Concerns about Israeli plans for Gaza and Palestinian displacement

[JadeHare]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/28/middleeast/israel-netanyahu-military-70-percent-gaza-intl

Doesn’t look like there will be much land left for the Palestinians.

And in other news, from the Guardian:

“Israel’s defence minister has said he is committed to the ethnic cleansing of Gaza through large-scale migration of Palestinians as part of Israel’s long-term plans for the territory.
Israel Katz said the government would implement a plan for large numbers of Palestinians to leave Gaza “at the right time and in the right manner”, in a statement on Wednesday marking the targeted killing of Mohammed Odeh, Hamas’s most recent military commander.
Pushing for mass departures violates Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan for Gaza, which Israel signed last year. The second point of the plan states: “Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough.”
Israel’s government has promoted the prospect of Gaza without Palestinians since Trump suggested early last year that hundreds of thousands of people should leave to “clean out” the strip for reconstruction.
Last year Israel set up a bureau for “voluntary emigration” and eased travel restrictions for Palestinians who wanted to make a one-way journey out of the strip.
The forced transfer of civilian populations is a war crime and a crime against humanity. Israeli officials, including Katz, use the term “voluntary migration” to describe their ”

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That’s stolen now so moving swiftly on?

I’ve heard Lebanon is beautiful. Prime real estate beckons.

I’m sorry @JadeHare

Trying not to despair.

There is a sense of inevitability, but it is all so incremental. Haaretz on the necessity to speed up the process:

However, in light of the government's unjust policies, these sanctions will broaden, and eventually every Israeli citizen will feel their impact. The basic demand won't just be for Israel to cease creating facts on the ground, but for it to restore the situation to its previous state.
One can only hope this happens while Benjamin Netanyahu's government is still in power, so that it will have to deal with the pressure. However, if the pressure is applied to a new government formed after the election, one not based on ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel will face a serious problem.

The thing is it is not just about human rights. It is the fact those products, like Medjool dates and avocados, are grown on stolen land. Buying them is effectively buying contraband and rewarding the land thieves.

How can people fail to see that this is because Israel is our ally and we are complicit? We (the West) are actively supporting Israel and providing weapons and funding. We are protecting the politicans involved by refusing to arrest Netanyahu when he's travelled as required by the International Criminal Court. Our politicans are refusing to so much as impose sanctions in response to genoncide. It's difficult to even speak out again the actions of the state of Israel because politicans are fearful of being labelled antisematic. We are not supporting the Sryian regime! Instead in Australia, the Israeli president who has actively called for war crimes was invited to tour Australia and speak to school children. I suppose the safety and right of Palestian children are utterly important.

It's just very hard to fathom that on an article where a leading Israeli politican has called for ethnic cleansing, which is backed up by these actions having taken place in Gaza already, people are suggesting that we're racist for responding. If your argument is that it's antisematism for people to object to ethnic cleansing and war crimes when they're carried out by the Israeli state then that's quite troubling.

The wish to harm and remove one side from the land is shared by both sides. This article outlines a plan to remove all Palestians from their land. Israel have occupied the Westbank for many decades and actively conducted Apartheid. Many Palestians can't walk on streets, access shops or access their homes because of their race. The violence from illegal settlers is extreme and the IDF have annouced that Palestians who harm an Israeli who is illegally occupying their land will be killed. Ethnic cleansing will be met with resistance which will place innocent Israeli citizens in danger. Tel Aviv interprets this as the fault of Palestinians are more walls go and rules tighten.

Obviously it's not that simple and the wrongs on both sides go back to practically biblical times. But the situation can't be summarised as Israel defending against Palestinians who want to harm them for no reason (nor are the Palestians simply in the right). The settlers have stated very quickly that they want the Palestians to be removed from their land and, as often stated, die.

The hatred is sadly enormous on both sides but only Israel is empowered to build walls and checkpoints and remove Gazan's from their lands. Any ethnic clearning and illegal occupation of land should be strictly forbidden and enforced by the international community.