Donald Trump’s proposal to empty Gaza of its people is an unprecedented disdain of basic morality and international norms.
But for Benjamin Netanyahu — who is the likely initiator of the plan alongside Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — the controversial scope of the plan is irrelevant as long as it lays out a path toward Gaza’s ethnic cleansing.
Circling the idea of ethnic cleansing — if unrealisable at the moment — would make discussing it permissible. That would lead to normalising it as implementable in the future.
Israeli rightists see the post-October 7 2023 atmosphere and the concomitant regional rollercoaster as a historical moment to turn the Zionist expansionist vision into reality.
Judaising Gaza and the West Bank — while crucial to fulfilling the Zionist dream — are a stepping stone toward the so-called ‘Greater Israel’, which extends well beyond Israel’s ‘1948 borders’. ….more