@jonathan_shamir - Jonathan Shamir
Israel's sudden concern to grant Palestinians the "choice" to leave Gaza is an ultimatum of its own contrivance: Between displacement (that every precedent shows will be permanent) and the destruction it is wreaking in realtime. đź§µon my report https://jewishcurrents.org/israels-humanitarian-expulsion
@jonathan_shamir - Jonathan Shamir
The right-wing think tanks and politicians that are advancing this as a "humanitarian" solution have not only managed to launder this idea into the mainstream. Their arguments and ties to lawmakers may also shed light on Israel's endgame
@jonathan_shamir - Jonathan Shamir
Raphael BenLevi, the head of Tikvah Fund's Churchill Program, wrote in a paper that Israel must "create an unbearable situation in the Gaza Strip" to force Palestinians out of Gaza. Ron Dermer, the man tasked by Netanyahu to explore expulsion, is affiliated with the same program https://t.co/89mU0QzkD8
@jonathan_shamir - Jonathan Shamir
Likud activist Amir Weitmann sent his Misgav Institute policy paper on expulsion to Egypt to the Intel Ministry. Soon after, a leaked document revealed that the ministry was considering it as a postwar solution + intel minister Gila Gamliel published an op-ed backing the idea https://t.co/Z29cuhtT3P
@jonathan_shamir - Jonathan Shamir
Finally, it is crucial to recall that this is not an aberration: Besides 1mil Palestinians expelled in past wars, Israel has advanced several "voluntary" initiatives in Gaza—from Meir's plan to pay off 60,000 to leave to Paraguay to Eshkol's emigration offices in refugee camps