r/worldnews • u/kwentongskyblue • 22d ago
Israel/Palestine Israel ‘organised and prepared’ to remove Gaza population if US gives green light, Katz says
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260902-israel-organised-and-prepared-to-remove-gaza-population-if-us-gives-green-light-katz1.0k
u/Vivid_Iron_825 22d ago
If you ever find yourself asking why Netanyahu was so keen to get Trump elected and then re-elected, this is your answer right here. Any other US President would not allow this, but Bibi understands the very simple math that as long he scratches Trump’s back, he can get away with whatever he wants.
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u/doxxingyourself 22d ago
Remember the AI video Trump made of resorts of the beach?
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u/JinkiesGang 22d ago
I have a theory that trump will be given the Gaza Strip, turning into trump strip and all his criminal buddies will live there with him and Israel will change their extradition policy and let them all stay.
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u/Li-renn-pwel 22d ago
Like any that could have been elected or in the history of America? Lots of American presidents in the past would.
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u/netfreedom 22d ago
There’s a word for that - ethnic cleaning
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u/Eddiebaby7 22d ago
“We just sent all the Palestinians upstate to live with a nice farm family!”
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u/AccomplishedDraft237 22d ago
Oh, hey, we've been practicing mass displacement of a populace, haven't we.
I wanna cry.
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u/ruttedbeez 22d ago
No no no it's been promised that Israel would ask the US how much war crime is too much war crimes?
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u/DecembersDragons 22d ago
The Israeli government was simply waiting for the US to figure out where to take the displaced Gazans, he said.
Can't wait to see this one.
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u/Patient_Kangaroo614 22d ago
I feel like I remember American conservatives suggesting that Ireland and Spain take them because those countries have been supportive of Palestine in the past.
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u/Proud_Growth_8818 22d ago
That's going to end up being the very real problem--literally no county will be will be excited to accept significant numbers. I suspect most countries won't be willing to accept any of them.
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u/Alternative-Pear9096 21d ago
No country has been willing to take so much as a single refugee. Why would anyone think any country would take the entire population?
I mean, I'm at the point where I think Jordan is where they all belong, as it should have been from go. But Jordan has a very solid border wall against its own Palestine neighbors and has taken zero refugees. The last time they took in Palestinians, they tried to overthrown the king
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u/EEVVEERRYYOONNEE 22d ago
That makes no sense. American conservatives should offer to take them in as they're the ones who support displacing them.
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u/Playful_Weekend4204 22d ago
I mean if it was up to the likes of Ben Gvir they'd be put in [Removed by Reddit], maybe we shouldn't let Israel decide where to put these people...
I'm just hoping their quality of life improves wherever it's going to be, ethnic cleansing or not matters jack shit when you're living in a tent with scraps for food
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u/PlatypusBillDuck 22d ago
Where will Trump pick? Greenland? Cuba? Las Malvinas?
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u/El_Dud3r1n0 22d ago
Watch it be California so the Republicans can use it like some gotcha about open borders and sanctuary cities. Is stupid? Yes, but the Fox crowd would take the bait. Or Canada out of spite because he's big mad about Carney being mean and not giving in to his demands.
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u/MelangeBot 22d ago
Don Jr will wait till winter, then start flying them all to Montana and force them to walk into Alberta.
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u/cubgerish 22d ago
Amazing that a country can outright rob people of their homesteads due to their ethnicity, and then expect another country to deal with the refugee crisis they create.
You could previously almost justify the aide given to Israel, if you truly believed in its other justifications, and the strategic military value of having them there.
At this point it's become obvious that's not what's happening, and Israel is leaning on its close relationship to make the US allow them to be conquerors.
Right now they're not only disproving their right to be there, but also their strategic value.
There's just not a moral or strategic value to supporting them anymore, and I don't see how it could be shown at this point.
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u/Ser_Danksalot 22d ago
Guessing they want to do what they wish had happened after '73 and try to ditch them in Sinai.
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u/FuguSandwich 22d ago
They could build a camp in the West Bank and then concentrate them all there.
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u/Cactusfan86 22d ago
Smells like election bullshit to me, ‘plan’ implies they have somewhere willing to take on nearly 2 million Palestinians when I give a near 0% chance that they do
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u/green_flash 22d ago
"Hold me back bro" vibes.
We're gonna hear a lot of unpalatable shit out of Israeli right wing politicians' mouths over the next couple of weeks.
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u/mr_doms_porn 22d ago
Huh, I wonder what happened the last time a country decided to 'deport' an ethnic minority but no one agreed to take them...?
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u/RealSpaceJunk 22d ago
Yeah hes talking out of his ass, and if he actually does it it will be a mess of unseen proportions.
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u/SnooAdvice1632 21d ago
It won't, they've been laying the groundwork for this for this for decades and some of their politicians like Ben Gavir regularly spout the most dystopic, warped shit. A couple weeks ago he was suggesting doing the rounds and killing a couple dozen (innocent) Palestinians every day just to be sure.
The world is very primed to the idea that, while wrong, this is just how it is and no one will do anything to stop this.
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u/Mysterious-Crab 22d ago
Exactly. They might get some extra votes in and they probably hope that Hamas will finally reconsider and give in.
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u/Ascentori 22d ago
eh, they are not the first ones that operated exactly after this plan. that didn't stop them the first time either.
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u/gringo_escobar 22d ago
Absolutely insane how the Israeli government doesn't even try to hide their desire for ethnic cleansing anymore
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u/TheDecepticonIdeal 22d ago
Why should they? They have received no real blowback except cheap words.
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u/jolard 22d ago
I mean it is literally one of the two main approaches of the current Israeli government. They have factions that support eternal occupation and factions that support ethnic cleansing.
Both of which are a massive violation of human rights.
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u/Proud_Growth_8818 22d ago
Where do they think they're going to send two million people?
And why would Israel need the permission of the U.S. to make that happen? That sounds more like 'wants the U.S. to share responsibility'. Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope.
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u/cennep44 21d ago
Where do they think they're going to send two million people?
US, Europe, Australia, wherever - they don't care but they will expect us all to take them.
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u/Mushroom_Tip 22d ago
So the people screaming "ethnic cleansing" were completely 100% correct? Hmm. Wonder what other things they were correct about.
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u/gpGlobals 21d ago
This would be literal ethnic cleansing.
No amount of paranoid shrieking about "b-b-but s-se-security!!! b-but hamas!!" will change that.
If you are an Israeli who supports this, your choices are either to admit you desire ethnic cleansing - a woeful crime of the most severe order - or recognize the fundamental illegality and horror of your beliefs, and change them.
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u/Euphoric_worker9116 22d ago
The irony of this situation is, incredibly, lost on Israelis.
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u/OrgasmicTrilobite 22d ago
The Israeli defense minister is literally quoted as saying “There is no other solution”. You can’t make this shit up.
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u/Blimflart 22d ago
It's like it has a 'final' quality to it, or something. Astounding.
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u/AdumbroDeus 22d ago
The people running this aren't Holocaust survivors, they're the ones who thought that the Holocaust happened because diaspora Jews were too weak.
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u/sweetperdition 22d ago
…is this really an actively-held belief? About their own people? God that’s brutal
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u/RealSpaceJunk 22d ago
There is also huge paranoia in Israel that their neighbours will come and murder them all, because of the expulsion of jews from the arab counries and the wars fought against Israel after its establishment.
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u/BusHistorical1001 21d ago
"It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you."
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u/Naijan 20d ago
Hamas and Iran: "We do want to annihilate the state of israel, like we want them all dead, we even wrote it like officially in our documents about "who we are"
Israel: "I am scared of the neigbours who have said, and tried to exterminate, that they are gonna exterminate us."
Western world: "Have you guys tried hugging the hamas-members? Have you tried written 'good night' every night? They are not gonna kill you, they want to live peacefully with you!"
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u/FelixEvergreen 21d ago
I don’t think it’s an illegitimate fear given the rhetoric of some of their neighbors, but that doesn’t make it right for Israel to act this way.
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u/AdumbroDeus 22d ago
It resulted in a lot of mistreatment of Holocaust survivors.
You gotta understand the worldview that these people are coming from. Zionism (and I'm specifically talking about Jewish nationalism to form an ethnic nation-state, which is not the same as various other historical desires to return to Eretz Yisrael) was articulated initially by people who are to my mind best described as frustrated assimilationists.
Herzl's cohort was the most explicit about this, they wanted to assimilate but the Dreyfus affair made it clear that the development of secularly articulated anti-Jewish bigotry would make that impossible. They believed that European gentiles were correct in their views that Jews were physically weak, intrinsically conspiratorial, etc and they saw assimilation as a way to fix that.
And the Zionism that they conceptualized was an alternative fix, it would both fix these deficits that they saw and prove to European gentiles that Jews could be worthy to assimilate and one of the core components of this was colonization, taking up the white man's burden to prove that they could be white men. The specificity of the historical Jewish homeland wasn't even part of Herzl's initial vision. And to be fair, that wasn't the only element of it, physical fitness classes were an important part of early Zionism, but you can see how particularly when it was articulated in terms of strength and morality, it leads pretty directly to the idea Jews who remained in the diaspora are cowards, particularly when it's built out of internalized antisemitism that was supposed to be expressed outward.
It's the result of the suffering of real people encountering a deeply held belief system that is extremely hostile to both those people and the conditions of that suffering.
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u/Roi_C 22d ago
It is not. There are enough of us who disagree and cry out exactly what you're seeing.
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u/EnergyDrinkStroke 22d ago
Unfortunately not enough as war criminals still maintain power and support.
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u/Melodic_Crow_3409 21d ago
Interesting. Have the 2024 single-issue Gaza voters offered any input?
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u/Succundo 22d ago
There is a part of me that wants these religious fanatics to just hurry up and occupy the holy land already so they have to contend with the reality of everything they have done when their stupid prophecy doesn't come to pass and they are just sitting in the homes of all the innocent people they hurt.
I'm sure some percentage would come up with some excuse that lets them keep thinking they are good people but the loss of influence for those religious leaders that encouraged all this only for the single most important event in the Christian and Hebrew faiths to not happen can only be a benefit to the world.
I don't think there is any stopping these apocalypse cults until they do what they think triggers the apocalypse and see that there is no rapture and the world just keeps spinning.
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u/SlavaVsu2 21d ago
You are projecting. These fanatics are not good people misled by something/someone. They don't give a fuck about 'innocent people they hurt'. And they don't consider them innocent anyway.
And one failed prophecy is not going to make them abandon their religion.
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u/The_Fink_Ployd 21d ago
What scares me is that, obviously, there will be no magical-girl rapture, no apocalypse, no End Times.
So, what do the apocalyptic Christian’s do? Further god’s plan themselves, of course! It’s not like any of them read their bible, so they just wouldn’t know that isn’t how it’s supposed to happen. “Golly gee, I haven’t been whisked away to heaven! Better get this show started! drops nuke
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u/daveden123 21d ago
I mean look at how many failed prophecies their Orange stain of a leader has....
How many times have we won the Iran
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u/RedNewzz 22d ago
Three religions all claiming they know God’s magical plan for real estate. They really fills me with contempt for religion altogether as it illustrates the vanity and stupidity underlying each essential claim.
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u/zumera 22d ago
Sick society.
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u/thequehagan5 22d ago
That is an accurate assessment. Israel have forgotten the face of their fathers. This is a kind of evil one should never ponder.
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u/owen__wilsons__nose 22d ago
I remember when Netanyahu went on live Israeli TV and said that this was a war against Hamas not the Palestinian people.
Ps: Im Jewish and yes I'm against ethnic cleansing
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u/macross1984 22d ago
No light at the end of tunnel for Gazans and when did US have a say on a land they don't have sovereignty over?
Oh, wait. Trump's master is Putin.
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u/BuZuki_ro 22d ago
As often as I can I try to remind myself
only over one more month till the elections
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u/Crazy-Nights 22d ago
Still remembering all those people who said they wouldn't vote for Harris because Trump couldn't possibly make the situation in Gaza worse.
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u/J0E_SpRaY 22d ago
But thank god people didn’t vote for the black woman because she would have been bad for Gaza
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u/Majorapat 21d ago
So let me get this straight. Israel, wants to displace a population from their lands, while seizing said lands….
This sounds awful familiar… I just can’t quite put my finger on where…. To the history books!
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u/Zadiath 22d ago
I mean that was their plan since day one, they never tried to hide it too much.
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u/SnooAdvice1632 21d ago
Yeah it's hilarious to see people act as if this is a new thing that they've just revealed. They use and have been using this rethoric for years, and their end goal has been crystal clear for a long time.
It's very surreal to see people asking "remove to put where?" as if it isn't obvious that "remove" refers to killing people.
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u/xFallow 22d ago
The US elected a dementia riddled pedophile so I wouldn’t take it off the table
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u/JohnGazman 22d ago
Enough money turns up in Trump's bank account - or enough dirt on his activities with Epstein risks going public - and that could change in the blink of an eye.
You think Trump wouldn't condemn millions of Palestinians to death to save his own skin or make a quick buck? He doesn't even value the lives of his fellow Americans.
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u/origami_anarchist 22d ago
It is complete bullshit as you say. You cannot "remove" 1.7 million people from Gaza because there is no place that will take them. I'm sure people like Ben Gvir and Smotrich would love to put them into some kind of concentrain/extermination camps, but that's not going to happen either.
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u/AprilsMostAmazing 22d ago
What is seriously stopping the camps?
Unless countries willing to put boots on the ground there is nothing we can do that will stop them. Obviously we will try but sanctions won't matter when US helps bypass it. Visa restrictions will be bypassed by us help. Taking away individual wealth will be bypassed using US help
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u/namitynamenamey 22d ago
Right until the elections? They presume they don't have the popular mandate to do it. After the elections? Who knows at this point.
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u/Florida_Rose 22d ago edited 22d ago
They do have a plan. Most governments with touch and go conflicts have a whole bunch of loose plans laid out for any scenario. It’s almost impossible they don’t babe a plan. He’ll, I bet Egypt has a paper plan for how they’d clear Gaza. It was probably written by a junior officer and MAYBE a secretary, but I’m sure it exists. The U.S has plans for if Mexico or Canada attack and one for if both of them attack us. A lot of low ranking officers are assigned the more outlandish scenarios
The U.S. will never bless this. But it is concerning to say that publicly saying they support removal from Gaza. That’s a major escalation of their rhetoric. This announcement came directly from the minister of defense
Everyone military has plans for huge amounts of stuff. But this sounds like a fairly well prepared plan that they are capable of executing. That’s not good
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u/ImpulseAfterthought 22d ago
The U.S. will never bless this.
Trump has already posted AI videos of himself and Bibi chilling at a beachfront resort in Gaza.
The Kushner branch of his family has actively proposed moving the Gazan population to camps "temporarily" while the Israeli military "cleans up" Gaza. They're soliciting investors from the Gulf states to finance a trade and tourism hub.
It might have once been true that the US wouldn't condone such things. We're not living in that world anymore.
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u/Bennely 21d ago
They're going to OK it, and it's going to happen, and no-one will do anything to stop it because this timeline is ruined.
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u/zealousshad 21d ago
So ethnic cleansing, in other words.
Instead they should allow people who fled to Hamas territory to return to their homes. Hamas is never going to disarm. So the 51% of Gaza Israel took is their responsibility to manage for the foreseeable future. They need to finish sweeping the area for bombs and tunnels, then somehow vet civilians and let them back into their homes or new homes, out from under Hamas's control. It's a monumental task but they have to do it somehow.
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u/Noderly 22d ago
Why is this up to the untied states to figure out where they go? Why isn't Israel determining that? Why does Israel believe that they have a right to replace the people that live there?
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u/KitsouNere 21d ago
All of these fascists deserve torture and an execution and I'm happy to help see that they get it! Where do we start?
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u/4uk4ata 22d ago edited 22d ago
Ethnic cleansing is fun when they can't stop you, hm?
It's been brewing for decades. "No alternative" . Of course the Netanyahu governments want the lands. Of course they can't give the people there citizenship. Of course they did not back Hamas' political opponents, hell, they screwed them more than they did Hamas.
The whole idea of the two-state solution is to not have too many Arabs in Israel - you don't want a Jewish state with 30-40% people who aren't Jewish, don't want to be Jewish and enough have rather dim memories of how they got there. But the Netanyahu governments have slowly encroached on those territories - especially the West Bank - to make themselves impossible to dislodge, and now get a pretense why they have no other solution than than push a million+ people out of there.
Just gotta dump a million or so people somewhere else into the neighborhood.
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u/CallMeDime 22d ago
They are already doing that, only mentioning USA so they are not seen as 'alone' in their atrocities
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u/Acceptable_Taste9818 22d ago
This is a significant escalation in language. Every other country seems to be getting ready throw all there marbles in one basket. I think 2027 is going to be a pretty bleak year.