On Monday, Israeli Knesset members and senior government ministers attended a conference on re-establishing Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip that was held in southern Israel near the Gaza border.
The conference, titled “Preparing to Resettle Gaza,” was organized by the Israeli settler organization Nachala and members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.
At least ten out of the 32 Likud party members in the Israeli Knesset were set to attend the conference, including May Golan, who is in Netanyahu’s government as the minister for Social Equality and the Advancement of the Status of Women.
In a speech at the rally, which drew hundreds of attendees, Golan vowed Palestinians in Gaza would face another “Nakba,” referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs when the modern state of Israel was formed in 1948.
“We will hit them where it hurts – their land,” Golan said, according to Haaretz. “Anyone who uses their plot of land to plan another Holocaust will receive from us, with God’s help, another Nakba that they will tell their children and their grandchildren about for the next 50 years.”
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, leader of the Jewish Power party, also delivered a speech at the conference, and he received a very warm welcome. Haaretz reported that attendees broke out in chants of “Look over here, it’s our next Prime Minister” and “Death penalty for terrorists,” referring to Ben Gvir’s calls to execute Palestinian prisoners to make room in Israeli prisons.
In his speech, Ben Gvir said, “We will encourage the voluntary transfer of all Gazan citizens. We will offer them the opportunity to move to other countries because that land belongs to us.”
Ben Gvir and other proponents of conquering Gaza have framed their idea as “voluntary” for the Palestinians, but the Israeli military campaign has made most of Gaza uninhabitable. Palestinians in northern Gaza are currently facing Israeli evacuation orders to move to the south under the threat of death by military action or starvation.
Other Israeli ministers who attended the conference include Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Yitzhak Wasserlauf, the minister for the development of the Negev and Galilee.
Daniella Weiss, a leader of Nachala, vowed that Jewish settlements would begin popping up in Gaza within a year. “In less than a year, each one of you can call me and ask me if I succeeded in fulfilling my dream,” she told reporters at the conference. “Actually, you don’t even have to call me. You will witness how Jews go to Gaza and Arabs disappear from Gaza.”
Weiss also made it clear that her ambitions for Israeli expansion did not stop in Gaza or the West Bank. “The real borders of greater Israel are between the Euphrates River and the Nile.”
Haaretz recently reported that the Israeli government is not seeking to revive ceasefire talks with Hamas and is now pushing for the gradual annexation of large portions of the Gaza Strip.
Exterminating people you don't want around and stealing their land is not genocide, and any resistance is purely motivated by antisemitic psychopathy. USA chant anyone?
I have family members who have bought into that mindset. It hurts. It also enrages me.
USA USA USA !!!
Bellamy Salutes all around !
Which is great 'cause the gesture works on the topic of Ukraine support AND the topic of ASI genocide support.
Gaza is illegally occupied by Hamas – they have no legal status (that belongs to the Palestinian Authority, which Hamas threw out of Gaza in a violent coup).
So, removing Hamas – a violent terrorist group with no legal status – is a reasonable goal, supported by most people in the Middle East, including Egypt, Jordan, the PA, and others. Notice how no one – not even Iran – is sending troops to Gaza.
Gaza would be a peaceful, prosperous territory now if they just did one little thing – stop trying to murder Israelis. But apparently they can't do that – unlike Jordan and Egypt, which have peaceful relations with Israel. Jordan has a large Palestinian population, by the way. You already knew that, right?
So, you can make meaningless bumper sticker statements – like some Harvard or Columbia professor – but you fail to address the real issues. Israel had no interest in Gaza (despite a Jewish history that dates back to Roman times); they left in 2006; It was illegally occupied by Hamas (the election was voided by the PA); Hamas put the billions of aid they received into one purpose: destroying Israel and murdering Israelis.
So, you think Israel is exterminating Palestinians.
Meanwhile, the Palestinians in Israel (Israeli Arabs) have the longest life expectancy in the Arab world, which is longer than African Americans in your country (78 vs 77 years). Yet, Israel is the problem, and your country? No problem, despite widespread racism and health care inequity. I guess solving problems in your country would be hard work and require some sacrifice, but projecting and pointing fingers at others is easy. Or just lazy.
UN: Israel "Raping" and "Exterminating" Palestinians to Clear Way for Illegal Settlements
The latest UN report on Israeli and American efforts to eliminate the state of Palestine concludes that Israel is enacting official policies of "sexual torture" and "extermination" to facilitate the "expansion of Israel's occupation" and "illegal settlements" both in "the Gaza Strip" and "West Bank."
Regularly using Palestinians as "human shields," the UN notes, Israel is systematically "targeting" both "medical facilities and staff" as part of its deliberate effort to wipe out the infrastructure that is necessary to keep the population of Gaza alive.
Specifically, the UN finds that it is Israeli "policy to" deliberately" "destroy the health-care system of Gaza" in order to "exterminate" large portions of the population.
The "sexual" nature of the campaign is another aspect of "long-standing practice over the course of the 75-year occupation of Gaza and the West Bank" designed to "dehumanize," terrorize, drive away, and eliminate the inhabitants.
Israel's "systematic and institutionalized," "intentional policy" of "sexual violence" constitutes sexual "hate"-crimes and is linked both "directly and causally to statements made by Israeli officials." It is further facilitated by "lack of accountability" both for officials and individual perpetrators.
The UN calls on the Government of Israel to "immediately cease the perpetration of rape and other forms of sexual violence," "immediately cease targeting of medical facilities, staff and vehicles and cease the military use of medical facilities," immediately "end the siege of Gaza," "immediately end the unlawful occupation of Palestinian territory, cease all new settlement plans and activities, including in relation to the Gaza Strip, remove all settlements as rapidly as possible, in compliance with the International Court of Justice advisory opinion of July 2024," and comply with the "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide."
The UN further calls on all member states of the United Nations to "comply with the Genocide Convention" and the "International Court of Justice advisory opinion and international legal obligations not to recognize" Israel's "unlawful occupation" nor to "render aid or assistance in maintaining the occupation."
https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n24/262/79/pdf/n2426279.pdf
The UN report has no evidence to support the claims, other than "reports" from people involved in a war designed to destroy Israel.
And many of those on UN panels are still in a state of war with Israel, including all 21 countries in the Arab League except Egypt and Jordan. Iran, Lebanon, and Yemen are at war with Israel. Iran provides drones to Russia, so they are not an objective party.
So, the UN has large numbers of people who are actively or passively seeking to destroy Israel; yet, you think their reports are credible? Apparently so.
‘The UN report has no evidence to support the claims, other than “reports” from people involved in a war designed to destroy Israel.’
Actually every single thing quoted above is based on the conclusions of the UN commission, not from reports. Anyone can do a keyword search on the doc. Nice try though 😄 👏
So on the one hand you have the UN and every other human rights org that exists, including btselem, and on the other you have people who have been committing sexual hate crimes and stealing the land of people they refer to as animals for 75 years. Fascinating how settler colonial societies are always sexually aroused by people they consider subhuman animals, isn’t it? Though to be fair, looking at most of the guys dancing around above at the settler conference, doesn’t look like they have a lot of other options.
The Palestinians have no place to go. After the 1948 war, the Arab countries refuse to take them in. Meanwhile in the years following that war Jewish people were kicked out of most Arab countries. But they had a place to go, called Israel.
If Israel destroys Iran in a nuclear war, they can deport all the Palestinians to the ruins of Iran. They can use giant quadcopter drones to do the transport.
Wow, a bigger dick than Timmy. Well done.
Touché ole!
Another often repeated but false narrative, Hasbara point, that is brought back whenever Israeli actions are exposed. Palestinians have a place to go to and is Palestine ot Egypt, not Syria, not Saudi Arabia, or any other Arab country. Most Jewish people left due to being fooled by the effective Jewish agency propaganda. Most of Jewish left because they wanted to believing in the rosey promises and intimidation campaign successfully waged by the agency. Most Arab countries at the time were themselves controlled by European colonists and powers. The independent ones were independent in name only.
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Always like your own post, is my motto too!
No John. You are wrong. By late 1940s and early 50s European rule over the Arabs countries was done. And after the 1948 war many Arab countries kicked out the Jews.
No, Timmy, the reality is that Jews in Arab countries and indeed around the world were under tremendous pressure from the Zionists to emigrate to Palestine as it was believed to be crucial to the survival of the new state. Don’t you remember that Zionist that said if he could save half the Jews in World War II and not have a Palestine or lose what they did and have a Palestine, he would choose the latter? Zionist militias conducted terrorist ops to intimidate Jews into leaving. The future “most moral army in the world.”
British-Israeli historian claims in new memoir that Mossad carried out bombings to drive Jews out of Iraq and hasten their transfer to Israel
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/avi-shlaim-proof-israel-zionist-involvement-iraq-jews-attacks
The truth behind Israeli propaganda on the 'expulsion' of Arab Jews
https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/truth-behind-israeli-propaganda-expulsion-arab-jews
You're lying yet again.
The behavior of our closest allies tells you all you need to know about our own character.
What a bunch of murderous bastards.
Start war, lose land, it happens.
That's what I've always said to the Native Americans. Stupid UN notes that the "sexual" nature of Israel's extermination and resettlement campaign is part of its "long-standing practice over the course of the 75-year occupation of Gaza and the West Bank" designed to dehumanize, terrorize, drive away, and eliminate the Palestinian population. Sexual feelings towards people you call animals is always an interesting feature of settler colonial and slave-driving societies, no?
But no wonder Israel has killed about 230 UN staff and 180 journalists, and is seizing UN humanitarian headquarters in Gaza with plans to establish them as sites for illegal settlements. My motto, Israel knows best.
UN calls on the Government of Israel to "immediately cease the perpetration of rape and other forms of sexual violence," "immediately cease targeting of medical facilities, staff and vehicles and cease the military use of medical facilities," immediately "end the siege of Gaza," "immediately end the unlawful occupation of Palestinian territory, cease all new settlement plans and activities, including in relation to the Gaza Strip, remove all settlements as rapidly as possible, in compliance with the International Court of Justice advisory opinion of July 2024," and comply with the "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide."
Nuts to them, eh?
https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n24/262/79/pdf/n2426279.pdf
It does indeed … as do revenge killings and revenge wars and eventual loss of everything in a karmic meltdown. Those things happen too.
“Hit the road Jack (Israel), don’t ya come back no more, no more! Hit the road Jack, don’t ya come back no more!”…
“We will hit them where it hurts – their land,” Golan said, according to Haaretz. “Anyone who uses their plot of land to plan another Holocaust will receive from us, with God’s help, another Nakba that they will tell their children and their grandchildren about for the next 50 years.
Does the "C" word come to mind?
Yes, along with a lot of other words …
What's the C word?
Seriously?
Are yae nae Scottesh ? Aet's our most common noun AND adjeaective !
I wonder if CNN and Fox will be leading with this story … and showing fantastic films of the gathering we see, with grown men dancing and singing about genocide and ethnic cleansing. Should be a ratings grabber, don't you think?
"Plan a holocaust"? What are they talking about?
It has only one name: GENOCIDE.
End genocide, end Israel.
Duh, it was genocide that made Israel necessary.
You're the Clown Prince of Inane Statements.
And your remark is the King of Inane Statements.
Israel is not and was never necessary. The Holocaust does not justify a Jewish state in Palestine, maybe in Germany?
“We will encourage the voluntary transfer of all Gazan citizens. We will offer them the opportunity to move to other countries because that land belongs to us.”
'Ben Gvir and other proponents of conquering Gaza have framed their idea as “voluntary” for the Palestinians, but the Israeli military campaign has made most of Gaza uninhabitable. Palestinians in northern Gaza are currently facing Israeli evacuation orders to move to the south under the threat of death by military action or starvation.'
History has some really sick perverse ironies, does it not?
Dateline 2040
Grandpa what did you do during the 2024 Genocide ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dtoWptrhPOM&t=5s&pp=2AEFkAIB
Replace "Resettle Gaza" with steal Palestinian lands….. AGAIN.
They don’t even try to hide how vile they are anymore. I wonder how well ardent Zionists living in the “diaspora” will be received when Israel carries our its annexation of Gaza then the West Bank based on their “historical homeland” fantasy.
What these settlers and Likud members are saying an "antisemite" couldn't get away with before. One can only infer that they feel comfortable now to come out in the open about it.
Well, the first Hamas attack killed off the Israeli peaceniks ,so the country shifted to a more extreme position.
That’s a fantasy I haven’t heard yet. Must be some good peyote!
You lack information. Not surprising.
Hard to sort through the Israeli propaganda as to what is "knowledge" and what it just plain propaganda. The Hannible Directive at least muddies the issue of who did a lot of the killing of innocents.
The writings about Zionism are public and well-known. Zionists want a homeland, just as all people do, including you. Kurds seek a Kurdistan for their people.
As for the Hannibal Directive, it is not part of Zionism. But if you enemy is ruthless and uses hostages against you (as is clearly the case in Gaza today).
Wars – especially those designed to exterminate you – require tough decisions. Winston Churchill ordered an attack on the French fleet (Battle of Mers-el-Kébir) on July 3, 1940, to keep the fleet out of German hands. 1,297 French sailors were killed. But wars have to be won.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Mers-el-K%C3%A9bir
You clearly wouldn't understand, sitting in the protected comfort you live in; but how many people did the United States kill to obtain your privilege today? Millions of Native Americans; millions of enslaved Africans; thousands of Chinese laborers; hundreds of thousands of civilians in Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki; millions in Korea and Vietnam; and up to a million in the "War on Terror". But that's different, of course, and you can feel morally superior. It's always easier to point at others rather than face your own country's history.
Not defending attacks on innocent people (many were killed by IDF fire, by the way). Your description of a large group of "peaceniks" is in question. Did some research. This was a MUSIC festival, in celebration of the so-called 8th Day of Sukkot. Events like this have a marketing theme. For this one, it was "Friends, Love, and Infinite Freedom". Lofty sounding, but no overt mention of "peace" with anyone outside the circle.
You're such a monumental idiot that only you keep Major Burns off the top spot on the "Dumbs**t Comment Leaderboard".
You are making a good run at becoming the leader.
Oh, so all those IDF soldiers, former and present (as military service is mandatory) who decided it was a good idea to hold a music festival celebrating “peace and love” a few miles from a couple million people you’ve decided to imprison and periodically massacre represent the peaceniks? You are truly disgusting people.
You are not well informed, clearly. Many of those on the border with Gaza hired and helped people in Gaza. They believed that the two people could live peacefully together. Israel allowed aid to flow into Gaza. Hamas decided that war with Israel was preferred to peaceful co-existence. If you can't understand the difference between peace and war, you shouldn't be making comments; you are showing your ignorance and embarrassing yourself.
So, go back to your dorm room, light a bowl, put on your keffiyeh, and tell all your friends how brave you are.
Wars, have consequences.
Or, work with saudi arabia and other oil states to build New Palestine. Talk to all middle eastern countries to find a place big enough that could be developed and serve their needs plus some elbow room, someplace oceanside that could be deeded over that they could call 'home'. Sell the palestinians on the idea that the current status quo is a major bust, which it is, and starting over far and away from the israelis is the best plan for a brighter future with less bullet holes in it. If you can get that done, and land is made available, then have israel get out the Big Checkbook and compensate the palestinians and thus help to sponsor them into new surroundings. Israel wins, palestinians win, new beginnings, no more bandannas and kalashnikovs, no more dead 10year-olds. Pitch the idea to the entire arab world, to the UN, to everybody, and pass the hat.