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An Israeli cabinet official has publicly admitted to the government’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, saying on television over the weekend that the country is “rolling out the Gaza Nakba.”

On Saturday, security cabinet member and Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter sat for a television interview with an Israeli news network. Dichter is part of the right-wing nationalist Likud party, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs.

“We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba,” Dichter said when asked if the recent images of northern Gaza residents evacuating south are comparable to images of the 1948 Nakba.

“From an operational point of view, there is no way to wage a war ― as the IDF seeks to do in Gaza ― with masses between the tanks and the soldiers,” he continued, according to a translation of the interview by Haaretz.

The Nakba, which in Arabic means “catastrophe,” refers to the mass displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Palestine was considered a multi-ethnic society until the tension between Arab and Jewish people rose as a result of both Jews migrating to flee persecution in Europe, as well as the Zionist movement attempting to establish a Jewish ethnostate in Palestine.

The tension escalated to war in 1948 after the UN General Assembly’s resolution trying to partition Palestine into two states was rejected a year earlier. The war resulted in the permanent displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians by the newly formed Israeli forces.

Despite the UN calling for Palestinian refugee return and property restitution, Israel has continued to deny the rights of Palestinians and carry out an apartheid for 75 years. The anniversary of the Nakba serves as a painful acknowledgment of the generational and ongoing trauma that Palestinians face both on their occupied land and outside the region.

“Gaza Nakba 2023,” Dichter said. “That’s how it’ll end.”

When later asked if labeling the current forced evacuation a Nakba means Palestinians won’t be able to return to Gaza City, Dichter said: “I don’t know how it’ll end up happening since Gaza City is one-third of the Strip ― half the land’s population but a third of the territory.”

Israel’s monthlong siege on Gaza has killed more than 11,000 people and displaced millions. Israeli forces told Palestinians to evacuate northern Gaza to avoid being killed, though several areas in the southern region have also been bombed.

On Friday, Netanyahu said that he wants “full security control” of Gaza with the power to “enter whenever we want” to kill who Israel perceives to be enemies.

They’d almost be stupid Not to have dug their tunnels and made hideouts under hospitals, really.

Now for IDF to find all the entrances and smoke them out.. ? Maybe.

Apparently when we said never again, we didn't really mean it.

That was about genocide.

All of the Israeli war plans I’ve seen any mention of pertain to exiling people from the land bordering Israel to create a physical geographical buffer zone free from terrorist bombing Israel.

Kinda makes sense, doesn’t it? I mean who wants neighbours that are firing rockets at them.

So, ethnic cleansing is acceptable, so long as it's the threat of murder, rather than murder being used as the primary means of committing it?

A two state solution is never going to happen, and the reason has to do with the Palestinian view of their situation. For the Palestinians, a two state solution would mean conceding part of their ancestral homeland to the Jews in perpetuity. They have already shown that they will never accept this.

I will add that the Palestinians have become so intransigent in their beliefs, because from every direction they get the message that the world supports them in this. Compare them to the Germans, who lost the Eastern third of their territory in WWII and have come to accept this. Not to mention the Mexicans, who lost a huge chunk of the Northern part of their country to the US and for some reason seem to have come to terms with that, despite having no reason to think they deserved that (unlike the Germans!).

Is it an ethnic cleansing if an ethnicity isn’t being “cleansed,” (killed) from the Earth?

Is exile from a land the same thing? Or is it simply shooing them away from your doorstep? And by them I don’t mind “different looking people with more melanated skin,” but rather “terrible neighbours that keep terrorizing your citizens with rocket assaults.”

Is it an ethnic cleansing if an ethnicity isn’t being “cleansed,” (killed) from the Earth?

It wouldn't surprise me.

A base under the hospital is a perfect hideout, I think hospital equipment help to conceal them from army scanners?

One thing tho: at the very end of the videos, what's written in the calendar boxes are not person names, it's simply days names ie. Monday, Tuesday....!

Ethnic cleansing is a more general term than genocide. Ethnic cleansing does include forced migration.

The only solution to the Israel/Palestine situation that would NOT involve any ethnic cleansing would be a single united Israel-Palestine with equal rights for everyone.

The only solution to the Israel/Palestine situation that would NOT involve any ethnic cleansing would be a single united Israel-Palestine with equal rights for everyone.