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AloeVera

(3,399 posts)
2. Out-of-the box thinking?
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 01:49 PM
Jul 4

How disingenuous of the Israeli government spokesperson. Expelling Palestinians from "The Holy Land", including Israel proper, is the dream of Zionism since the founding of Israel and certainly of Netanyahu and the religious nationalist extremists he is beholden to.

In fact a recent poll indicated that 82% of Jewish Israelis support the "transfer" (expulsion) of Palestinians from Gaza to other countries. Further, 56% even want the same for their OWN Palestinian citizens.

Trump did not come up with the "transfer" idea on his own. He is just doing Netanyahu' bidding according to Israeli popular opinion.

But this "while Gaza rebuilds" is a new one. Plausible deniability of ethnic cleansing. Who seriously thinks Palestinians will be allowed back in after the Israeli settlers have taken it all for themselves? Did it happen in 1948, 1967 or in the decades of confiscation and dispossession since?

That's the end goal of this "war" - annexation and resettlement. The Gaza Riviera/Kushner Resorts shiny object is just distraction and obfuscation.

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