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In reply to the discussion: Sanders to Introduce Amendment to End U.S. Complicity in Netanyahu's War on Palestinian People [View all]radius777
(3,921 posts)42. Bernie is correct. As Michelle Goldberg recently
stated in her NYT column:
https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/foreign-and-security-policy/america-must-face-up-to-israels-extremism-7268/
25.01.2024 | Michelle Goldberg
America must face up to Israels extremism
The resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza is slowly becoming a key official policy of the Israeli government
Two far-right members of Israels Cabinet the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich caused an international uproar this week with their calls to depopulate the Gaza Strip. If in Gaza there will be 100 000 or 200 000 Arabs and not two million, the entire conversation on the day after will look different, said Smotrich, who called for most civilians in Gaza to be resettled in other countries. The war, said Ben-Gvir, presents an opportunity to concentrate on encouraging the migration of the residents of Gaza, facilitating Israeli settlement in the region.
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But its not clear, because were writing a blank check to a government whose leader is only a bit more coy than Ben-Gvir and Smotrich about his intentions for Gaza. According to The Times of Israel, Netanyahu told a Likud faction he is searching for countries that residents of the Gaza Strip can be sent to. Our problem, he reportedly said, is finding countries that are willing to absorb Gazans, and we are working on it. The newspaper reported that the voluntary resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza is slowly becoming a key official policy of the government, with a senior official saying that Israel has held talks with several countries for their potential absorption.
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Pro-Israel Democrats want to back a war to remove Hamas from Gaza. But increasingly, it looks as if America is underwriting a war to remove Gazans from Gaza. Experts in international law can debate whether the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza can be classified as genocidal, as South Africa is claiming at the International Court of Justice, or as some lesser type of war crime. But whatever you want to call attempts to thin out Gazas population as Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom described an alleged Netanyahu proposal the United States is implicated in them.
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25.01.2024 | Michelle Goldberg
America must face up to Israels extremism
The resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza is slowly becoming a key official policy of the Israeli government
Two far-right members of Israels Cabinet the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich caused an international uproar this week with their calls to depopulate the Gaza Strip. If in Gaza there will be 100 000 or 200 000 Arabs and not two million, the entire conversation on the day after will look different, said Smotrich, who called for most civilians in Gaza to be resettled in other countries. The war, said Ben-Gvir, presents an opportunity to concentrate on encouraging the migration of the residents of Gaza, facilitating Israeli settlement in the region.
...
But its not clear, because were writing a blank check to a government whose leader is only a bit more coy than Ben-Gvir and Smotrich about his intentions for Gaza. According to The Times of Israel, Netanyahu told a Likud faction he is searching for countries that residents of the Gaza Strip can be sent to. Our problem, he reportedly said, is finding countries that are willing to absorb Gazans, and we are working on it. The newspaper reported that the voluntary resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza is slowly becoming a key official policy of the government, with a senior official saying that Israel has held talks with several countries for their potential absorption.
...
Pro-Israel Democrats want to back a war to remove Hamas from Gaza. But increasingly, it looks as if America is underwriting a war to remove Gazans from Gaza. Experts in international law can debate whether the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza can be classified as genocidal, as South Africa is claiming at the International Court of Justice, or as some lesser type of war crime. But whatever you want to call attempts to thin out Gazas population as Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom described an alleged Netanyahu proposal the United States is implicated in them.
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Sanders to Introduce Amendment to End U.S. Complicity in Netanyahu's War on Palestinian People [View all]
Donkees
Feb 2024
OP
I agree with Bernie. I also like that he names it Netanyahu's war on the Palestinian people.
brush
Feb 2024
#1
Agree. As an 'independent' he doesn't have to help Biden's long term strategy for the ME. Or make tough
ancianita
Feb 2024
#15
Agreed. Our continued complicity may cost Dems votes among Arab and Muslim Americans...
brush
Feb 2024
#5
Just brainstorming a remotely plausible leader that is not from The Land of Make Believe
TheKentuckian
Feb 2024
#91
We can expect the far right Israeli government to claim Palestinian civilians are Hamas.
canuckledragger
Feb 2024
#13
Senator Sanders has done less to 'undercut' President Biden than a few
DemocraticPatriot
Feb 2024
#88
"complaints against Sanders go back to 2016." Why? Did he change in that year from
betsuni
Feb 2024
#90
I consider what Fetterman did to be grandstanding. Bernie is introducing a policy amendment to the
Autumn
Feb 2024
#49
When will Sanders introduce an amendment in support of Israelis who oppose Netanyahu?
Beastly Boy
Feb 2024
#12
That would be a 'Senate resolution', which would be legally meaningless---
DemocraticPatriot
Feb 2024
#40
Sounds like something Israeli politicians should do. Bernie is an American, his job is
Autumn
Feb 2024
#50
And now your trying to imply I said things I absolutely did not say at all.
canuckledragger
Feb 2024
#31
But it IS about retribution, and not a mistake, but a fact clear as day.
canuckledragger
Feb 2024
#58
again, you're implying things I absolutely have not posted, as you defend the indefensible.
canuckledragger
Feb 2024
#75
You mean the indoctrinated instead of innocents ....got your I words mixed up didya
GuppyGal
Feb 2024
#63
You don't need to be involved in taking drugs to know what it is, as it has been in the news a lot:
Celerity
Feb 2024
#45
Why would he? it won't be his fault. It will be Netanyahu's and the Israeli people fault for allowing
Autumn
Feb 2024
#51
I wouldn't matter, these people would still call him "Genocide Joe" because he doesn't have a magic wand.
tritsofme
Feb 2024
#28
Cornell West, Nina Turner, David Sirota, Briahana Joy Gray. They all have something in common, and it is the
JohnSJ
Feb 2024
#57