Israel’s plan to create a “buffer zone” inside Gaza along its border with Israel will take 16% of the Strip’s territory, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing an analysis of the operation by Adi Ben Nun, a Hebrew University geography professor.
Israel has begun the process of constructing the zone, which involves demolishing Palestinian homes and agricultural land that are in the way. The buffer will be about 1 kilometer (.6 miles) in width.
Israeli media reported in January that Israel had destroyed 1,100 of the 2,800 buildings in the border areas. In that same month, 21 Israeli soldiers were killed while working to demolish a building after a Hamas rocket detonated explosives IDF soldiers had planted.
The Israeli military insists it needs to create the buffer zone to prevent future October 7-style attacks. But the plan also advances Israel’s seizure of Gaza’s territory, and many ministers in the Israeli government favor re-establishing Jewish settlements in the Strip.
On top of the buffer zone on the border, Israel is also constructing a road that will cut the Gaza Strip in two. Israel claims that it doesn’t seek to occupy Gaza but wants to maintain open-ended security control of the Strip, which is not possible without some form of occupation.
The Biden administration claims it’s opposed to any Israeli plans that will shrink Gaza’s territory. But the US continues to provide Israel with unconditional military aid as it’s enacting a plan to steal 16% of Gaza.
Netanyahu is murdering for land, his slaughtering of human beings is always for land. Israel needs to be stopped and at this point, I don’t care who stops them, but the Zionist are a Cancer in the ME.
All totalitarian sects are essentially evil and based on lies. One which is currently ruling Israel is more successful than others, so it is capable of producing more evil.
Lies are secondary. “Radix malorum est cupiditas,” the blessed bourgeois long-green, is the totalizing heart and soul, of the West, … God help us!
No evil organization can flourish without lies.
I can agree with that. Evil organizations can flourish with in your face truths as to their intentions. Bibi is telling the world what he wants done, basically telling them “just try to stop us”.
The indoctrination of their sect is based on lies.
and Hamas played right into his hand
… and only less dramatically so in US and Europe.
They want to take Sinai, border territories of Lebanon and Jordan as well for the land grab known as a buffer one. They are experts at twisting the language, like their term “Humanitarian islands” that some suspicion to be a sanitized term for concentration camps.
Why the thumps down, 1Guest Vote??? Hmmm? It is the truth. If you are Jewish and are all in on what is happening, you are a very poor, non religious Jew. If you are an ardent Zionist and believe what Netanyahu says is gospel, you are much worse. Years ago, a member of Ehud Barak’s administration called Gaza a concentration camp. (speaking of Ehud, he has said that many of the tunnels under Gaza were constructed by Israel).
November 21, 2023: Al Shifa Tunnel built by Israel: Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak [1999-2001] “For sure, the bunkers were used by Hamas during this war. We helped Gaza build the bunker when we were running the place,” Barak claimed.
Show me where Israel is planning to take Sinai and Jordan.
Read the little book they base their desires on. Get a clue. “Eretz Israel” includes the lands mentioned.
And what book is that? Name it- come on-where?
“Planning to take it” is hard to prove, unless one is a mole in Netanyahu’s cabinet. “Wanting to take it” is easier; since before the 1948 partition, the zionists including Ben Gurion have wanted a “greater Israel”, certainly far “greater” than what the UN considered “fair” in the partition plan – and have been moving, incrementally, to get it. For a description of what “greater Israel” entails, see here:
https://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Famous-Zionist-Quotes/Story695.html
Show me where you have gotten this information.
They’re already building settlements in Gaza. Buffer zone…lol…yeah ok pull the other leg, it’s got bells on.
Settlers have built “symbolic” structures. That “buffer” takes over 16% of the land in Gaza. I would suggest that settlers will move in then expand outward.
Quite the contrary-they will avoid the area after Oct 7.
The Biden Administration says one thing and then does the opposite.
It talks about saving lives, and is complicit in genocide.
16% is small potatos..
If Trump is reelected, the Palestinians will be relocated to Mexico and 100% of Gaza will become a new Trump golf course (Bibi will get a premium member discount)
So don’t vote for delusional Trump or Genocide Joe…!
I plan not to. Remember the “plate of sh*t” comment by Nina Turner. She was spot on.
Nice deflection. I’m already grateful it’s only 16%. /s
Maybe Israel wants Gaza’s Natural Gas and other resources?
Gaza doesn’t have resources.
All natural gas is located at sea and was already grabbed by Israel and Egypt (and Cyprus for some reason).
The sliver of Gaza territorial sea does not have any gas.
They say there are plenty of gas near Gaza coast. That’s why some crafty people in US government decided to steal it. They are pretending they are going to deliver some food for Palestinians from the sea side. So they plan to build a kind of minor port and use it for drilling and stealing Palestinian gas.
No shit,even a dummy like me has figured that out.
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/ethnic-cleansing.shtml
Buffer zone or no buffer zone doesn’t prevent resistance…!
I hope Israel is digging their own grave.
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Israel could just as easily create a buffer zone on THEIR side of the border without robbing the Gazans of their scarce land.
Well they could, but why should they? There would be no need for a buffer zone if Gaza did not attack Israel on Oct 7.
There would not have been a breakout had there not been 75 years of occupation, and the 16 years of the brutal blockade, humuliation, raids, shooting at kids, prevention of food and medicines enterring Gaza, limitations of electricity, potable water, travel,no hope for young men, 70% unemployment, while on the other side of the walls, the barbed wire, Israelis lived wonderful, carefree lives. The “buffer zone”will divide Gaza, with settlers moving in, eventually expanding outward, and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians who will travel North to where their homes used to be. The concentration camp is to be turned into a death camp.
“while on the other side of the walls, the barbed wire, Israelis lived wonderful, carefree lives.”
Much like the “Zone of Interest” story:
I’ll see if I can find the interview with…think it was the ‘peace faction’ son of a famous Israeli general…
…who described going to a wonderful summer camp near Gaza as a kid, and, he said, literally never thinking about the lives of the Gazans on the other side of the not-far-off wall.
“wonderful,carefree lives”-getting missiles fired at them.HAHA
You get what you give. The Israelis are giving 100 to 1 for any harm inflicted on them, and 100 to 0 in the West Bank, which did NOT attack them, is NOT ruled by HAMAS, but is being brutalized by the Israelis just the same. So cry me a river. It’s not as if Israel would leave the Palestinians in peace had Oct 7 not happened. The jewish settlers causing riots at the Al Aqsa Mosque early last year show that clearly..
Because it will make the inmates even more desperate. Ever hear of Attica?
No surprise yr fine w/one more form of collective punishment on the imprisoned, stateless, now-homeless Gazan survivors.
Hamas did that to them.
If you must. Hamas did an attack on Oct 7th. Israel responded with the ongoing genocide. Israel decided what Israel would do. You can’t deflect away from a genocide.
No, the IDF did, The IDF has forced them into a prison camp, for decades, with no law other than what the zionists feel like granting. No people would tolerate that abuse forever.
Which would, ironically, be on land ALREADY taken from the Palestinians, as the territory around Gaza was originally apportioned to the Arabs in the 1947 partition plan. But the Jews seized that in 1948; so now they want a “buffer” out of Arab lands in order to protect the “buffer” they already seized from Arab lands.
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Do you see Gaza in there? Palestine??
Give this guy a moustache and this as a map of europe and you have irony…
Please, please Scotty! Beam me up!!!
A truely great and prescient comment that gave me a laugh between the tears f0r the families being genocided by this Netanyahu Nazi Style MONSTER….
Netanyahu is not going to make me an antisemite, but he has already made me a Jewish skeptic & Zionist hater of their Nazi genocidal proclivities, even worse than their Nazi forebarers who never targeted the childern quite so directly ass this current batch of Zionist genocidal maniacs….!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blame Hamas
For what? Occupying Israel? Oh wait, Israel has occupied Gaza and the West Bank for 75 years. Blame the modern Black and Tan.
The Pig’s turd has chimed in. When in doubt of how to explain one more Israeli atrocity, it’s back to blaming Hamas. But in order to blame Hamas we must first wonder why Hamas ever came to power.
Netanyahu: “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told a meeting of his Likud party in 2019. “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
Bezalel Smotrich, leader of Israel’s Religious Zionist Party and the current finance minister: “The PA is a liability and Hamas is an asset. On the international playing field in this game of delegitimization, think about for a second, the PA is a liability and Hamas is an asset. It’s a terrorist organization. Nobody will recognize it, nobody will give it status at the ICC [International Criminal Court] and nobody will let them push resolutions at the UN [causing us to] need an American veto,” Smotrich said in 2015.
This is the One piece that everyone here should read but alas, too few, too few do…sigh
I’d rather blame “Jake the Flake “and all those who believe it is O.K. to evict, genocide or displace native people from where they have lived for centuries & millennia. So some more up to date speculators can pave it over and charge for parking…!!!!!!
Tell Us bout the Hannibal Directive and how the IDF used it on October 7th, or why the rapes and beheadings were IDF lies in order to smear Hamas…compared to the sick lying sociopaths in the IDF…Hamas is angelic…
Jake should be angry at the IDF for slaughtering 400+ Jews on 7.Oct.
No truer words have ever been spoken…..!!!!!!!!!!!
The IDF is killing far more women and children than Hamas members with the two & five thousand pound bombs that Biden has gifted them to drop on the homes of Palestinian families & apartments. We are watching a Nazi renaissance of genocide!!!!! But this time it’s a Jewish State out to exterminate the young, Palestinian women and children of the holy land.
Notice how since 19 48 the land of the Palestinians shrinks more and more until we have just 2 places left one the one that is know as an Open Air Prison is getting ethnically cleansed of its people whom most are kids and what does the WORDL DO??????????????
So far not much. I hope that changes.
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Another “duh!” moment by the Wall Street Journal.
The goal isn’t to steal another 16% of Palestinian land. It’s to exterminate the Palestinians if they can’t be ethnically cleansed. But no one can say that.
And it’s not only land. As Richard Medhurst has pointed out, it’s for MONEY. Israel wants to be the end point of a new trade and energy transport corridor to the Med. To do that, the Palestinians have got to go.
Israel Destroys Gaza to Control World’s Most Important Shipping Lane
Iran’s Land Corridor should be built sooner than Ben Gurion canal…!
Israel Will Steal 16% of Gaza’s Land By Establishing ‘Buffer Zone’
OMG you couldn’t even make this sh*t up could you?
i just purchased 3 harmonicas keys of A, B and C.
amazon, what!
i am going to play my electric guitar as loudly as my neighbors will tolerate.
what
Who cares what Biden claims the Zionists in Tel Aviv will give him the orders and he will do as told if he lives long enough.
In another news story, apparently, 450 Hollywood stars (?) signed an open letter denouncing Brian Grazer, a Jew, for his statement he made after accepting his Oscar. Reading the letter made me understand how easy it is for Jews to deny the occupation and the genuine grievances of Palestinians, even urge the IDF to continue its murderous siege as the 68% of Jewish citizens in Israel have.
Just as Arabs deny there were ever Jews in the mideast.
“450 Hollywood stars (?) signed an open letter denouncing Brian Grazer, a Jew, for his statement he made after accepting his Oscar.”
1/ ‘Nice career ya’ got here – too bad if anythin’ wuz t’ happen to it.’
2/ Yea – saw that headline – imagine there are plenty of right wing and Zionist Democrat actors in Hollywood – Jewish and non-Jewish.
btw – Overall, my understanding is that a majority of American Jews – though not a large majority – say they want a ceasefire, along w/similar polled antiwar views of Israel’s siege of Gaza.
Which would mean a majority, but not as big a majority as the great majority of Democrat voters with those views. Note here that even a lot of Republicans poll as not supporting the war. (see below link for stats)
3/ So I don’t doubt Hollywood actors are split…but will guess a majority – including Jewish American actors – oppose the US enablement of Israel’s US enabled apartheid, collective punishment, and genocidal murder by weapons, starvation, and exposure.
4/ Meaning – I speculate – that the open letter points at least as much to AIPAC and other political organizations’ organizational power in Hollywood as to any ‘natural’ political reaction to the speech. (Remember how AIPAC enticed AOC to ‘accept their support’?)
(It would be interesting to know how it’s being covered in the LA press, including actor-oriented Hollywood media organizations, outlets.)
5/ See: “Majority of US voters want Gaza cease-fire. Do Jewish, evangelical faithful agree?” (USA Today)
Only the Beginning: Abraham’s biblical promise to the Hebrews that their land, Eretz Israel, stretch from the Nile to the Euphrates. For them, the Golan Heights and the West Bank are not just so many settlements, but part of their divinely fixed patrimony. (A Death in Jerusalem, Kati Maton, P-x)
??????? “Abraham’s biblical promise to the Hebrews that their land, Eretz Israel, stretch from the Nile to the Euphrates.”
There were no Hebrews while Abraham was alive.
hilarious that there are 60 freaking comments. hey will somebody even notice my stupid comment? OMG you couldn’t make this sh*t up could you.
i have one or two friends here, and both of them know that i am making fun of their punk-ass. HA