Netanyahu’s tactics aim to force Palestinians out of Gaza, ultimately fulfilling the Zionist dream. This cruel strategy goes against human rights and exposes the barbarity of the United States and Israel.
By Mike Whitney
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It must be clear that there is no room in the country for both peoples…. If the Arabs leave it, the country will become wide and spacious for us…. The only solution is a Land of Israel…without Arabs. There is no room here for compromises… Yosef Weitz (1890-1972) former director of the Jewish National Fund’s Land Settlement Department
The IDF’s recent airstrikes on civilian areas in Rafah mark the beginning of the final phase of Israel’s massive ethnic cleansing project. On Monday, Israel bombed a number of locations where Palestinian refugees were huddled in tents after fleeing Israel’s onslaught in the North. Videos of the destruction appeared on a number of Twitter-sites which showed a deeply-cratered wasteland in the middle of makeshift encampments. Not surprisingly, women and children made up the bulk of the casualties with no evidence of Hamas to be found anywhere. According to a witness at the site, body parts and carnage were strewn across the landscape. This is from an article at the World Socialist Web Site:
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Israel launched a massive aerial bombardment of Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, on Sunday night into Monday morning, killing over 100 people. As the sun came up, the world was horrified by images of the mangled bodies of children, in a chilling demonstration of what is to come in the weeks ahead.
Over the weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to carry out a full-scale military onslaught against the besieged city, declaring, “Our goal … is total victory.” For the Israeli regime, “total victory” means killing as many Palestinians as possible and driving the rest from their homes. With a green light from Biden, Israel commencing Rafah massacre, World Socialist Web Site
Israeli spokesmen and members of the western media provided the perfunctory justification for Monday’s attacks by reiterating the fiction that Israel is trying to eradicate Hamas. What is obscured by this obvious deception is the fact that the basic plan for expelling the Arab population from their native land dates back to the origins of the Jewish state. Indeed, the founder of the modern Zionist movement, Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), wrote the following:
“We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country… expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.”
Shockingly, Herzl wrote those words in 1895, 50 years before Israel declared its statehood. So, the problem was fully understood even back then. In order to establish a Jewish homeland, Jews would have to maintain a sizable majority, which means Palestinians would have to be evicted. That is the niggling issue that has bedeviled Israeli leaders from 1948-on; how to ‘disappear’ the native population. Here’s a blurb from Israel’s first prime minister David Ben-Gurion who said:
“You are no doubt aware of the [Jewish National Fund’s] activity in this respect. Now a transfer of a completely different scope will have to be carried out. In many parts of the country new settlement will not be possible without transferring the Arab fellahin.” He concluded: “Jewish power [in Palestine], which grows steadily, will also increase our possibilities to carry out this transfer on a large scale.” (1948)
This same line of reasoning has persisted through the decades although today’s Zionists tend to express themselves more brashly and with less restraint. Take, for example, popular conservative pundit Ben Shapiro who presented his views in an article titled “Transfer is Not a Dirty Word”. Here’s what he said:
If you believe that the Jewish state has a right to exist, then you must allow Israel to transfer the Palestinians and the Israeli-Arabs from Judea, Samaria, Gaza and Israel proper. It’s an ugly solution, but it is the only solution. And it is far less ugly than the prospect of bloody conflict ad infinitum….
The Jews don’t realize that expelling a hostile population is a commonly used and generally effective way of preventing violent entanglements. There are no gas chambers here. It’s not genocide; it’s transfer….
It’s time to stop being squeamish. Jews are not Nazis. Transfer is not genocide. And anything else isn’t a solution. Transfer is Not a Dirty Word, Narkive
“Squeamish”? Shapiro thinks that anyone who recognizes the appalling moral horror of driving people off their land and forcing them into refugee camps is squeamish?
This is the essence of political Zionism and it dates back to the very beginning of the Jewish state. So, when critics claim that Netanyahu has assembled the “most right-wing government in Israel’s history”, don’t believe them. Netanyahu is no better or worse than his predecessors. The only Prime Minister who veered even slightly from this ‘iron law’ of Zionism, was Yitzhak Rabin who was (predictably) assassinated by an opponent of Oslo. What does that tell you?
It tells you there was never going to be a “two-state” solution; it was a charade from the get-go. And (as Netanyahu intimated recently) Israeli leaders merely played along with the hoax in order to buy-time to prepare for the solution that is being imposed today.
Have you ever wondered why so many Israelis support Netanyahu’s murderous rampage in Gaza?
(Hint) It’s not because Israeli Jews are homicidal maniacs. No. It’s because they know what he is doing. They’re not taken-in by the “Hamas” diversion, that is merely propaganda pablum for the West. They know that Netanyahu is implementing a plan to seize all the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. And, in doing so, he is achieving the territorial ambitions of his Zionist ancestors. So, even though the majority of Israelis despise Netanyahu and think he should be prosecuted for corruption, they are willing to look the other way while he does their bidding.
What onlookers need to realize is that the current strategy is not new at all, in fact, it has a 75 year-long pedigree that aligns with the demographic objectives of the Zionist leadership.
None of this of course has anything to do with Hamas which is merely the pretext for the eradication of the indigenous people. What we are seeing is the actualization of the Zionist dream, the modern version of Plan Dalet, the original roadmap for ethnic cleaning that was drawn up in 1948.
So, what is Plan Dalet?
Plan Dalet was the blueprint used by the ..Israeli army… to expel Palestinians from their homeland during Israel’s establishment in 1948. As…Israeli historian Benny Morris noted in his landmark book on the events of 1948, Plan Dalet was “a strategic-ideological anchor and basis for expulsions by front, district, brigade and battalion commanders”… Today, this act of mass expulsion would be called ethnic cleansing.
Officially adopted on March 10, 1948, Plan Dalet specified which Palestinian cities and towns would be targeted and gave instructions for how to drive out their inhabitants and destroy their communities. It called for:
“Destruction of villages… especially those population centers which are difficult to control continuously… the population must be expelled outside the borders of the state.”
Three quarters of all Palestinians, about 750,000 people, were forced from their homes and made refugees during Israel’s establishment. Their homes, land, and other belongings were systematically destroyed or taken over by Israelis, while they were denied the right to return or any sort of compensation. More than 400 Palestinian towns and villages, including vibrant urban centers, were destroyed or repopulated with Jewish Israelis.” Plan Dalet & The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, IMEU
So, what have we seen over the last four months?
We’ve seen the terrorizing of an entire population that has experienced relentless bombing, destruction of vital infrastructure, a full blockade of food, water and medical supplies, and a mass exodus to the southernmost city in Gaza at gunpoint.
Is this not Plan Dalet?
It is. It’s a modern version of the original plan. That is why the IDF is bombing tent cities full of unarmed civilians who pose no threat to Israeli security. It’s not to fight Hamas but to terrorize the population into fleeing the city. That’s the goal. Israel knows that if they bomb the refugees, they will storm the border, breach the wall, and stream into Egypt en masse. That’s the plan in a nutshell.
And the plan appears to be succeeding. In fact, Netanyahu might be just days-away from finishing the work that was begun by Ben-Gurion. He has already started to increase the airstrikes on Rafah while a full-blown ground assault could be launched at any time. As the humanitarian crisis intensifies, the desperation and fear will grow eventually triggering a massive stampede for the Egyptian border. Once the Palestinians leave Gaza, they will fall under the guardianship of representatives of the international community who will transfer them to nations around the world. This is how Netanyahu intends to seize the land he will incorporate into a Greater Israel, by driving unarmed civilians out of their homes and into the desert.
The expulsion of the Palestinians shows that –behind the moral pontificating about human rights and ‘the rule of law’– the United States and Israel are capable of the most barbarous cruelty imaginable. It is truly shocking that the two nations can execute a filthy plan like this in broad daylight while the rest of the world sits on their hands.
We should all feel ashamed of ourselves.
Mike Whitney lives in Washington state. He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion (AK Press). Hopeless is also available in a Kindle edition. He can be reached at fergiewhitney@msn.com.
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9 responses to “Over a Million Palestinians Are About to be Forced Into Egypt at Gunpoint”
The joos need forced out of palestine. And those psychopaths in govt sent to prison.
The Jews were forced INTO Palestine after the western-funded Adolf’s exterminations ran into the ice of Stalingrad and the show-trial p$eudo ‘denazification’ of Germany at Nuremburg.
They were then indoctrinated to transfer their traumatised reactionary hate onto their fellow Semite Arabs while European white supremacism rides into the sunset in its stetson as Sheriff Wa$hington with Deputy £ondon and his Nato po$$€ of oi£igarch$.
The only spark of light flickering from this b£acKKK hole of £i€$ is the expanding consciousness of Jews worldwide that Nut&yahoo&Co are €$tab£ishing their leben$raum in their U$urped names.
To blame the Jews fits sweetly into the WA$P program, assisted conveniently by the incorporation into the genocidal b£ueprint of the Rot$chi£d honorary member of their predaTory c£a$$.
We are all Palestinians. The United States & NAZIsrael are Enemies of Mankind. I am ashamed of the Australian Federal Government’s support for Is-ray-Hell but the Zionists are, for now, very strong in my country. They control the Parliament. My eyes have been opened as to WHY Anti-Semitism exists, these NAZI-Zionist Jews, wilfully murdering an entire People, have created it in my heart.
Zioni$m is strong in Oz because it is a WA$P outpost of white supremacism, having accomplished it’s genocida£ program against its indigenous people before modern media landed to display the b€$tia£ity.
It was, after all, populated with the traumatised, impoverished, criminalised survivors of the same policies in the home islands.
The beat goes on.
In Canada another member of the ‘5 Eyes’ group, we have an even worst situation if such a thing was possible. As you probably know, Canada country who like OZ, New Zealand and of course England, fought against the Nazi scourge since 1939, lost during the war like 40 thousand+ people like OZ during WWII for a similar population size. Today we gave a standing ovation in parliament, to a Ukrainian Nazi who with tenths of supporters of Stepan Bandera their leader fought against Russia in full German SS uniform (Galician Army). In fact despite efforts by the Canadian government to hide this evil act, England shipped tenths of thousands of those Ukronazis to Canada, who after two generations developed descendants with the same ideology to this very day numbering in the hundreds of thousands after 80 years.. Who can top that up? America gladly imported a similar number of German Nazi scientists and also war criminals members of Germany’s SS to the country for the benefit of the US republic. One of the failures of Russia’s government, in lies in failing to denounce the European countries that today support attacks by the US Empire to destroy Russia, after the country lost 26+ million people during WWII fighting and destroying Nazi Germany. Some of those countries actively provided troops which together with the Ukrainians fought against Russia during the war. Namely: Croatia, Finland, Romania, Spain and even little Holland country that sent 200 thousands to fight in the Eastern Front. In their case, after the war many found refuge in England and West Germany, others were thrown in jail for many years and others executed for treason. Do not believe me brother, just check these facts on the web and the truth will set you free. Disgusting but true reality hidden from the general population.
Interesting to note that Romania switched sides on August 23,1944 and began fighting on the side of Russia. Apparently, the Romanians “saw the light”. It’s also interesting to note that many people in Eastern Europe, to this day, believe that had Germany won the war the people in Eastern Europe would be a lot better off. I believe the same. The cold war was started by the US and thousands, probably millions, of people in eastern Europe starved and certainly had poor quality of life. The iron curtain was a blockade package of economic sanctions much like the US is doing to Russia today, designed to stop economic development of Russia and Eastern Europe. Stalin kicked the Bolsheviks out of power in Russia and the cold war was on after that. The Bolsheviks were hard core murderers, thieves, and torturers. Wealthy and powerful people in New York who had backed the Bolshevik revolution were very upset having lost their attempt at ownership of Russia and put their muscle behind starting the cold war against Russia (Soviet Union). In many ways the Ukraine thing is an extension of the cold war. However, this time the US and their lackies are in serious trouble having seriously underestimated the power of Russia, not to mention China and others.
They’ve tried it with mass imigration elsewhere, ancient history, when zionism didn’t existed, and modern history are full of complaints. No one wanted them as with too many of them there were always problems Middle East, northern Africa, Russia, Europe and even New Yorkers didn’t wanted the them.
As I live and breathe, Israel and the United States have sunk to the bottom of the sea. I was an Army medic in Viet Nam. I will say this very slowly: The killing of innocent Vietnamese civilians throughout the American War in Viet Nam “were” high value military targets. We are now seeing the exact same thing in Gaza. If one does not know that the United States Government is a brutal narcissistic World Empire, then one does not understand politics in America. Israel and the U.S. are cut throat killers. They now have the karma of the devil…
This piece? I coulda’ written it myself. It’s what i’ve expressed in comment threads elsewhere.
——- We are witnessing the most brutal form of Western imperialism. Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing – the Zionists’ final solution – should be seen as part of the US-led Wests’ imperial war for “Full Spectrum Dominance”.
Israel is the US/West’s outpost in the Middle East. Netanyahu was most likely given the green light (with no ‘red lines’) to implement this Nakba end-stage in exchange for assistance in provoking a wider war, with the aim of luring Iran into a shooting war.
Gaza genocide, provoking a wider ME war, proxy war on Russia via Ukraine and war preparations for china ———> ALL different fronts for the US/West war against the inevitable emerging multi-polar world.