See, there’s the “ethnic cleansing” Israel wanted all along!
Oppress Palestinians, they fight back, so now you can bomb them and steal their homes.
This was quite literally always the plan according to leaked Israeli government documents.
You may not realize it, but this is why Hamas was telling people to stay in their houses and not leave. Because this has happened before, this is not a new thing.
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TEL AVIV — While the world tries to work out what Israel’s goals are in Gaza, a prominent settler from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party is seizing on a moment of national crisis to tell him to reintroduce West Bank-style settlements in the coastal enclave as a defensive belt.
Yossi Dagan, an influential figure on Israel’s right wing who leads a settler community in the occupied West Bank, told POLITICO in an interview it was time to turn the clock back to before 2005 and rebuild settlements in Gaza.
“If you have communities and people, you have the army and you have more control, and whenever you retreat from the land, you have what happened — a Holocaust,” said Dagan, who has close ties with rightwing American Christian Evangelicals, and has been an ardent supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, a far-right Israeli minister overseeing the police, is giving rifles to West Bank settlers to form what he describes as “security squads” to protect settlements.
The prospect of the Israeli prime minister ultimately opting to reassert control over the Gaza Strip for the long haul terrifies Israel’s Western allies.
There are rising fears in Washington and European capitals that Netanyahu might be unable to resist the raucous chorus for annexation, if he wants to preserve his governing coalition, which is dependent on religious nationalists and settlers.
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The Iranian government should also be on the hook for a rebuild.
