{"id":277562,"date":"2023-12-09T06:10:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T06:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=277562"},"modified":"2023-12-10T09:50:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T09:50:24","slug":"towards-a-palestine-without-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=277562","title":{"rendered":"Towards a Palestine Without Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philip Giraldi \u2013 The Unz Review Dec 7, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

On Friday December 1st<\/sup> active Israeli combat operations resumed directed against Gaza after a one week \u201cpause\u201d to exchange hostages and prisoners. It should surprise no one to learn that Israel\u2019s ultimate objective in its sustained war crime directed against Gaza is to kill and\/or drive out its 2.3 million Palestinian inhabitants. The adopted policy, which has been revealed through a top level Israeli intelligence document<\/a> relating to options for operations in Gaza that was leaked to the media, \u201c\u2026recommends a full population transfer as its preferred course of action. \u2026\u201d to include \u201cthe evacuation of the civilian population from Gaza to Sinai.\u201d And Israel should \u201cMake It Clear [to the refugees that] there Is No Hope of Returning [home]\u201d with the final objective being \u201cwiping Gaza off the map.\u201d<\/p>\n

Less widely observed or even reported in the western media, however, is the associated campaign to drive out the Palestinians living in the other major Arab enclave the West Bank, where armed settlers and soldiers have been shooting to kill and imprisoning local residents, to include children, to set the stage for forcing the local population across the Jordan River into Jordan itself. Part of the program has been to destroy the livelihoods of the 3 million plus Palestinians who have resisted previous efforts to pressure them into leaving what remains of Palestine. It is the harvest season in Palestine and the major cash crop is olive oil, so settlers and soldiers have been destroying olive trees and closing off roads so that the olives cannot be harvested and brought to market. It is just one measure of the hardships being inflicted on the Palestinians by an Israeli government that clearly believes that the way to treat Arabs is to regularly force them to endure maximum pain and suffering. Many would also argue that it is precisely those policies that produced the armed incursion into Israel by Hamas.<\/p>\n

The Israeli intelligence assessment also cites the need to keep \u201cfriends\u201d in the US and NATO supportive, or at least not critical, of the ethnic cleansing or genocide of the Palestinians while it is taking place. That would seem to be rather tricky as there have been large demonstrations in most European capitals as well as in American cities calling for a ceasefire and supporting the Palestinians. Against that, European leaders have been reluctant to directly criticize Israel and have repeatedly voiced their delusional view that Israel has a \u201cright to defend itself,\u201d a punchline that one often hears in the halls of the US Congress and coming from the White House.<\/p>\n

UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese has dismissed the \u201cdefense\u201d argument as \u201cIsrael cannot claim self-defense from a threat that emanates from a territory that it occupies \u2013 from a territory that is kept under belligerent occupation.\u201d Beyond that, defending oneself should not necessarily include the targeted killing of thousands of helpless civilians together with the wholesale destruction of infrastructure to include hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, churches and mosques, which never seems to occur to the Nancy Pelosis and Chuck Schumers who unfortunately share our planet with us. Nor to Joe Biden, apparently, as he is dependent on Jewish donations and friendly media to support his next presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

To help the ethnic cleansing succeed as smoothly as possible, the Israeli intelligence produced document encourages the Israel government to work through all its friendly media and lobbying groups to develop a publicity campaign in the Western world to promote the transfer plan by obtaining international support \u201cin a way that does not incite or vilify Israel.\u201d This would be done by presenting the expulsion of Gaza\u2019s population in a positive light as a humanitarian necessity, arguing that relocation will lead to \u201cfewer casualties among the civilian population compared to the expected casualties if the population remains.\u201d The document also recommends that the United States should be enlisted in the process to exert pressure on Egypt to absorb the Palestinian residents of Gaza.<\/p>\n

No doubt the gutless Mr. Biden will do whatever it takes to help his Zionist friends and it is interesting to note that the Israeli government is already heavily engaged in its propaganda blitz in the United States, where it helps to have a strongly Jewish Hollywood as an ally. A notorious video<\/a> of a choir of Jewish children singing angelic praise for mass murder is being circulated both by the Israeli government and by Jewish Lobby groups. The production, entitled in Hebrew translated into English as \u201cThe Friendship Song 2023,\u201d was produced by Israel\u2019s Rosenbaum Communications and it could quite possibly represent a new low in manipulative war propaganda, even low for Israel. The video was so objectionable that it was removed from its biggest platform \u201cfor violating You Tube\u2019s Terms of Service.\u201d The children affirmed in their song that \u201cwe will show the world how we destroyed our enemy\u2026within a year we will annihilate everyone.\u201d \u201cEveryone\u201d was intended to mean all the Palestinians.<\/p>\n

There is also a film entitled \u201cBearing Witness,\u201d which was produced by the Israeli army\u2019s so-called Spokespersons Unit, which has been making the rounds on the West Coast and also in private showings before members of congress. The film shows alleged \u201cHamas atrocities\u201d and has been viewed at select gatherings for the past three weeks, with one showing in New York City hosted by actress Gal Gadot, an Israeli army veteran last seen playing Wonder Woman, causing a riot when protesters showed up. A recent showing<\/a> to a group of Senators on Capitol Hill concluded with America\u2019s Solons staggering out crying and otherwise expressing both their horror and their emotion as well as their love for Israel. Interestingly, the \u201cevidence\u201d presented in the film has been contradicted by a number of eyewitnesses and Jewish hostage\/survivors of the October 7th<\/sup> attack by Hamas, who have stated that they were treated well and that most of the deaths came not from Hamas but from the counter-attack by the Israeli military.<\/p>\n

But truly the biggest surprise in where the catastrophe of Gaza might be leading is coming from the Europeans. One would expect maneuvering to avoid too deep involvement in the Gaza conflict, but quite to the contrary some European leaders are eager to help Israel out in its search for a \u201cfinal solution\u201d for dealing with the Palestinians. Referring to the mass expulsion of millions of people as any kind of \u201csolution\u201d is apparently a polite expression for what has surfaced regarding the EU\u2019s attempted bribery of Egypt and Jordan. Reportedly<\/a>, the EU President, Ursula von der Leyen, has recently visited Egypt and Jordan to present them with financial inducements ($10bn for Egypt and $5bn for Jordan), in exchange for the transfer of the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip to their territory \u2013 effectively to facilitate the evacuation of the Palestinian population from the Strip in line with Israel\u2019s intention to ethnically cleanse Gaza.<\/p>\n

And there should be no doubt that the Netanyahu government has clearly decided to use the Hamas attack as an excuse to finally put an end to what it sees as the Gaza problem. The Israeli view on the proper outcome has been several times outlined by government officials, one of whom is prepared to use his country\u2019s nominally secret nuclear weapons to clear out the Gaza Strip completely. On the day after the Hamas attack, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant notoriously announced that<\/a> the \u201chuman animals\u201d in Gaza would be subjected to a \u201csiege\u201d including being cut off from all food, water, and electricity. Likud Knesset Member Ariel Kallner has elaborated how \u201cthe solution\u2026to move the population to Egypt, is a logical and necessary solution.\u201d Former minister Ayalet Shaked\u2019s tweet \u201cAfter we turn Khan Yunis into a soccer field, we need to tell the countries that each of them take a quota: We need all 2 million to leave.\u201d That\u2019s what Israel\u2019s leadership increasingly sees as its own version of the \u201csolution\u201d for Gaza. And nobody is mentioning how there will, of course, be a payoff in getting rid of the Gazans when the oil and gas fields off the Gaza shoreline fall into Israel\u2019s hands to be exploited.<\/p>\n

Another Israeli leadership bright spark is not intimidated by words like \u201cgenocide\u201d and is prepared to unleash plague to get rid of the Gazans. Major General Giora Eiland has been arguing<\/a> that all Palestinians in Gaza are legitimate enemy terrorist targets and that even a \u201csevere epidemic\u201d in Gaza will only serve a good cause, i.e. to \u201cbring victory closer.\u201d And it does not end there. Government minister in charge of the West Bank Bezalel Smotrich wants to apply the Gaza solution<\/a> to the remaining Palestinian territory that he oversees as the occupying power. Smotrich, a settler himself, has submitted a plan for Israel to annex the entire West Bank. He claims that Palestinian territories on the West Bank are \u201chome\u201d to two million nazis who will have to be forced to leave.<\/p>\n

Is there no end to the carnage in sight? Not really, as even the Israelis are predicting a drawn-out months long campaign amidst the rubble of Gaza to completely destroy Hamas. The key to some kind of admittedly temporary resolution is for the United States to actually use its considerable leverage over Israel due to the money and weapons that it is supplying to keep the war going. A ceasefire driven by Washington would create some space to consider the damage that is being done to all sides involved while seeking a solution that gives Israel security and the Palestinians some kind of real sovereignty where they will not feel trapped and persecuted. Alas, however, such forward thinking is not about to come out of Washington and hopes for a European initiative are likely to be squashed by EU President Ursula von der Leyen and her advisers, all of whom seem intent on vindicating Israel\u2019s actions. And, like the slaughtered Ukrainian soldier-victims in that other senseless and avoidable conflict, the ones who will be paying the biggest price will inevitably be the ordinary defenseless Palestinians who will wind up bereft of their homes, their jobs and, all too often, their very lives.<\/p>\n

Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is <\/em>councilforthenationalinterest.org,<\/em><\/strong> address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is <\/em>inform@cnionline.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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