Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has again called for the expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and for the return of Israeli settlements to the enclave.
“What needs to be done in the Gaza Strip is to encourage emigration,” Smotrich, leader of the extremist Religious Zionism party, told Israel’s Army Radio.
“If there are 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs in Gaza and not 2 million Arabs, the entire discussion on the day after will be totally different. They want to leave. They have been living in a ghetto for 75 years and are in need,” he added.
Smotrich previously expressed support for the idea of “voluntary resettlement” of Palestinians from Gaza to other countries around the world. Other Israeli officials have made it no secret that they hope to ethnically cleanse Gaza, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said last week that he was looking for nations to “absorb” Palestinians.
Smotrich also holds a minister position in the Defense Ministry that gives him the power to expand settlements in the West Bank, and he is a settler himself. He told Army Radio that he doesn’t “think there’s anyone in Israel who doesn’t want to see Jewish settlements everywhere.”
In an interview with Israel’s Channel 12, Smotrich spoke more explicitly about his desire to see Israeli settlements in Gaza and envisioned an Israeli military occupation.
“We will be in security control, and we will need there to be civil [control],” Smotrich said. “I’m for completely changing the reality in Gaza, having a conversation about settlements in the Gaza Strip… We’ll need to rule there for a long time… If we want to be there militarily, we need to be there in a civilian fashion.”
Expulsion of the Palestinians may be a war crime…..
Maybe a war crime ????? Is a WAR CRIME, It is also currently no different than what happened in the Warsaw Ghettos during WWII, and the Palestinian actions arguably no different from the uprisings in the said ghettos against the Germans. Israel has collectively punished Gazan Palestinians for decades. That punishment has benefitted Hamas, which is an entity brought into being by no lessor than Mossad itself when Mossad funded Hamas to try to bring down the PLO. Hamas profits from Israel’s refusal to allow goods into Gaza.
Nice of them to provide this further evidence of genocidal intent to partner to genocidal actions!
Yes, we know it is a replay of the Armenian Genocide, and this guy like Netanyahu is a monster of rare proportion: Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin, like that.
Your three exempla were in a life-death struggle with a vastly superior foe. Netanyahu is slaughtering helpless people in a cage.
Israel is so nice. We don’t kill all the Palestinians. We bomb the $hit out of them to “encourage emigration.”
“We bomb the $hit out of them to ‘encourage voluntary emigration.'” fixed, no charge.
LOL. Thank you for fixing my error.
More evidence for the genocide complaint filed by South Africa with the ICJ (the “World Court”).
https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192
If, IF, Israel efforts to expel the people of Gaza, from their homeland, it would be truly a sin…
How about expulsion of Israelis from the occupied lands…!
Right after you return your house to the Indians.
Maybe, or maybe not. The genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Indians of the Americas took place during a time when settler colonialism was considered, by the European invaders and all their neighbors and coreligionists to be right and proper behavior. And there was no one and no mechanism that could stop the process.
The invasion and ethnic cleansing of Palestine by the European Zionists began at the very moment when the world’s view of colonialism was undergoing a fundamental change. The ongoing ethnic cleansing and the development of the Israeli apartheid state is taking place in a world where such behavior is increasingly seen as wrong and evil.
The current relentless massacre of innocents, the genocide that is unfolding every day, is happening before the eyes of the world and “the whole world is watching.” Unfortunately for the Zionist perpetrators of the slaughter, the inescapable interdependence of modern reality means that there are ways that the world at large can stop the horror show, can hold the guilty accountable. Also unfortunate for the killers is the fact that their chief accessory before and to the fact is already losing much of its power and influence, and that loss is accelerated by its complicity in the genocide.
So, maybe and maybe not. You might wanna rein in the arrogance and smug certainty. And whether you want to or not, you sure as shit should.
Historical conquest and occupation are a historical fact, subjective rationalizations are bias.
You maybe slightly confused about the meaning of the word ‘subjective’. What Dissident51 wrote is a description of history. A history about when sadly there wasn’t yet a UN or a Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Which of course doesn’t mean that the crime of genocide on the American Indians in any way justifiable, in any way less than the Jewish Holocaust is justifiable. That admittedly is a moral statement, which is something quite different from a subjective statement. It is not a matter of tastes, which is why it is a Universal Law and you would probably have a hard time finding a person arguing even retroactively for the justification of the Nazi goal of exterminating the Jews prior to this Law existing. And if you find such a person, please feel free to keep me in the dark about it. I’d hate to lose my breakfast over such a find.
Dissident51 is subjectively applying his condemnation against those he feels deserve it v. those he feels do not.
My point is conquest and occupation are morally wrong and cannot be condoned in some cases v. another.
I’m part Comanche… I’d like to have your house too…
Then you stole it from the Apache.
Che Guvera’s daughter has some sound advice for Palestinians =
Israeli Finance Minister Calls for Expulsion of Israelis from Palestine