Two members of the Israeli Knesset wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal arguing for Western countries to take in refugees from Gaza as Israeli officials continue to call for Palestinians to be pushed out of the enclave.
The op-ed was written by Danny Danon, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, and Ram Ben-Barak, a member of the opposition party Yesh Atid, which is led by former Prime Minister Yair Lapid.
“One idea is for countries around the world to accept limited numbers of Gazan families who have expressed a desire to relocate,” the lawmakers wrote. They listed examples of conflicts where Europe and the US accepted refugees, including the wars in former Yugoslavia and Syria.
“Looking to these examples, countries around the world should offer a haven for Gaza residents who seek relocation,” they wrote. Danon and Ben-Barak concluded the op-ed by saying the “international community” has a “moral imperative” to accept refugees from Gaza as Israel’s war has killed over 11,000 Palestinians, including over 4,500 children, and has internally displaced about 1.5 million people out of Gaza’s approximately 2.3 million residents.
The op-ed drew praise from Bezalel Smotrich, an extremist settler who leads the Religious Zionist party and is Israel’s finance minister. “I welcome the initiative of members of Knesset Ram Ben-Barak and Danny Danon on the voluntary immigration of Gaza Arabs to the countries of the world. This is the right humanitarian solution for the residents of Gaza and the entire region,” he said, according to The Palestine Chronicle.
Smotrich said that other countries accepting refugees from Gaza is the “only solution that will bring to an end the suffering and pain of Jews and Arabs alike.” He added that the “state of Israel will no longer be able to put up with the existence of an independent entity in Gaza.”
The Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Ministry criticized Smotrich’s call for a “voluntary migration” of Palestinians, calling it “part of Israel’s colonial, racist plan.”
A leaked document from Israel’s Intelligence Ministry revealed that the Netanyahu government is considering a plan to push all the Palestinians in Gaza into Egypt, but Cairo and other Arab nations are strongly opposed to the proposal.
I think the obligation of Western countries, because of many decades of support for Israel’s settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing and apartheid policies, should be to accept and help find homes for Israelis who choose to do the right thing and leave Palestine for the Palestinians.
Serious consideration should be given to Utah.
How’d you come up with Utah? I’d give the Zionists Wyoming, including the Cheney ranch. But Utah? Willard Romney and his fine little Mittens notwithstanding, Utah has elected Mike Lee — who’s no Ron or Rand, or Tom Massie either, but who’s still better than most.
Your elected representatives notwithstanding (I like Sen. Lee, too), I agree, there’s no need to give anyone Utah. Everyone will end up in New York anyway.
Check out the relationship of Mormon theology to Judaism and Zionism.
Right-o. Gotcha. And THANKS!
Just let them go home to America. Easy, since they still have their American passports.
Eastern Europe could probably use the help nowadays.
Agreed; but only those who oppose the Gaza genocide. Coz, when payback arrives, they shouldn’t be caught in it.
“Money, money, money….”
The buck stops here USA, right here.
Time to cutoff exorbitant funding and get all the ducks lined back up, in a row…
‘You’re next’ if Israel does not defeat Hamas, Netanyahu says
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/you-re-next-if-israel-does-not-defeat-hamas-netanyahu-says/ar-AA1jTaMh
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Monday that America and Europe would be the next targets of Hamas, as he made his case for total destruction of the U.S.-designated terrorist organization. “If we don’t win now, then Europe is next, and you’re next,” Netanyahu said in an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity. “We have to win.”
I think we’ve heard that one before, remember Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., etc.
I’ll take my chances.
Stop killing babies. I am far more offended by that than by Netanyahu’s warnings.
When did he say Iran is few months from making the bomb ?
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Lucky for Bibi there is no God other wise he would be sent to hell for all eternity .
Agreed. Either that …or …there is …only …Satan?
Portrait of a certified idiot.
Many times he said that, look it up.
How about….
We give Palestine back to the Palestinians?
We give Wyoming to the Zionists?
We send Yellowcake Dick, and Liz along with him, to refugee tents in Guantanamo?
And once Dick and Liz are gone to heaven(?) and don’t need those refugee tents any more, we can give Guantanamo back to Cuba.
They don’t need Wyoming. They had American homes, and still have American passports, so they can just come back home to here.
Problem is that like the Algerian pieds-noirs who terrorized France and tried to kill its President de Gaulle, they are crazed and terrorists at heart, and we would find it very hard to live with them.
Title of article should be: “Help us with our ethnic cleansing program”
Was there a theme song for Hotel Rwanda? Israel needs it now.
really?
NO more refugees, people need to stay on their lands and rebuild. Millions of refugees due to USA, Israel, GB and European Countries. STOP wars and STOP creating refugees, who live in poor conditions, who have their land stolen, have their dignity destroyed, families torn apart. All the millions of Palestinians should be returned to Palestine and allowed to rebuild without Zionist Oppression.
“Voluntary migration.” Orwell is laughing his ass off. Mass migration and refugees will be with this world until we decide to end wars and atrocities. (Yes, I know I’m leaving out economic migration, but that’s too complicated to fit on the t-shirt.)
It has never been about Hamas. It has always been about the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.
“One idea is for countries around the world to accept limited numbers of Gazan families who have expressed a desire to relocate,” the lawmakers wrote.
Yes, and that number will grow and the desire will increase as soon as the next shipment of arms is delivered.
Well if you where ever in doubt what the Zionist plan was / is now you know , ethnic cleansing for a greater Israel , if any other country did this the Americans would be launching air attacks with a full ground invasion .
Actually the USA has been supporting ethnic cleansing.
Not so much.If people of color are being slaughtered the US would stand aside with hands clapping.
We don’t want them, which I find odd, shouldn’t we help a bud out with their ethnic cleansing? If they can’t displace then, there are other methods, biblical methods to deal with the problem.
1948: When Israel armies invaded five Arab states,, Deir Yassin, Saasaa, Saliha, Lydd/Lod massacres, Arab leaders ordered the native Palestinians to depart. Israel first president Chaim Weizman interpreted it as a “miraculous cleansing of the land,” that left Israel free to tale over the whole land for Israel. (Passionate Attachment, Page 28, #32)
Palestinians should risk their lives and stay in their homes.
….”Arab leaders ordered the native Palestinians to depart.”….
This is largely a myth or propaganda.
This open drive for ethnic cleansing makes clear that the world cannot live with a Jewish State. The problems are baked in to the very idea. The world cannot live with this ongoing, constant evil of Israel.
That idea was an over reaction arising out of horror at the Holocaust. Emotion led to poor decisions.
It was wrong then and it is wrong now. That is not a sudden realization, since Sec of State George Marshall saw it all at the time and opposed doing this, something Truman did out of domestic electoral politics despite the unwisdom.
The Palestinians already have a home – it is called Palestine. Why should the world be inconvenience and the Palestinians uprooted from their land and home for the sake of some Israeli Zionists Nazis maniacs?This is total bullshit! Here is a better idea- let’s get rid of Israel and go back to 1947.