Israel won’t succeed in its goals to ethnically cleanse Gaza due to the heroic steadfastness of Palestinians, says Mustafa Barghouti, but the price is their blood, unless all people of conscience use all possible channels to force Israel to stop.
By Mustafa Barghouti
After Israel resumed its all-out assault on Gaza, the bombardment by its warplanes, artillery and tanks has engulfed the entirety of the Strip, from Rafah in the south to the uppermost northern border.
The Israeli army are desperately seeking to make up for their failure after 50 days of war, with this new attempt to crush the resistance in northern Gaza and Gaza City to secure control. So far it has failed to achieve this, despite the savagery of its attacks.
It is also, more importantly, attempting to displace the steadfast inhabitants of these areas – who have remained – to southern Gaza by terrorising them through relentless bombing.
”The heroic resilience of the people of Gaza under the barbaric onslaught the world has borne witness to will go down in history; but every decent human being today needs to mobilise all their energy to force Israel to stop its savage aggression and prevent the ethnic cleansing that Netanyahu is planning to carry out.”
Israel has not hidden its intentions – its planes dropped flyers over the residents of Al-Qarara, Khuza’a and Abasan, three towns in Khan Younis province, warning them that it was now a “dangerous area” and instructing them to leave and go south to Rafah on the Egyptian border.
The goal is evidently the displacement of all residents from north to south, and from there, further displacement southwards to Rafah and the Egyptian border. The Israelis clearly hope the ensuing exacerbation in human suffering as millions are crammed into an ever-smaller area, will bring about the kind of pressure needed to break the valiant Palestinian steadfastness, and force Egypt to budge from its staunch refusal to allow the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip to be pushed into its Sinai desert.
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Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom, an outlet which has good relations with Netanyahu, uncovered his real intentions when discussing this displacement plan. It wrote that Netanyahu wanted to “thin” the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip “to a minimum”, by expelling as many Palestinians as possible from it.
The piece presented further expulsion scenarios via the Rafah crossing, such as ejecting the population using ships, which is what happened to Palestinians from Yaffa and Haifa during the Nakba in 1948. However, it then reverted to describing Netanyahu’s plan as “political fantasy”, due to its failure to reckon with the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and their insistence on remaining in their homeland even if the price is death and martyrdom.
Added to this is Egypt’s political line, as well as widespread international opposition, including from many figures within the US administration. The newspaper also wrote that even members of the Israeli war cabinet, like Gantz, Gallant and Eisenkot, consider Netanyahu’s plans to be unrealistic and far-fetched, even if they wish they could be realised.
Some Western media channels which have shown a disgraceful and shameful level of bias towards Israel, have denied that its goal is ethnic cleansing, even though this has already effectively been carried out given 80% of Gaza’s population was forced to leave their homes, and hundreds of thousands, under ferocious bombardment, were forced to move south. Not only this, but those who attempted to return to Gaza City and the north during the temporary ceasefire, were shot at.
These media channels ignore what Netanyahu himself openly declared in the first days of the aggression – that all inhabitants of the Gaza Strip must leave their homes. Moreover, they ignore that Israeli military spokesman Richard Hecht said even more clearly words to the effect that the entire population of the Gaza Strip needed to leave their homes and head to Egypt – a statement which made the headline of Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
But the Palestinians will not leave, because they experienced forcible displacement in 1948, and know deeply the bitterness and humiliation suffered by those forced to become refugees. They are also fully aware that if they depart from Palestine – their homeland – and leave the Gaza Strip, they will never be allowed to return.
The heroic resilience of the people of Gaza under the barbaric onslaught the world has borne witness to will go down in history; but every decent human being today needs to mobilise all their energy to force Israel to stop its savage aggression and prevent the ethnic cleansing that Netanyahu is planning to carry out.
The death toll of the first day that Israel renewed its bombardment on Gaza was 200 – and around 600 were injured. Israel also blocked the entry of all aid into Gaza via the Rafah crossing, which constitutes the collective punishment of 2.3 million people. All of this is taking place in addition to the unbearable pressure on hospitals and health facilities deprived of medicines and medical equipment.
Therefore, we reiterate our demand to the governments of the 57 Arab and Islamic states that met in Riyadh – that they form a humanitarian aid convoy which collectively represents them, as well as call on international humanitarian organisations to take part – to break the blockade being illegally imposed on the Rafah crossing by Israel.
If this happens, will Israel really dare bomb a convoy containing representatives from 57 states, the populations of which number over two billion people – a quarter of the world’s population?
Alongside this, with the renewal of Israel’s onslaught, we renew our legitimate demand from all states which have normalised relations with Israel, to cancel their agreements, cut ties, and expel its ambassadors.
Likewise we demand that all Arabic and Islamic states send a clear message to the US, Britain and every state that supports the continuation of Israel’s assault and refuses to support a complete and permanent ceasefire. This message should state clearly that their interests in the Arab and Islamic states will incur damage if they persist in their stance.
Israel and its occupation will not break the will of the Palestinian people, nor their steadfastness. Nor will it succeed in achieving its goal of displacement and ethnic cleansing. However, the price of this resilience is being paid for in blood – that of Palestinians and their children.
So the question is this – how many more thousands of children must die before the consciences of those who have ignored and failed in their humanitarian, national and religious duty finally wake up?
Mustafa Barghouti is founder and leader of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI) as well as a doctor, activist, writer, and advocate of Palestinian rights. He has been a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council since 2006, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010.
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4 responses to “Ethnic cleansing of Gaza: The unambiguous goal of Israel’s genocidal assault”
It’s all as bad as World War Two. Shameful beyond belief as happening in the full light of the world’s media. How can this onslaught not be universally and loudly condemned.
America vetoed the UN ceasefire, Britain with shocking lack of decency again showed itself as lackey of America and with spurious justification abstained. Any decent person in the role of UN ambassador would resign rather than vote that way and have the effrontery to justify it. Utter shame on you.
And against the backgound of Jerusalem’s verdant hillside of villas and cypress gardens 2 days ago I saw the BBC correspondent harangue Mr Bargouti at length, not allowing him to speak then after his repeated protests, he barely spoke 10 words when she cut him short.
By contrast the spokesmen for Israel are endlessly given platforms. As others have said all that is happening will create new generations of boundless hatred and not just against Israel but against Western Europe.
I was born in 1945. I accept the fact of the scale of the wickedness of the Holocaust but I bear no responsibility, no guilt whatever, nor do most of the inhabitants of Western Europe in 1939-1945, and vastly less the Arab peoples, mostly meaning here the Palestinians. The Holocaust does NOT and never can justify Israel’s barbarous, racist oppression and massacres.
The American state department officials post 1945 were right in opposing the creation of the state of Israel. It should never have happened, What did the Romans say of Carthage ?
CARTAGO EST DELENDA…MUST BE DESTROYED!
They themselves abetted & aided that holocaust in Europe. Now they are conducting the same holocaust in their neighborhood.. Its in their Genes & their DNA structure. Betrayal is embedded and a curse cast in them. Their natural act is to cheat, connive, betray, steal & dominate by any means even if lives are taken, even the lives of small babies.. They are the cause & effect of dooms day. Read the Torah, Talmud, Bible, Quran & these cursed ones are to be the reason of dooms day. They, these cursed ones, never respect God or obeyed His Commands & Edicts, nor God’s Creations.. specially Humans;
A LETTER TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT REGARDING GAZA/WEST BANK CRIMES …
To get to the documents click on the link.
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Mark P. Dillon
Head, Information & Evidence Unit
Office of the Prosecutor
International Criminal Court
The Hague, The Netherlands
“A State which had first to form itself, and which is based on force, must be held together by force.” (G. W. F. Hegel on Ancient Rome, The Philosophy of History, Part III)
December 11, 2023
Dear Mr. Dillon,
Though I understand that you, the prosecutory arm of the International Criminal Court, are not able to prosecute or even investigate Dr. Anthony Fauci and his accomplices for the recent vaccine genocide, nor the many government officials–including the United States president–who planned and paid for the mass murders of September 11, 2001, pinned on Muslims, at least some of whom were trained and assisted by the United States—because the United States, as you wrote in your letter to me of May 31, 2022, is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, which governs the Court and entrusts it “with a very specific and carefully defined jurisdiction and mandate,”—you are reported as stating recently that you may take action against the obscene crimes being perpetrated in Gaza and the West Bank at the hands of the Israeli government. I am therefore sending you documents, linked below, that may shed light on the true nature and design of the state of Israel, and that may, therefore, assist you in your decision. The documents are part of a larger manuscript centered on codes from 1941 and 1997 discovered in 2003 in published works of scholarship, about which I wrote you earlier. Though I am not trained in decryption, the codes and deciphering would seem for the most part intuitive and self-evident.
Cordially,
Gordon Samuels
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sXlTlfE8eJ8cTnBA5dEmXtaYHDNGUZHC/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113761734110420140029&rtpof=true&sd=true
The genocide taking place in Palestine, is a reflection of the genocide on humanity by the UN WHO and WEF with their medical martial law.
The same criminals which brought us global lockdowns and draconian laws which have caused the death and suffering of billions of people worldwide, are continuing to run their shitshow, so, there is not much to be surprised, and very much to be angry.
It is time to demand for justice, and demand the removal from office of all of those politicians and actors, which have taken part on the global genocide of the WEF, Aand which are now with their theatre play, allowing for the unprecedented slaughter and ethnocide of the Palestinian people. (It is the exact same people)
We must unite and demonstrate all our anger to those who are endorsing this genocide, because as we are witnessing, diplomacy and words won’t do.
Here something I just wrote
https://mywisdom.substack.com/p/the-great-cancel