The Lukid manifesto, Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Party, states that 'The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river' which seems pretty conclusive as meaning no Palestinian State of their own in the West Bank or Gaza which explains why they have gone to such pains to sabotage any talk of a two state solution.
Their plan has always been to squeeze the Palestinians into ever smaller areas and 'steal' the land by building settlements on it and that is what they have been doing, and what the West have been turning a blind eye to, for decades and then October 7th came and suddenly the opportunity to claim all the land to themselves presented itself and that isn't me saying that, that is coming from the Israeli politicians themselves.
Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for Palestinian residents of Gaza to leave and make way for the Israelis who could 'make the desert bloom' and on Sky News, Israel’s former ambassador to the US, Danny Ayalon, said: 'The people of Gaza should evacuate and go to the vast expanses on the other side of Rafah at the Sinai border in Egypt'.
Days after the Hamas attack, the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy think tank of former security officials, urged Netanyahu to 'seize the unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the whole Gaza Strip' which was echoed by the Israeli Intelligence Ministry which has recommended Gazan's be relocated to Egypt’s northern Sinai.
Israel’s Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, has said that Israels military response would be to 'eliminate everything. There will be no electricity and no water in Gaza, there will only be destruction' and Moshe Feiglin, a former Likud representative in Israel’s parliament, said: 'There is one and only one solution, which is to completely destroy Gaza before invading it. I mean destruction like what happened in Dresden and Hiroshima, without nuclear weapons. Gaza should be razed and Israel’s rule should be restored to the place. This is our country".
Amit Halevi, meanwhile, a Likud member in parliament, said one of the goals for the military action should be : 'No more Muslim land in the land of Israel'.
Nissim Vaturi, deputy speaker for Israel’s parliament, said 'Nakba? Expel them all' referring to the time when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled and hundreds of villages demolished from 1947 to 1948 as the state of Israel was being established and when Netanyahu was asked if he supported his National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich who said that the end goal of the assault on Gaza was to push out much of the Palestinian population and build Israeli settlements, replied 'I have no problem with that'.
The Times of Israel has reported that Israel was in negotiations with Congo to deport Palestinians there, though Israeli officials have called the report inaccurate and the Israeli 972mag has printed a leaked document from the Intelligence Ministry which declares an option should be 'the evacuation of civilians in Gaza to Sinai' and 'the establishment of tent cities and the construction of cities in a resettled area in northern Sinai' which would 'yield positive, long-term strategic outcomes for Israel'.
It has been obvious for decades that the Israeli endgame is for Palestinians to be pushed out of Gaza and the West Bank and then claim all of Palestine for themselves and they are taking the opportunity of the horrific actions of Hamas to expedite this and do exactly that in one large round of ethnic cleansing and genocide all wrapped into one.
I have long written and spoken about the Israeli abhorrent actions towards their neighbour and how hard it is to like Israel and nothing they are doing in Gaza and the West Bank today is changing that.