A.J. Caschetta, Middle East Forum
"Few nations are interested in taking residents of Gaza because Palestinians have worn out their welcome wherever they have gone."
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| The remains of the Al-Najjar Hospital, which was destroyed during an Israeli military operation in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, January 20, 2025. |
"When Donald Trump proposed to relocate over a million people from Gaza while it is rebuilt, many derided it as a combination of anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia. Others thought it just too ridiculous to take seriously. But more people are coming around to his way of thinking.
"Liel Leibovitz now argues that, “we must embrace this proposal, because at its heart is the one true and inescapable sentiment: Israelis can no longer be expected to live in proximity to those who desire nothing more than their death.”
"Gazans who don’t want to fight Israelis and who have sought to leave the embattled strip of land are perhaps the world’s only genuine refugees not permitted to leave a war zone, but where to send them and their bloodthirsty neighbors who live for the opportunity to kill is perhaps the biggest problem with the proposal.
"Those who protest the loudest about Trump’s alleged “ethnic cleansing” plan are more interested in exploiting Gazans for the purpose of destroying Israel than helping them. Don’t expect Spain, Norway, or Ireland to welcome any of them.
"And what about Muslim and Arab nations? Are they, too, racist or “Islamophobic” for endorsing the plan? The UAE’s Ambassador to the U.S., Yousef Al Otaiba, recently told an interviewer, “I don’t see an alternative to what’s being proposed.”
"The Wall Street Journal’s Sadanand Dhume took up the topic in a recent column titled “If Indians and Pakistanis Can Relocate, Why Can’t Gazans?”
"Dhume noted that “Many population transfers have taken place over the last century. … Only in the Palestinian case has the refugee question festered endlessly.”
"In a January 26, 2025, press release, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called Trump’s proposal “dangerous nonsense,” invoking the ethnic cleansing trope." . . .
Israel to resume war in Gaza and ‘eradicate Hamas,’ cutting off aid and bombarding Strip with troops "Israeli decision-makers plan to resume the Gaza war in four to six weeks with overwhelming force, sending in tens of thousands of troops to conquer the entire strip in a single coordinated offensive against Hamas.
"Incoming military chief of staff Eyal Zamir has, at the direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz, started developing the plan, according to several current and former Israeli officials with knowledge of high-level discussions.
"Under the plan, Israel will deploy more troops to Gaza than it has to this point in the war—over 50,000—before relocating the civilian population to humanitarian zones and waging a ruthless ground campaign against Palestinian terrorists across the rest of the strip." . . .
“It’s going to be decisive,” said Amir Avivi, a former Israeli brigadier general who has advised the Israeli government and military during the war. “Israel will use every tool it has to conquer Gaza and eradicate Hamas.”
Quick, before US Democrats like these below come back into power!
