Members of the Israeli government joined thousands of Israelis in a march in southern Israel on Tuesday led by far-right activists calling for the re-establishment of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and the expulsion of Palestinians.
The march commemorated the 76th anniversary of the day Israel celebrates its Independence Day, known as the Nakba, or catastrophe, to the Palestinians as more than 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes to create the modern state of Israel in 1948.
Joining the march in the Israeli city of Sderot were two ministers in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, leader of the Jewish Power party.
“In order to preserve the security achievements that our soldiers lost their lives for, we must resettle Gaza with security forces and settlers that will embrace the land with love,” Karhi said in a speech at the march, according to Haaretz. “This is the only real way to make the Hamas Nazis pay a price and to defend our nation and country.”
Ben Gvir also spoke and said settlements and the expulsion of Palestinians are the “true solution” to the situation in Gaza. “We must return to Gaza now! We are coming home to the Holy Land!” he said. “And second, we must encourage emigration. Encourage the voluntary emigration of the residents of Gaza. It is moral!”
Ben Gvir and other Israeli officials have framed their desire for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza as “voluntary migration,” but the Israeli onslaught is making the Strip uninhabitable and could give the Palestinians no choice but to leave if they have the option.
In October 2023, a document prepared by Israel’s Intelligence Ministry that was leaked to the media said the best post-war scenario for Israel would be the expulsion of all 2.3 million Palestinians living in Gaza. Since then, Israel has killed about 1.5% of the population of Gaza and has destroyed most of the Strip’s infrastructure.
Limor Son Har-Melech, a member of the Israeli Knesset and Ben Gvir’s Jewish Power party, said last month that there are secret plans in the works to build Jewish settlements in Gaza. “You will see practical steps, including plans and work in government offices and security services. There is intensive work behind the scenes on this,” she said.
There is no excuse now, for any pretense. This is ethnic cleansing, quite willing to do genocide to get that result, and anyone pretending otherwise is a willing liar just ignoring what the Israelis themselves say about themselves and their motives.
Our so-called government is a willing accomplice to genocide, no matter how many of Biden’s tools try to make it anything other than what it is.
This government has proved itself unqualified to represent anyone – anywhere.
Personally, though I do not like the thought of Trump in the WH, I like the thought of another four years of the present creature far less.
It’s one thing to be blatantly evil like Shrub, Cheney, or Rump, they were hateful, disgusting beings but there was really no disguising what they were. Then there are the oily slime who claim to be virtuous and humanitarian, like Clinton (both), Obama and Biden, but whose actions reveal the inner monsters they are. I almost prefer the former, at least you know what you’re dealing with.
Trump was just as bad. He almost started wars with Iran, North Korea, liked the idea of staying in Iraq and Afghanistan… etc.
He wanted to go into Venezuela at one point, probably because of Bolton’s urgings. Fortunately someone talked him out of it, probably the Joint Chiefs.
They are evil and depraved. The whole “anti-Semitism” hoax can be tossed in the dustbin along with “Russiagate” and every other hoax the political establishment tries to foist on us.
Are you effing kidding me with this sh-t???!!!
How do Israelis feel about their own expulsion from their own, perceived, lands???! Who the hell died and made you fricking GOD?!
NAZI fricking Germany ring a bloody bell?!!!
Youailed that one to the bloody cross DV. Touché ole!
You nailed that one to the bloody cross.
My correction.
false equivalence
Assigned reading: Look up “Nuremberg Executions” and “Japanese war crimes” in Wikipedia. “Along with war crimes and crimes against humanity (charges 53 to 55), Tojo was among the seven Japanese leaders sentenced to death and executed by hanging in 1948, Shigenori Tōgō received a 20-year sentence, Shimada received a life sentence, and Nagano died of natural causes during the Trial in 1947.”
Only enemies of the US commit war crimes.
There will never be enough rope.
Both sides refuse to acknowledge the other is human,has rights,and is here to stay.
If those things were accepted as fact, the similarities would end there. There is a stark difference when comparing how much one side suffers as compared to the other.
Specious equivalence. The Palestinians have agreed on numerous occasions to live and work with the Israelis, and, in fact, have been since ’49 in Israel proper, even under apartheid status.
Some have,some have not.
When everything else fails bring up the false equivalence.
Wow — I guess you have never read any history of the 75-year brutality Israel has committed against the Palestinians. Attempting to equalize both sides is a rhetorical trick of the ignorant and the devious.
I guess you have never read of the 75 year history of Palestinian terrorism.
I guess you clearly ignore the reality of the situation to follow the false zionist narrative.
What is the Hebrew word for ‘lebensraum’ again?
Greater Israel from the river to thev sea with a nice canal dug.
It is absolutely critical that we don’t mince words and face the reality that what Israel is doing is genocide as defined by international law (Genocide Convention 1948, article II & Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (article 6) :
”’In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
– Killing members of the group;
– Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
– Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
– Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
– Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group”
It’s not even a hard case to prove. Israel is committing genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, with the US as it’s willing accomplice.
Many war criminals in the past have been hung for less than what these psychopaths are doing right now, in Gaza. That’s how serious this is.
The Final Solution, even.
…said the ashkeNAZI.
All of the illegitimate vermin ( Settlers ) have no voice on the world stage, and thankfully Hamas has helped expose what the Zionists are, and has helped destroy them economically! More Hamas!
Ha-hamas is responsible for the death of 35,000 Gazans and the homelessness of two million
seriously, you’re idiot. just trolling with false information
That not going to happen. Israel is not going to put settlements in Gaza. The smart play once the hostages are back is to seal border between Gaza and Israel.
If you burrow deep enough and stick your head inside, you can see China on the other side.
Are you saying that sealing the border is not “the smart play”?
It depends on what you mean by “sealing”. No food and medication in?
“sealing” the border and sabotaging and holding up critical humanitarian aid further helping with ethnic cleansing.
The Israeli government has shown it doesn’t care about the hostages. It wants to eradicate Palestinians and steal the land for settlements.
This is the most grotesque society on the planet. Openly marching for genocide and ethnic cleansing — because they know that the blood-soaked US government has their backs.
Yup. If the Israeli establishment is going to say “none are innocent” when it comes to all Palestinians, that means any Israeli civilian along with government are all legitimate targets.
The brutality of Hamas pales in comparison to the brutality og the Israelis.
Oh,binding families up and burning them does not count.
Israelis are not the victims here. In fact, they’re all enemy combatants on stolen, occupied land. BTW, many if not the majority that died on Oct. 7 were killed by the IDF.
Murder of unarmed civilians,rape,kidnapping are crimes.
no shit sherlock. it is also criminal to murder, starve, kidnap, force relocate, ethnically cleanse, collectively blame, steal land, etc. civilians also. you are basically trying to say some lives (Israelis) are better than others (Gazaians).
Only most Israelis were born in Israel.Many are the children of people evicted from millenia long homes in the Islamic world. It is the Christina world that with its so called love that forced European Jews into Israel.
The premeditated genocide being perpetuated by the illegitimate Zionist regime has no other comparable entity except for the SS, ISIS and Alqueda
The only genocide was perpetrated on Oct 7 by Hamas.
Troll. Israel has been engaged in systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since its founding. Clearly you support this since you believe in collective punishment of innocent civilians. The Hamas attack didn’t happen in a vacuum. The continued human rights abuses, land theft, murders and harassment by settlers backed by IDF naturally will result in push back eventually. What Hamas did Oct. 7 is ironically no different from what the Israeli government has been doing for decades. You need to shut your zionist propaganda trap.
In other words,free speech is only for those who happen to agree with you. HAHAHA
Yes,Israel tricked Hamas into sending its bestial hate gangs,and Hamas tricked Israel into Gaza. Oct 7 was planned for a long time. Zionism means freedom.
Its called making a bad situation worse. Inflammatory .Besides,who would want to live there?
wow, the zionist propaganda trolls here is sickening.