Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a meeting of his Likud party on Monday that he’s working to bring about the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza and looking for countries willing to “absorb” them, Israel Hayom reported.
“Our problem is countries that are ready to absorb them, and we are working on it,” Netanyahu said. His comments are the latest sign that Israel’s ultimate goal is to cleanse Gaza of its 2.3 million Palestinian residents.
Netanyahu said the world is “already discussing the possibilities of voluntary immigration” and pointed to comments from former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, who is currently running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Haley said last week that Palestinians in Gaza should migrate to “pro-Hamas” countries.
Netanyahu said that a team must be set up to “ensure that those who want to leave Gaza to a third country can do so. It needs to be settled. It has strategic importance for the day after the war.”
Last month, Israeli Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel penned an op-ed for The Jerusalem Post calling for the “voluntary resettlement” of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to other countries around the world. Two members of the Israeli Knesset wrote a similar op-ed for The Wall Street Journal that said Western nations should accept Palestinian refugees.
While Netanyahu and other Israeli officials have framed the plan as “voluntary resettlement,” Israel’s brutal campaign in Gaza is making much of the enclave uninhabitable. About 90% of Gaza’s population has already been internally displaced.
A leaked document drafted by Gamliel’s Intelligence Ministry said pushing all 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza into Egypt was the ideal scenario for the Israeli government. But Egypt has refused to take in any Palestinian refugees, forcing Israeli officials to look elsewhere to facilitate their planned ethnic cleansing.
Not at all like ethnic cleansing.
right? in no way does that walk like a duck
The core problem is that people like Netanyahu think they don’t have to share the planet with anyone else. The only meaningful difference between the Arian super race and the Hebrew super race is in the eye of the beholder.
It’s definitely an element of supremacy. Might even be white supremacy, in the manner of ethnic supremacy, not unlike Nazis, as you said.
More delusional talk by Bibi the Butcher. Given Israel’s trajectory right now, he should be more worried about where Israelis should migrate to.
If I am an Israeli with dual nationality, I would be getting myself & the family the hell out of dodge while it’s still possible.
Or else?
You should really look into the definition of ethnic cleansing if you’re going to claim you’re against it..
I don’t think Scipio is the one who’s unclear on ethnic cleansing.
Actually, I suspect you know very well what the term means. You should be asking yourself what it means about you that you support it.
If Scipio is against ethnic cleansing and in the same sentence calls Israelis to leave “while it’s still possible” than either he’s unclear on the definition of ethnic cleansing or he’s OK with it as long as its directed against people he doesn’t like.
To be clear, people should not be forced to leave their homes against their will. No matter their ethnicity.
I think Scipio was talking about Israel imploding and not about any ethnic cleansing.
Uh-huh. So, does destroying a home count as forcing the residents to leave, in your view? The ones able to leave because they are lucky enough not to be corpses buried in the rubble, that is.
Some Israelis probably don’t want to be part of an ethno-supremacist state helmed by religious fundamentalists. They’re wiping out Palestinians today, tomorrow it might be Israelis who are insufficiently religious.
With US help, he might get away with this.
In the longer term, Israel will pay a huge price for this, likely going out of existence. The people will live, but the state will cease to be tolerated by the world.
It will be like white South Africa or Rhodesia, both btw great friends of Israel because they all thought alike.
Hey, developing & testing nuclear weapons together is like baking cookies together. You can’t HELP but bond & have a rollicking fun time.
No, doubt at the expense of the host country. And “working on it” translates, “bribing the likely polscum”, to wit: Niki Haley. All which with funds got from US.
“…should migrate to “pro-Hamas” countries.”
Riiiiight – the way the USA encouraged its mortal-enemy Al Qaeda to migrate from Afghanistan to “pro-Al-Qaedenese” countries.
That turned out great for Osama Bin Laden.
Likud should re-read UNR 194 (1948) and UNSC 2334 (2016) closely – reparations are due Arabs under International law from Israel.
How much is 70 years of back rent plus interest worth to the dispossed property owners of Jaffa, Deir Yessiin, and Bersheeba ?
You forgot the WB.
ICJ opinion of 2004 covers West Bank reparations specifically
” opinion” not a policy. How much reparation has been paid in almost 10 Years? How many people received a shekel?
True – and all that means is the reparation bill keeps increasing. How much is 70 years of back rent plus interest on a Apartment house in Jaffa ?
Yes-you are right.And reparations should be paid to the descendants of the 750,000 Jews cruelly evicted from their 2500 year long homes in the Arab and Islamic world.Fair is Fair.
Get a UN resolution passed like UNSC 2334 or UNR 194 or even a ICJ opinion like the 2004 ICJ opinion.
Or should the extremist Zionists be held liable for attacking Levantine Jews , that would became internal affair.
It’s nice that dear Nicki is coming out as supportive of ethnic cleansing and genocide …
I wonder if she, born Nimarata Randhawa, would appreciate ethnic cleansing if it was practiced in these united states …or is it only to be applied to the official enemies du jour?
On a side note Nicki has inspired me to register as a Republican. Just so I can vote for whoever has the best shot at beating her in the primary.
All people of colour or of any minority heads up. If it is happening in Israel, be rest assured it is going to happen elsewhere; especially in the U.S.A. ’cause the same folks who run Israel run the U.S.A.. I’d be speaking up right now as we might be next.
Don’t think a genocide can happen in the U.S.A.? Ask an American native.
Look at who and what Genocide Joe is supporting. We do not need another four years of him or anybody like him.
Genocide Joe, is responsible for the massacre of the Ukrainian young men and of Ukrainian old and young men and women, in short the annihilation of the Ukraine and the people. He and his criminal team will do the same to Europeans and NATO partners if they can get away with it.
The same people who control the US and Israel also control the Europeans, how else can one explain Sweden and Finland to join a falling apart NATO, giving up decades and more than a century in case of Sweden neutrality and prosperity. Insanity and stupidity alone can’t explain that. The UK and Germany and EU and NATO have fully 100% idiots running the show. The governments are basket cases, escaped asylum inmates or the lowest corrupt scum bags.
Let us also remember that the Ukraine with full U.S. support was doing an all up ethnic cleaning of the Ukraine’s Russian population before Russia stepped in. Genocide Joe was at the helm.
You’re correct these government leaders all need to be put in jail cells with rubber walls.
Who are the oligarchs who picked these leaders anyway? The same forces control the European leadership. Who are the people who run the show, the people who meet in Davos with the political elite next month? The Koch brothers, Schwab, Gates, Musk and others like them, the upper 0.5%? The European corporate elite must be involved also, how else the silence when Biden blew up the pipelines?
Joe was 2nd in command when that started under Obama.
and Trump simply looked the other way when he took over
anyone who reaches that level of power is all the same
After April 9, 1948 Deir Yassin Massacre, Menachem Begin message to his Irgun Zvai Leumi troops:
“Accept my congratuations on this splendid act of conquest. Convey my regards to all the commanders and soldiers. We shake your hands. We are all proud of the excellent leadership and the fighting spirit in this great attack. We stand to attention in memory of the slain. We lovingly shake the hands of the wounded. Tell the soldiers: you have made history in Israel with your attack and your conquest. Continue thus until victory. As in Deir Yassin, so everywhere, we will attack [today 21 thousand Palestinians dead in Gaza] and smite the enemy. God, God, Thou hast chosen us for conquest.” (The Passionate Attachment, Page 29, #38)
Deir Yassin was bad,bad,bad, as was the massacre of the Jews of Hebron in 1929.Israel’s central government ultimately squashed Begins army-Altalena affair. However,we have to live in the present. Deir Yassin was a pin prick relative to Oct 7.
Deir Yassin wasn’t just one isolated incident. There were many more Deir Yassins and that has never stopped ever since. Deir Yassin was erased from the land and no longer exists but will never be erased from the memory of the people or history.
It is typical of Israeli supporters and apologists to demand that the Palestinian people and the rest of the world to forget the past and move on and “have to live in the present “ but they themselves are stock in the past.
Since the 1990’s he has said he wanted to liquidate or remove all Palestinians.
Israel should be first on the list to accept Gaza refugees.
Then next, the United States. They together bombarded Gaza to smithereens.
The beast in the East provoked this war.
The US has lots of land they could settle with Palestinians, they would be welcome in Montana and Wyoming which need more settlers./s
yes Dick Cheney does have an estate in Wyoming and IMO he is partially to blame for the Palestinian’s plight.
Who are you to speak for the people of those states.Gazans can live in the beast of the east.
Who are you to tell Palestinians what they can do, or the Iranians, Iraqis, Afghans, Libyans, Syrians, Germans and many more. Why don’t Americans just stay home and mind their own business, clean their own house? Biden is an extortionist, he threatens with sanctions and military attacks, he has no diplomatic manners and his people are incompetent zeros like him. Biden is a war criminal and that is true for all elected officials in government. He does not even have a competent press secretary, what a useless government he leads or should lead. I wonder who gives him his orders and talking points.
Wow, you make a convincing case that Biden is Putin’s brother from another mother.
Thomas, how do you read that in what I posted? You lost me, please explain how you arrived at your conclusion.
You wrote:
“Biden is an extortionist, he threatens with sanctions and military attacks, he has no diplomatic manners and his people are incompetent zeros like him.”
Sounds just like Putin.
That is your opinion, not mine. Please don’t put words in my mouth. But I do appreciate your answer.
I didn’t put any words in your mouth.
I just noticed that your description of Biden also closely resembled any fact-based description of Putin.
And you are wrong, Putin is a statesman, I know it pains you to admit it, our president is a demented old man. I could say more, like we don’t know who really runs the shop and makes decisions.
I don’t think you know who is in charge. I do not know who is really in charge, but I am sure it is not Biden.
Credit were credit is due. When was the last time Biden gave a press conference? Putin sat through 4 hours Q&A without notes. Biden needs notes to say have a nice day.
I agree completely that Putin is a statesman. He’s probably not as demented as his fellow statesman, Biden.
What you don’t understand is that the term “statesman” should be considered an insult. It just refers to a murderous gang shot-caller.
I do agree with you, the term “statesman” has been degenerated. The loss of honor is true for congress, men and women. But there are always exceptions to the rule, I try to be fair. To be honest, I can’t think of one exception. The nations elite leadership is morally bankrupt and we, the people pay for it. The Biden appointees are the pits.
Let the people who urged Hamas to commit their racist,Jew hating ,sexist,rapist ,sadist atrocities take Hamas back in.No one else wants them.
You whine when Israelis get punched in the nose but you can’t understand that Hamas retaliates against the wrongs committed by Israelis against them. No one needs to urge them to punch back, Israelis abused them from the day they were born, they witnessed the humiliation their parents had to suffer and their rage grew on a daily basis. Their retaliation is understandable, they did nothing to the Israelis, their sin is the fact that they were born in Palestine, the home of their parents.
Yeah, Israel has been propping up, funding and arming Hamas so… Palestinians get to stay in Palestine!
Who urged Hamas to hate Jews? Common sense, provided you are informed, would tell you Hamas retaliated and no one had to urge them, their life experience in the Gaza concentration camp was all the motivation they needed.
Provided you are informed, you know that Hamas’s 1988 charter specifically cited Quranic justifications for killing Jews.
Provided you are informed, you know that Hamas’s 1988 charter specifically cited Quranic justifications for killing Jews.
Hamas was elected in 2006, the Israelis are killing Palestinians in the thousands more than half of them children under 7 years of age, women and children make up almost 70% of the victims, thousands are still buried under the rubble. They are bombing unarmed civilians, they are brutal and cowardly baby killers. Not one pilot dropping 2000 pound bombs on unarmed civilians without even bomb shelters, bombed hospitals, schools, churches, ambulances, and they killed health care workers, journalists, and UN personnel. All of them executed illegal orders, making them war criminals. What Hamas people said when they were not in office some 40 years ago is nothing but BULL SH*T. There grandchildren now retaliate for a century, 5 generations of brutal suffering. WHAT THE ISRAELIS ARE DOING IS WHAT COUNTS, THEY ARE EVIL, SADISTIC PEOPLE.
There are 9.2 million Israelis. Are you calling them all evil, sadistic people? If so, I’ll warn you concerning the site’s guideline against slurs on the basis of national origin.
I speak of the nations leadership only. Not all Palestinians are guilty as the Israeli Zionist leadership says they are, the same is true for Israelis, not all are evil, public opinion has been manipulated for decades, as is true for most of western democracies. In MHO we have lost trust in our democratic governments and for good reason.
“I speak of the nations leadership only.”
My default assumption (based on your prior posts over time) was that that was what you meant, but I wanted to check.
Thomas, facts are not slurs.
I refuse to fool myself and deny what I know is the truth.
The Israelis are starving and bombing the unarmed Palestinian people, some 70% women and children. That is evil and sadistic. That is not a slur, that is a fact. The pilots are Israelis, so are the IDF soldiers.
To call the Hitler Germans Nazis, is that a slur?
Gazans will live in Gaza.
Fair point Lysis, very fair… But, taking all things, into account… The question, then becomes, why not make such a proposal to the Israelis as well?!… What we really are talking about, unequivocally, is EVERYONES RIGHT to EXIST and where?….
You are so right, say Wyoming for the Palestinian people and Montana the larger population of Israelis and Palestine could be a huge museum with huge reeducation programs, teaching what NOT to do. We could locate the UN and the ICC in Palestine and the death row for convicted war criminals.
Bibi can absorb rat poison AFAIC.
Someone said the quiet part out loud again
Nastyahu Ultimate Nazi?: Expel and or Kill Undesirables and Keep their Wealth ($500 Billion of Gas and Oil)
How about looking for countries to absorb Israelis from the occupied lands…! Then the world would be at peace…!
The world wasn’t at peace before 1948, and it won’t be at peace after Israel no longer exists (unless Israel by some chance takes humankind with it).
Maybe Israel should Absorb’ Palestinians from Gaza?