The pogroms are working – the transfer is already happening
JVL Introduction
Layan Mahameed introduces B’Tselem’s new report with the words “What’s happening now in the West Bank is forcible transfer”.
The ethno-nationalist version of the Zionist dream has become the only version of Zionism on offer: a Greater Israel with as much land and as few Palestinians as possible.
Partially realised during the nakba of 1947-48 where over 700,000 Palestinians left what became the state of Israel, “the demographic threat” returned in 1967 with the acquisition of many millions of additional Palestinians under Israel’s control.
The Oslo process offered one possible solution – confining most Palestinians under occupation in their own Bantustan statelet while green-line Israel remained the “Jewish state”.
But as the far right increasingly wielded power on the ground, this solution, barely taken seriously by the governments that propounded it, was abandoned in practice. Greater Israel is the goal, and the route map to it is ethnic cleansing.
B’Tselem describes the process in action.
This article was originally published by B'Tselem Newsletter on Thu 21 Sep 2023. Read the original here.
The pogroms are working - the transfer is already happening
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For the triumph of evil it is only necessary that ‘good’ wo/men (governments in western countries in this case) do nothing.
This is also called ethnic cleansing. Forcible transfer / ethnic cleansing is a Crime Against Humanity. We need to emphasise this at every opportunity. Say so!
The Nakba never came to an end, it is carrying on 70+ years since it started, in between, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled Palestine or been murdered by Israelis and there is no sign of it relenting, in fact, it is getting worse as it is now using drones to destroy Palestinian Property and murdering civilians in the process. What does the rest of the World do, it watches in and does nothing. Though there are people across the World campaigning against Israel, their Politicians are afraid to stand up and challenge, apart from a few Irish politicians that do condemn Israel’s behaviour towards the Palestinians.