 They're calling ethnic cleansing voluntary migration now Israeli officials are now openly admitting that they're working on encouraging the migration of Palestinians from Gaza Ridiculously claiming that this migration would be voluntary despite their having deliberately made the enclave uninhabitable over the last three months The Times of Israel reports quote Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's two senior far-right partners endorsed the rebuilding of settlements in the Gaza Strip and the Encouraging of voluntary immigration of Palestinians on Monday while hawkish opposition MK Avigdor Lieberman called for Israel to reoccupy southern Lebanon Speaking during their party's risk respective factions meeting in the Knesset National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezla Smotrich Presented the migration of Palestinian civilians as a solution to the long-running conflict and as a prerequisite for securing the stability Necessary to allow residents of southern Israel to return to their homes The war presents an opportunity to concentrate on encouraging the migration of the residents of Gaza Ben-Gvir told reporters and members of his far-right Ozeh Yehudit party calling such a part policy a correct just moral and humane solution We cannot withdraw from any territory. We are in in the Gaza Strip. Not only do I not rule out Jewish settlement there I believe it is also an important thing. He said The correct solution to the ongoing Israeli Palestinian conflict is to encourage the voluntary Migration of Gaza's residents to countries that will agree to take in the refugees Smotrich told members of his religious Zionism party Predicting that Israel will permanently control the territory of the Gaza Strip including through the establishment of settlements and quote The repeated use of the word encourage stands out in these remarks given that Encouraging Gaza's inhabitants to flee their homeland is exactly what Israel's actions since October have been doing Once you've made 90% of Gaza's inhabitants homeless with internal displacement Forced half the population into starvation via siege warfare Destroyed the enclave's entire health care system to the point where disease is now running rampant All while reigning death and destruction from above in a wildly unprecedented manner with airstrikes routinely hitting designated safe zones You're offering the population some very strong encouragement indeed to vacate the region as soon as possible This obviously makes the argument for the voluntary migration of Gazans completely Nonsensical since violently coercing someone into doing something and ensuring that they'll die if they don't do it is the exact Opposite of what the word voluntary means But that's the slogan we're seeing pop up again and again as Israel draws closer to its final solution to the Palestinian problem in Gaza Netanyahu and his cohorts have been repeatedly uttering phrases like voluntary Resettlement and voluntary migration to describe the plan for Gaza's Palestinian inhabitants to either move to refugee camps set up in the adjacent Sinai Peninsula in Egypt or to be taken in by other nations around the world Netanyahu has said that a team must be established to ensure that those who want to leave Gaza to a third country can do so Iraq invader Tony Blair was reportedly being eyed as a potential leader of such a team by Israeli officials though Blair has denied this Mitchell Plitnick wrote the following on the absurdity of the voluntary migration talking point in an article from Manda Weiss last month quote The term voluntary immigration is likely to be heard quite a lot in the coming weeks and months and It is one of the most cynical dishonest terms one can imagine There is of course nothing voluntary about people leaving Gaza Israel has made the place unlivable and that was before the current bombardment Now they are essentially being forced to live under the threat of imminent death The people of Gaza did not suddenly lose their attachment to Palestine They will die if they stay as will their children If you cut off water electricity food and medical care Destroy all the shelter and then ask a person would you still like to stay their decision to leave is obviously not voluntary and Quote, but that's the narrative. They're going with apparently and It's nothing new Israel has been falsely claiming for generations that its violent forced expulsion of Palestinians known as the Nakba was voluntary as well in 2000 Palestinian academic God Akami wrote that quote the Israeli version of history that the Palestinians left Voluntarily or under orders from their leaders and that Israelis had no Responsibility material or moral for their plight has been successfully marketed to the world community for decades and quote The plot to relocate Palestinians from territories desired by Israel is also far from new In a 2002 article for the Guardian titled a new exodus for the Middle East Israeli historian Benny Morris writes that the agenda to transfer Palestinians to other countries has existed for as long as modern Zionism quote The idea of transfer is as old as modern Zionism and has accompanied its evolution and praxis during the past century And driving it was an iron logic There could be no viable Jewish state in all or part of Palestine Unless there was a mass displacement of Arab inhabitants who opposed its emergence and would constitute an active or potential Fifth column in their midst This logic was understood and enunciated before and during 1948 by Zionist Arab and British leaders and officials as early as 1995 Theodore Herzl the prophet and founder of Zionism wrote in his diary in Anticipation of the establishment of the Jewish state We shall try to spirit the penniless Arab population across the border by procuring employment for it in its transit Countries while denying it any employment in our country The removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly and quote This is a very very old agenda being presented as something brand new that is only just occurring to Israeli officials just now They didn't just come up with this. It's been fantasized about for as long as Israel was a twinkle in its founding fathers eyes This is the real objective in Gaza Not the elimination of Hamas whatever the hell you want to pretend that looks like in practice But the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip Hamas is not the target in Gaza Hamas is just the excuse