Sunday, 1 December 2024

No Peace Coming For Gaza

President Joe Biden, who has spent the last few years calling for peace in Gaza while providing the weapons to prevent it, has expressed hope that this week’s ceasefire in Lebanon will be followed by one in Gaza but that seems unlikely as Israel may have found peace with Hezbollah in Lebanon but they have other plans for Gaza, and making peace know before they implement it would mess up their plans.  
In what has been one of the largest pieces of ethnic cleansing in the Middle East, Israel are seeing the opportunity to keep the manifesto pledge from Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Lukid Party that 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.
Now with Donald Trump preparing to take office in a few weeks’ time, there is growing talk in the region of the possibility that the new US administration will permit Israel to push some of the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza across the border into Egypt, a proposal that minister Bezalel Smotrich agrees with as he said that: 'The correct solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is to encourage the voluntary migration of Gaza’s residents to countries that will agree to take in the refugees'.
The mass transfer of Palestinians will be anything but 'voluntary', which is why Israel are slicing off the North of Gaza and preventing the 100,00 displaced Gazan's returning, pushing them into an ever decreasing and crowded area as satellite images show Israeli troops clearing an area across the width of north Gaza, destroying hundreds of buildings and farm land.
An IDF spokesperson told the BBC that they are only destroying buildings and civilian infrastructure and building their own military infrastructure out of 'operational necessity' to neutralise Hamas but deny that it will become a military zone and civilians will be told to leave the north although they refuse to say how long the partition will remain in place.
Only the most gullible or blinkered Israeli supporter would believe that it isn't the basis of plan to expel Palestinians from the area permanently and replace them settlers because it is exactly the blueprint for what they have done in the West Bank so peace won't be coming to Gaza, what is coming is an extension of the current genocide and wholesale ethnic cleansing of Palestine.