Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday insisted Israel doesn’t plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza or permanently occupy the territory, a shift in rhetoric that comes a day before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds its first hearing on South Africa’s genocide case against Israel.
“I want to make a few points absolutely clear: Israel has no intention of permanently occupying Gaza or displacing its civilian population,” Netanyahu said in a video posted to social media where he was speaking in English, making clear the message is for a global audience.
Netanyahu’s message is also likely an effort to placate the Biden administration, which has been critical of Israeli ministers who are explicitly calling for the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza and the establishment of Jewish settlements in the Strip.
“Our goal is to rid Gaza of Hamas terrorists and free our hostages. Once this is achieved, Gaza can be demilitarized and deradicalized, thereby creating a possibility for a better future for Israel and Palestinians alike,” Netanyahu said.
But Netanyahu himself has previously said that he favors the idea of pushing Palestinians out of Gaza. “The prime minister told me two weeks ago in this room that it’s a good idea,” Israeli MK Danny Danon, a member of Netanyahu’s Likud Party, told The Times of Israel.
“We had a faction meeting a few weeks ago when I asked him about voluntary relocation and he said it’s a good idea and not easy to find countries that would accept Gazans,” Danon added. At the Likud meeting, Netanyahu said he was looking for other countries to “absorb” Palestinians, and Israeli media reports have said the idea is becoming official Israeli government policy.
Danon said Netanyahu has taken the idea off the table for now in the face of US pressure. “In the last few days, because of the pressure coming from a few countries, he stated that it’s not the position of the government and Israel is not promoting it. [US Secretary of State Antony] Blinken said he got assurances,” he said.
Danon and many other Israeli lawmakers and officials are still pushing for the plan to expel Palestinians. Israeli officials have framed the idea as “voluntary migration,” but Israel’s brutal campaign is making Gaza uninhabitable and is killing scores of Palestinians. So far, over 23,000 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and many more could die due to starvation and disease caused by the Israeli siege.
South Africa’s 84-page application to the ICJ cites the mass slaughter of Palestinians and the genocidal rhetoric from Israeli officials to make the case that Israel has the intent and is taking the actions to carry out a genocide against Gaza’s Palestinian population. The US, which has provided unconditional military and political support for the slaughter, has slammed South Africa’s case, calling it “meritless.”
This story reads as if Israel’s attorneys were shocked by the evidence, and needed to make new evidence to contradict it.
Anybody believe him? Not me. He has always been known to lie about everything, and this time his motive is transparent.
“motive is transparent.”
as transparent as the US hand in it
I believe him… Like I believe Kaa, the Snake in the Jungle Book: “Trust in me… Trust in me. Just in me. Shut your eyes and trust in me (spoken) Hold still, please (sung) You can sleep. Safe and sound. Knowing I am around.”
I dunno…PM Netanyahu really seems like he’s trying to walk back a lot of statements because of this ICJ filing. I think the ASI’s legal team knows they’re “drawing dead” and are trying to make it seem like officials didn’t actually say what they definitely actually said.
Next I’d expect that the most genocidal of the government officials will find themselves isolated, out in the cold, and thrown under a huge bus.
Horse pucky. His closest political allies and officials have been talking deportation and “annihilation” of Gazans. Seems that Bibi and his pal Biden are taken aback over the large number of protests and world condemnation of the ethnic cleansing. This is just PR and pablum for the masses.
Too bad, there are all the videos he can’t make go away.
Bibi claims no intention of displacing Gaza`s Palestinians ? , well he won`t have to because there will be none left after the JENOCIDE is completed .
Sounds like the Biden gang is getting scared. They are complicit, the same goes for Germany.
He Has No Intention of Displacing Gaza’s Palestinians
Of course not, they’ll be buried at the same spot where they were shot dead or died from starvation.
Oh no, Psycho-killer Bibi has no intention of burying them. That would be too respectfull. He’ll plow them under with bulldozers.
Dead or alive.
No, he’d rather kill all of them.
100%
Voluntary resettlement back to Jaffa, Haifia, Deir Yassin, Bersheeba, and a hundred other similar places. There is even a UN Resolution for that UNR 194.
On some bikes (BMX’s in particular), back-pedalling his how you engage the brakes. Other bike types, back-pedalling just makes this clicking, ratcheting sound that does nothing.
I think PM Netanyahu is doing the latter with his hasty back-pedalling.
And on fixie bikes, back-pedaling is how you go backward.
Even if he could, there is nothing but scorched earth he left behind.
What he does not kill
he maims
What he fills
is coffins
as far as the eye can see
bombed out gray holes
dusty rubble
twisted steel
say hello to bibi
butcher of gaza
expeller of nonjew
ask his dad
bout chosen
to a name
5000 years old
wipe the slate clean
what ever you do
is justified
no matter how evil… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2d2d31dff5db2a1db60a0970c7859220ccd4fbfecd43e92da4c30f83da73e61e.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d6f9671da702f7282af0fbd0f5f1ff8ae64143b5c18f06a461f7dda9ee07d7d6.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/afd973dace16159231d436bc5c0abfc2854744682b4ef7f47c685e86851d415b.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/94499003aae5f1abf8ff0d12102949cfe01ccddc9522c119637aff83c9e899ca.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f469c3990798dd981ba8308486801c4866de306cfa34fea7445599f91988558f.jpg
Saddam Hussein was called “The Butcher of Baghdad”, Bibi is “The Butcher of The Middle East”.
Oh, my bad. It just seemed exactly like you were genociding the Palestinians. Well, now that you cleared it up, carry on. Don’t let me hold you up any further from genociding and ethnic cleansing the Palestinians. You are a great example of a …demonic, genocidal, etc… Oh, sorry again. I’m not giving you the benefit. To be fair, you’re more Satanic than just demonic.
Netanyahu: I was just kidding! Jeez, you Palestinians don’t have a sense of humor and can’t take a joke!
All American elected and appointed officials must be held accountable for their actions, supporting and funding Israeli war crimes.
The world knows about it, they were telling the world. We all know Israelis are waging war against unarmed people, some 70% are women and children.
IDF soldiers are brutal, criminal thugs and must be held accountable for their war crimes.
The IDF have always been nothing but a bunch of thugs in uniform. Point and shoot along with an occasional shoot, then point.
Watched a video of three of them cheering on a fourth who was a virgin. The fourth was shooting at Palestinians not visible in the video, and finally hit some unfortunate soul. The shooter began jumping up and down as his fellow “soldiers” clapped him on the back over his first “kill”. QED.
Netanyahu should run for US president. He’d fit right in here. Joe could play his true role as Bibi’s poodle.
Netanyahu Claims He Has No Intention of Displacing Gaza’s Palestinians
he said with his fingers crossed behind his back
what
edit) = why would you expel/displace the bastards when you could simply burn them.
Nissim Vaturi, a member of the Likud party, said IDF soldiers should not have to worry about being ‘humane’
what
i tell myself that i am “anti-war” but in reality i harbor hatred in my heart.
said hatred is not directed towards different skin colors nor religions nor anything that one could press his finger on. i just wake up every morning ready to burn the entire world to the ground.
but my freakin karate wife keeps telling me to “keep it in your pants!”
oh shit.
what
Well, it appears she’s a tad confused, the injunction is “Make love, not War.”
!!!
dude, my wife is a karate fighter and if i fail to make the dinner then i will be the sorry. oh shit here she comes! – see yalls later!
what
LOL. Is that why you’re threatening us with that middle finger? …wut
IDF Soldiers are thugs, informed people know it.
He was trying to wink. But Demons don’t seem able to wink or blink, their empty cold and dark eyes bulging, hungry for Palestinian blood.
I think the too tight facelifts contribute to that lack of facial movement: see Biden and Pelosi.
Both sides of this conflict piss me off. The Israelis are committing crimes, but there’s a lot of blame to go around for what’s happening to the Palestinians trapped in Gaza.
Suppose an arsonist torches a building and a crowd gathers outside. This crowd, while loudly condemning the arsonist’s actions, paradoxically barricades the exits and shoots at anyone attempting to escape from the building. When the trapped individuals inevitably perish in the fire, this same crowd exhibits a display of moral outrage against the arsonist and feigns sorrow for the victims. That crowd of hypocrites, that’s the Arabs.
Screeching about “genocide” while you do everything in your power to stop refugees from escaping from the very war zone where you say the genocide is happening is the most shameless display of hypocrisy I’ve ever seen.
Part of their evidence is the Israeli head of state himself: “‘It is an entire nation out there that is responsible,’ Herzog said at a press conference on Friday. ‘It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true.'”
And yet Biden arms Israel with more missiles nearly every day. Reminds me of this:
Bibi says what???? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Old evidence, soldiers smiling
History Discover
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=usI6qmOAdu4
“Netanyahu’s message is…likely an effort to placate the Biden administration which has been critical of Israeli ministers who are explicitly calling for the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza”
white house – ‘but…darling!…surely you see – if you just kept quiet about what yr doing in public, it would be one thing’…
“and don’t forget, Biden, the Zionist president, is running for reelection”
It’s to be expected from such a slippery lying ratbag. Absorbed by other countries my giddy aunt…..absorbed by flames bombs and artillery shells more like it
Right, Israel will just:
1) Blow up every home, hospital, market, school, etc. on the territory;
2) Prevent them from being rebuilt;
3) Not allow adequate food and shelter imports;
4) Blow up stuff and kill people.
And then they plan to watch as the Gaza Palestinians voluntarily choose to leave their homeland to Congo and other hospitable lands …
When the Congo is considered “hospitable”, you know your homeland done gotten effed up.
Same old story, same old song and dance
WATCH: Day 1 of SA v Israel on Genocide at World Court
South Africa on Thursday presented its case against Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and asked the World Court to order Israel to stop its military operation. Watch the replay. Israel responds on Friday.
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/10/watch-day-1-of-sa-v-israel-on-genocide-at-world-court/
Israel was happier when the Apartheid Regime was in power in South Africa. Israel was its only Middle East Ally at that time and helped it build nuclear weapons.