After 97 days of his genocidal ethnic cleansing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu has only wiped out 1%. It’s actually a tad higher as thousands of innocents lay dead under the rubble of over a hundred thousand buildings destroyed by Israeli and US bombs.
At that rate it will take him 9,700 days to complete the clearing of Gaza for Greater Israel.
What to do?
Netanyahu hatched a plan to speed up Palestinian removal there. Simple: push them into other poor countries seeking financial incentives. An Israeli official told the Times of Israel “The business is very complex. We must promote this channel but be very careful of the reactions in the world and also of the fear that it will be interpreted as a transfer and not a voluntary migration. That’s why we work with close legal advice.”
Close legal advice or not, once Israel, with Uncle Sam’s 2,000 bombs, blew away 85% of Gaza’s housing, charges of genocidal ethnic cleansing began zeroing in on Israel from around the world. United Nations’ high commissioner for human rights, Volker Turk, disturbed at Israel’s proposal, said those 2,000,000 displaced Palestinians “have the right to return to their homes. International law bans the forcible transfer of protected persons within or deportation from occupied territory.”
So far, Egypt, Jordan, Chad, Congo and Rwanda have all given thumbs down to Netanyahu’ ethnic cleansing solution.
Yesterday, facing the opening of International Court of Justice hearings on South Africa’s charge of Israeli genocide, and withering condemnation worldwide to his preposterous position, Netanyahu blinked. He told a worldwide audience “I want to make a few points absolutely clear: Israel has no intention of permanently occupying Gaza or displacing its civilian population.”
Bunk. What’s absolutely clear is Netanyahu has promoted the opposite since October. Israeli Knesset and Likud Party member Danny Danon, advised The Times of Israel recently “The prime minister told me two weeks ago in this room that it’s a good idea.”
A truly good idea is for Netanyahu to end his genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza before the wheels of international justice put him the dock to face the justice he deserves.
Walt Zlotow became involved in antiwar activities upon entering University of Chicago in 1963. He is current president of the West Suburban Peace Coalition based in the Chicago western suburbs. He blogs daily on antiwar and other issues at www.heartlandprogressive.blogspot.com.
The Third Reich wanted to send the Jews to Latin America in the 1930s, asking countries to take them in, but few offered space. “They can go on yachs for all I care,” said Hitler. Some were sent. Others moved to other countries, and were then allowed to keep their money.
They were also looking for ways to send the Jews to European colonies in Africa – kind of like the Zionist Movement was originally looking for land in eastern Africa to establish a Jewish state. (This may come as a surprise today, but they were not focused on Palestine. It was about finding any place where they could build a Jewish nation.)
French Madagascar was a candidate – far bigger than Palestine, by the way. (Interestingly, Churchill, who despised Charles de Gaulle for being insufficiently worshiping of the British Empire, wanted the French general to be made the governor or Madagascar after the war, far away from Europe.)
During the war they asked the British and Americans to take in the Jews, but they refused, despite the many Jewish advisers around Roosevelt, probably because the Jewish question was more useful when they were prisoners.
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. Now with White House backing.
The Nazis also killed Gypsies. Did they ask any countries to take them in?
No matter what they try to call it it’s genocide and ethnic cleansing and there’s nothing voluntary about it even some decided to leave. Stay and be killed .
Didn’t some once say…. Pesky Jews?…
No, no, no, Mr. Netanyahu you broke Palestine/West Bank/Gaza and the peace accords. Why should the rest of the world bail you out of a conundrum you initiated. Apartheid and ethnic cleansing didn’t start after Oct.7th 2023. It’s been going on for decades. Read this https://history.state.gov/milestones/1993-2000/oslo for verification. Particularly the part that states, May 1996 elections. New Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hailed from the Likud Party, which had historically opposed Palestinian statehood and withdrawal from the occupied territories. Netanyahu you and Likud broke it. You fix it!
Netanyahu needs to either do a more effective job killing them (Napalm and Thermobarics would do much better), or plan for a wider war to the North. No nation will voluntarily take Palestinians, nor should they. Someone must be forced to take them.