Rights advocates in the United States are urging President Joe Biden to end his administration’s “complicity” in Israeli rights abuses after key members of Israel’s government backed the idea of pushing Palestinians out of Gaza.
Far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich said this week that Israel should “encourage emigration” from the coastal enclave, home to an estimated 2.3 million Palestinians.
“If there are 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs in Gaza and not two million Arabs, the entire discussion on the day after [the war ends] will be totally different,” Smotrich said on Sunday, calling for the “voluntary migration” of Palestinians.
A day later, Ben-Gvir, who oversees national security, made a similar appeal, saying it was “a correct, just, moral and humane solution”, Israeli media outlets reported.
Gaza is not in Israel lol. It’s an occupied territory, not part of their country. Hamas runs Gaza as the official government.
Gaza is de facto controlled by Israel and as such is their responsibility.
Even if Hamas wasn’t a terrorist organization first, a political advocacy group second and a government as a WAY distant third, they still wouldn’t be able to properly take care of the people of Gaza, given the inhumane conditions created and enforced by Israel.
Both of these statements are false. Not “I disagree.” They are false and they would offend the fuck out of Gazans.
They control the food supply, the water supply, the power supply, the fuel supply, the medicine supply and the international aid supply.
That means that they’re in control and it’s in no way offensive towards Gazans to acknowledge that.
Hamas didn’t build any infrastructure with Iran’s money. They built bombs. Israel voluntarily provided power to Gaza, but is under no compulsion to provide power to an enemy they’re actively at war with.
Where would they have gotten water for the cement or fuel for the machines? Money’s not very useful when someone else is actively preventing you from using them on the things you need.
As does Israel with the tens of billions of dollars the US sends every year. Israel spends more than the entire GDP of Palestine on murdering Palestinians every year.
It’s a quasi-occupied territory that they have made sure can’t get power in any other way. For Israel not to provide power to Gaza is Israel preventing Gaza from having power at.
And they’re actively at war with Hamas, not the entire population. The vast majority of which has never harmed a single Israeli citizen and over 50% of which is CHILDREN.
Turns out the restrictions only applied because Hamas wants genocide. Money can, in fact, be exchanged for goods and services, and was for years prior to Hamas.
They are at war with the government of Gaza, correct.
So 6.8 million people have to suffer and die for it? You call that justice? Also, Hamas may want genocide, but they don’t have the power to carry it out. Israel’s government HAS the power and IS committing genocide.
The majority of Gazans weren’t alive the last time Hamas allowed a vote, let alone old enough to vote.
Hamas is not a legitimate government and their atrocities are neither the fault nor the responsibility of the civilian population.
They are the government, and they have been consistently attacking Israel for 16 years, culminating in “Israel’s 9/11”
Imagine Israel without the Iron Dome you don’t want to give them money for.
Suffering happens in war. That’s why war is bad. 6.8 million people won’t die though. There will be 6.77 million Palestinians in Gaza after this war, ideally closer to a 2 state solution than if Hamas was still around.