Israeli Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel proposed the “voluntary resettlement” of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to other countries around the world in an op-ed for The Jerusalem Post published Sunday.
Gamliel said one option for Gaza’s future is to “promote the voluntary resettlement of Palestinians in Gaza, for humanitarian reasons, outside of the Strip.” She called for the “international community” to foot the bill for relocating Palestinians instead of funding the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
“Instead of funneling money to rebuild Gaza or to the failed UNRWA, the international community can assist in the costs of resettlement, helping the people of Gaza build new lives in their new host countries,” wrote Gamliel, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party.
Gamliel said she proposed a similar solution earlier in the war and noted it was gaining popularity among Israeli lawmakers. “I am gratified to hear that Members of Knesset from across the political spectrum, including both the coalition and opposition, have joined my Ministry’s initiative and declared their support for it,” she said.
Earlier this month, two members of the Israeli Knesset wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal calling for Western countries to accept Palestinian refugees. The op-ed was coauthored by a member of Likud and a member of Yesh Atid, the main opposition party led by former Prime Minister Yair Lapid. The idea has also gained support from Bezalel Smotrich, an extremist settler who leads the Religious Zionist party and is Israel’s finance minister.
Last month, a leaked document drafted by Gamliel’s Intelligence Ministry proposed pushing all 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza into Egypt, making clear the Netanyahu government is considering the complete ethnic cleansing of the Strip. But Egypt has refused to take in any Palestinian refugees, making Israeli officials seek other alternatives, such as Gazans being absorbed by the West.
It’s called ethnic cleansing.
It is called genocide. It is a long standing well known plan to remove undesirable population. Millions have been removed over decades. Attitude towards Palestinians as human animals is well known, expressed by the highest levels of Israeli officials. Any reason for not calling it genocixe?
Why should the rest of the world pay for Israel to do ethnic cleansing?
Why allow it at all, much less pay for it, participate in it?
This should be enough for a referral to the ICC, if Putin then her.
ICJ in 2004 already opined that Israelis are liable for paying reparations
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-178825/
I think the issue came up after Cast Lead too. Then there was Protective Edge. What happened? Nothing. Just forgotten.
The constellation of forces is rapidly changing
Yes, but I did not mean just who pays. I meant a criminal charge against her for this admission of ethnic cleansing as the goal she serves in government.
Also command Responsiblity charges for war planners etc
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_responsibility
When will the ICC punish Hamas pogrom-when cows lay eggs.
Why are you such a schmutz?
Not a question of “should”; but, it will because the political class is owned by Zionists.
That how Israel always has operated.
Sure they have the whole rest of Israel to live in.
“a leaked document…proposed pushing all 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza into Egypt, making clear the Netanyahu govt is considering the complete ethnic cleansing of the Strip. But Egypt has refused…”
Reminder, as I wrote a few weeks back, Israel first turned to the US as the agent of that plan:
moonofalabama cites evidence to argue that the US initially tried and failed to realize Israel’s displacement plan, basically by trying to persuade Egypt, just as the leaked “initiative” proposes.
“Biden Forced To Call Off His Plans For Ethnic Cleansing Of Gaza”
10/30/23
Do you have a direct link? I can’t find it via title. I’m sure the search engines are throttling it.
sure thing…
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/10/biden-forced-to-call-off-his-plans-for-ethenic-cleansing-of-gaza.html#more
TY.
I discovered MOA last year. The threads are quite interesting, particularly about the goings on in Ukraine, and now in Palestine.
“I discovered MOA last year.”
One man operation, w/an unusual skill set – military background, an extensive and close news reader, trenchant writing style that cuts to the bone of issues – with even overconfident analysis-stabs throwing light on what’s at stake.
In the ‘resettlement’ piece we’re talking about, e.g., MOA actually figured out from reportage that moving Gazans to Israel wasn’t simply ‘what Israel wanted’ – but that the US was the ‘bagman’ of that goal: the active, instrumental force that, for its own foreign policy purposes, attempted to ethnically cleanse Palestinians, but was foiled.
This is crucial, because it properly locates the Israel-Hamas war in a geopolitical frame – exposing how, in any ‘final analysis,’ Israel is the vehicle of US foreign policy goals vs the ‘tail that wags US foreign policy.’
If I were to choose a single website, I’d say everyone on Antiwar should be aware of MOA.
B is very impressive. Many of the barflies are . . . umm . . . not well-grounded in reality, but it’s always worth reading B’s posts.
The Gazas can return to their properties in Jaffa and Deir Yassin as per UNR 181. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2cf3ce75ffa0f1a356aaf6d97628e2ad5106805c4c9485d70b80d7c87dc3a12e.jpg
That ship has sailed as the saying goes.
Not quite – there are plenty of precedents where dispossessed were able to regain their property 50, 60, even 70 years later.
The Arabs turned UN 181, down-made war-they lost-no do overs.By the way-Jaffa is on the coastal plae-so it would still be part of Israel
Look closely at the 181 map – Jaffa is part of the Arab state.
Israelis who acquired property there are in for one heck of a surprise in the future.
Thanks for playing 🙂
BTW – if you reject 181, then you also reject the legitimacy of the Jewish State. Might want to reconsider your position on 181
IF this insane and cruel plan goes through, then rather than “the world” paying for anything, Israel needs to pay reparations. To help that along, every nickel of US aid to Israel should be diverted to assist the Palestinians in perpetuity; Israel should be sanctioned severely until they cough up the money. All Israeli assets in foreign banks should be seized and turned over to the Gazans. Israel should be unable to receive any loans or foreign financing until their debt is paid; no foreign transfers of funds into Israeli banks should be permitted.
“IF this insane and cruel plan goes through, then rather than “the world” paying for anything, Israel needs to pay reparations.”
It gets more insane – can’t find episode, but Krystal Ball on a recent “Breaking Points” described an Israeli proposal to relocate Gazans to a constructed island in the Mediterranean.
Not realistic (duh) – but revealing of the magical thinking unleashed when just, realistic solutions are wholly rejected.
Hamas needs to pay reparations for its slaughtered civilian victims.
How about for the ones actually killed by the Israelis?
Our friend Jake still hasn’t grasped that the IDF slaughtered those Israelis on 7.Oct
How about all the many thousands more killed by Israel since 1948?
It will never happen, the Palestinians have the right to stay on their own lands and the USA, Europe, Britain, need to stop sponsoring their occupation, their lack of freedom, their genocide. Stop supporting the Terrorist State of Israel, let the real Israelis and Palestinians live side by side, minus Zionist.
“Instead of funneling money to rebuild Gaza or to the failed UNRWA, the international community can assist in the costs of resettlement, helping the people of Gaza build new lives in their new host countries,” wrote Gamliel, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party.
Now isn’t she just one caring bitch? And lo and behold, the bitch has likeminded assholes who agree with her.
“I am gratified to hear that Members of Knesset from across the political spectrum, including both the coalition and opposition, have joined my Ministry’s initiative and declared their support for it,” she said.
And I bet they’re all for the international community footing the bill. These people have no shame.
“Build new lives” in tents in the Sinai. What country is going to accept more than 2 million refugees????? The Plan for the Zionists is for the Palestinians to die in great numbers.
“What country is going to accept more than 2 million refugees”? Do you mean other than the US?
It’s time for Israel to be burned to the ground. Drive the Zionists out. Correct the mistake the world and the UN made in 1947-48 by partitioning Palestine and recognizing the illegal Zionist state.
Who are e you to make decisions over the lived of others?
Someone smarter than you, evidently.
I can make those decisions about the Germans of WW2, and I can “make decisions” about Israel today.
And how is that going to happen? It is not.
Well yeah, as things stand it is not.
We still can propose justice, so we have a fixed point from which to evaluate the monumental injustice of Israeli behavior.
Ethnic cleansing, while confiscating Gaza’s natural gas reserves off its coast, was the Netanyahu’s plan from day one.
I still think my proposal is better: The peace-loving people of the world can contribute to a fund to assist Israelis in relocating to Utah. Or Argentina.
Or Antarctica.
As long as the penguins approve and welcome them. There are about twelve million penguins in Antarctica and, say, five and a quarter million Jewish citizens of Israel. It would be important to establish one-resident-one-vote democracy and a strong civil rights regime in order to protect the minority population from majoritarian oppression — although I understand that penguins aren’t really much into power trips.
“”….Proposes the ‘Resettlement’ of Palestinians Outside Gaza….””
hey you sumbitches, get ready to be relocated!
wait, what ?
what
listen to this yall bastards =
OMG yalls are all bastards and here is my proof =
what
“For humanitarian reasons.” Or they’ll all get bombed. “For humanitarian reasons.”
There you have it. ETHNIC CLEANSING. He said it. Now, what is the world going to do about it? Nothing.
There is no country that will want them.
Palestine wants them. So let’s do as I suggest and resettle Israelis who don’t want to live in Palestine.
There are quite a few different reasons people say that. I have a hard time thinking of a good one.
Great idea! And let’s fund it with billions we usually give to Israel.
How about resettling Israel….ON THE MOON…
A quote from Chris Hedges I picked up from another website:
“As democracies wither and die, as economic inequality expands, as poverty and desperation mounts, the global ruling class will increasingly do to us – once we become restive and attempt to rebel – what they are doing to the Palestinians.” — Chris Hedges November 17, 2023
What Wolin said, essentially.
Inverted Totalitarianism
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/sheldon-wolin-and-inverted-totalitarianism/
I read it the first time and agree with Chris Hedges. Our ruling class is fully capable of outdoing Israel in violence,killing and prosecution.l
What are they doing to the Palestines? Supporting the elimination of Israel?
The USA will be dragged into a major war in the Middle East just like the frog and the scorpion crossing a river together. Israel always makes war by way of deception. The USA is driven by a Congress controlled by AIPAC and millions of Christian Zionists. Their endgame is the destruction of the USA and Israel in some kind of catastrophic nuclear war. Everyone is playing their parts perfectly. May heaven preserve us all from the wrath of the chosenites.
The one hazy gray spot in this mess is that Biden cannot be trusted by anyone. He might do it, or he might not. He probably does not know, and neither can Israel be so sure if they commit themselves that he will really jump in.
Yes of course a large and powerful part of the US establishment would demand it. However, Biden is President, and he is unreliable on anything. Ask the Chinese, he may say one thing and do the other just three hours later.
Biden is just an organ grinder’s monkey, little tin cup and all. We all know who the organ grinder is.
This is a laughably transparent ploy to deflect all blame from Israel for both ethnic cleaning and genocide charges, and make the other nations of the world complicit in Israel’s crimes. No nation in the the world- even Middle Eastern nations- should agree to this and force Israel to make peace with the Palestinians and hammer out a one- or two-state solution pronto. Failing that, the UN can unilaterally declare a West Bank-Gazan Palestinian state based on the 67 borders and illegal Israeli settlers in Palestine can accept Palestinian citizenship or move next door. It was done for the creation of Israel and it can be done for the creation of Palestine.
“Failing that, the UN can unilaterally declare a West Bank-Gazan Palestinian state based on the 67 borders. . .”
It would be nice if that could happen, but it can’t. Contrary to what appears to be popular belief, The United Nations has no authority to establish nation states or declare boundaries. It can recommend, and encourage, but that’s all.
Israelis have a right to Lebensraum.
The ONLY way thru this is by going FORWARD, not backward. UTILIZE PEACE TO AVERT WAR. You begin displacing millions of Palestinians and the future of the entire Middle East is at risk…
They did begin that way. Now, the problem is that they have kept on that way. We are mid-ethnic cleansing, not before it debating yes or no.
Sounds so very familiar, just like the unholy alliance with the nazis to remove jews from. Germany. During ww2. The only thing that is identical is it’s the zionost, once again, causing a world of hate. But who am I to question God’s chosen people, I just believe in peace through justice and an absence of war. It is bizarre how similar these storylines are.
Israeli Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel statement indicates history repeating itself from 1930s Germany.
Send them to the West Bank, Israel is always looking for more settlers.
They already paid architects and designers to come up with a master plan for Gaza after population is removed. It is really simple. They will take any desirable land, snd the “international community” will resettle population. Problem solved.
Israel’s Intelligence Minister Proposes the ‘Resettlement’ of Israelis Outside Palestine