took the Spanish 700 years to kick the islamists out of Spain and bring themselves back to a Christian country. WWI saw the end of the Ottoman Empire, and that was a good thing for the world.
Lastly Ben Gavir is a right wing crazy. No one will shoot the jailed terrorists, but rather, they will be fed and housed in an Israeli prison under as humane conditions as one can expect for a prison. Contrast that with the starved and beaten hostages that Hamas returned to Israel in the various prisoner exchanges and the hostages that died in Hamas captivity, probably from a combination of starvation, beatings and disease.
So Coyote, re-examine your facts. War is hell, but if you fight you have to go all the way to eliminate the problem for the next 40 years as a minimum. Japan started the show with the US when they bombed Peak Harbor, and they would not unconditionally surrender until we dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The U.S. was right in its response to the Japan and Israel is right with its response to Hamas and Hizb’Allah (Party of God).
Even if you decide not to publish this on your blog, take the time to do the independent research and evaluate the facts to distinguish the truth tellers from the liars as best you can.
Trialwiz, obviously you're part of the mass delusional abomination that truly believes they alone are the Chosen people of God, and I'll be happy to quote the Talmud revealing what you truly are and believe, the truth being so very carefully hidden. We're all "human animals", right? What kind of "God" demands such slaughter, horror and bloodshed? What kind of vile, demented mentality eagerly obeys that mandate? This collective mental illness is impossible to debate with, absolutely convinced and taught from childhood to believe such disgusting ethnocentric filth.The wildly uncontrollable bloodthirsty psychopathy will result eventually in what must be done to a rabidly vicious mad dog who attacks everyone. You know what that is, right? Stipendium peccati mors est, Israel, and it's coming. And as the monster Netanyahu says and wants, there will be a country "from river to the sea", but it will be Palestine, Israel having ceased to exist... So be it!
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