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- palestine@lemmy.ml
- endlesswar@lemmy.ca
In February, US President Donald Trump declared that “The US will take over the Gaza Strip” and “level out” the remaining buildings and transfer the Palestinian population to “other countries.” At the time, both US and international media dismissed Trump’s plan as an “outlandish” scheme with no prospect of realization.
The Israeli government approached Trump’s plan with deadly seriousness. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Trump’s “bold vision” for an ethnically cleansed Gaza. “We’re working on it,” Trump said during a meeting in Washington last month.
On Monday, the Netanyahu government effectively announced the beginning of the final stage of ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The plan includes a full military occupation of the entire Gaza Strip and the mass internment of the population in concentration camps under armed guard, as a prelude to forced marches through the desert or deportation by sea.
These concentration camps will be staffed by private US security contractors, with the Israel Defense Forces overseeing the distribution of starvation rations. According to a report this week by Reuters, the United States and Israel are actively discussing the formation of a “transitional government” headed by a US official to administer Gaza.
Echoing the “final solution,” the Nazi term for the genocide of Europe’s Jews, Netanyahu declared, “It’s time to launch the concluding moves.” The next day, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich explained the meaning of the Israeli government’s plan:
Within a year, … Gaza will be entirely destroyed, civilians will be sent to … the south to a humanitarian zone … and from there they will start to leave in great numbers to third countries.
The mechanism for the forcible displacement of the Palestinian people will be mass starvation. As National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir made clear, “No electricity, and no other aid should be allowed—neither by the [Israeli military] nor by civil society.”
On March 2, Israel imposed a total blockade on all food, water and electricity entering the Gaza Strip. As a result, the majority of Gaza’s community kitchens have been forced to shut down due to a lack of supplies, and cases of acute malnutrition have surged by more than 80 percent. Harrowing images have circulated of emaciated, starving children—victims of a famine that is entirely man-made.
I highly doubt the genocide as we are seeing it today would be happening if Harris had won. This plan at the very least wouldn’t have been proposed by the American president and received a rubber stamp of approval by the US government. We would have likely ceased aid to Israel by now and mobilized the UN to inflict other penalties.
Nothing points to that. They gave more money and held the exact same stance as Trump currently holds. Both parties receive substantial amounts from Israel, most of Trumps bribes are probably off the books though.
Both parties arent the same, but on the genocide issue they absolutely are. They are calling it Trumps plan to muddy the waters, nothing more.
I think it’s kind of silly to assume the party that literally lost the election because genocide was more important to them then getting votes, would be the one doing a 180 right after getting elected.
This lie is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Yes Democrats support Israel but there is no instance where they called for literal starving and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by pushing them out of their country.
Their goal was and has always been a two-state solution. Trump’s current stance is a one-state solution where the other state becomes a golf course.
Blinken tried to get support for ethnically cleansing Gaza in November 2023.
Whenever Biden set an ultimatum for Israel to let in aid, he never followed through or only haphazardly, never actually requiring Israel to provide enough aid to not starve people.
Harris reiterated that she will follow the policy of Biden.
The Democrats in power are behind ethnically cleansing and starving the Palestinians.
I guess we have different definitions of “stance”. They basically add their two state solution to fluff up their speechs, end it with “but Israel has a right to defend itself” and then declare another weapons package.
A small part of what they say directly contradicts the rest and their actions. It’s just there to keep us from bitching in my opinion.
I think Israel’s plan, currently being masqueraded as Trumps, would have happened regardless of the administration in charge, but we will never know because the good guys decided killing children was more important then keeping the white house.
When they can’t say anything supportive of Palestine without tacking that at the end, it really undermines any perception that they might actually try to do something. What’s the saying? (paraphrased) Whenever you add “but” to a sentence, you invalidate the point of whatever came before it.