Israel actively pushing Palestinians to leave Gaza

Israel is actively pushing Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip, asking a number of European and Middle Eastern countries to absorb them and offering to arrange their flights if they agree to emigrate.

The policy was disclosed by a senior official accompanying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a diplomatic visit to Ukraine this week.

The unnamed official told reporters yesterday that Israel is in contact with third countries to see if they would be willing to absorb Palestinians from the besieged enclave, adding that “Israel is even willing to arrange transportation for them, at least to one of the airports in the Negev and arrange for them to travel out of the country”.

Israel’s National Security Council has been spearheading the initiative, with Netanyahu’s blessing, for about a year, the Times of Israel reported, citing the official.

The Israeli daily added that the program has also been discussed several times in Israel’s security cabinet.

The official conceded that, thus far, Israel has been unable to find any country willing to cooperate with its initiative, despite speaking to a number of Middle Eastern and European states.

He also claimed that thousands of Gazans are leaving of their own volition, pointing to 35,000 Palestinians who left the Strip in 2018. “That’s a pretty high number,” the official stated, even claiming that those who remain “are being held hostage in Gaza”.

The official, however, failed to mention Israel’s now 12-year-old siege of the Strip – which has devastated its infrastructure, economy, health sector and Palestinians’ livelihoods – or its three assaults on Gaza in the past decade. The UN has predicted that the Strip will be “unliveable” by 2020, calling the fate of Gaza’s some 1.9 million Palestinians into question.

Commentators have slammed the revelation, with Joint List Knesset Member (MK) Yousef Jabareen writing on Twitter: “The country that should welcome Palestinians from Gaza is Israel which, along with its obligation to remove the blockade on Gaza, should respect UN resolutions regarding Palestinian refugees as a part of a just and peaceful solution to the conflict.”

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The policy bears striking resemblance to an idea floated by some of Israel’s most extreme right-wing parties, most notably Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power). Last month Otzma launched its campaign for the country’s 17 September election by calling for the expulsion of all Palestinians, both from the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) and Palestinian citizens of Israel.

The party’s leader, Michael Ben Ari, told audiences: “We want to resettle our enemies in their countries […] we’ll give them a bottle of mineral water and even a sandwich. We’ll find them countries of origin they can go to.”

Though the National Security Council’s policy makes no pretence about sending Palestinians to their “countries of origin”, that it seeks to “encourage” Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip has been seen as evidence of the mainstreaming of this right-wing, anti-Palestinian rhetoric by the Israeli establishment.

Leader Confirms Seyyed Nasrollah’s Prediction of Prayers in Bayt al-Moqaddas

By: S. Nawabzadeh

For the moment Global Arrogance is giving final touches to its Conspiracy of the Century on the assumption that this will change forever the culture and identity of Palestine.

The Zionists who are in occupation of this historical heartland of Islam since 1948 after being illegally settled in it by the British between the two World Wars, as part of the plot of western imperialism to change the texture and demography of Palestine, presume they are here to stay, especially since godfather Donald Trump has blessed them with the city of Bayt al-Moqaddas.

The rootless Arab regimes, with no history, geography, culture, or identity of their own in the fiefdoms carved out for them by colonial Britain, and their sharing of the hatred of Islamic Iran with their newfound Israeli cousins, think that having endorsed the devilish designs of Jared Kushner, the Jewish son-in-law of Trump, they have managed to kill the chronic issue of Palestine through empty promises of billions of dollars, and in the process ensured their own precarious survival.

Does this mean the ‘Zionisation’ of Palestine is almost complete and soon the sacred Dome of the Rock and its spiritual atmosphere might be replaced by an ugly temple of the non-Israelite and non-Semitic Khazars of pagan origin who masquerade as ‘Jews’ to the detriment of the orthodox adherents of Judaism? 

No definitely not. Those dreaming of such absurdities, despite their elaborate plans, will soon be entrapped in never-ending nightmares that drag them to the netherworld.

As the Leader of the Islamic Revolution prophesied in Tehran on Monday, July 22, during an important meeting with a delegation from Gaza representing Hamas (the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement): 

"Victory is based on irrefutable Divine Promise, and achieved through Jihad in all its aspects – political, cultural, intellectual, economic and military…To us, Seyyed Hassan Nasrollah’s recent remarks "Insha Allah (God Willing), I will perform prayers at Bayt al-Moqaddas”, is an absolutely achievable aspiration.”

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, while receiving the letter of Ismail Haniyeh, the Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau, from his deputy Saleh al-Arouri, was referring to the prediction made earlier this month in Beirut by Secretary of Lebanon’s legendry anti-terrorist movement, the Hezbollah, on the timing of the liberation of Palestine: "It is all in Allah’s Hand, but based on logic I have high hope that we will pray in al-Qods.”

In spite of these clear indicators of the fast approaching end of illegal Israel, as the real Jews also desire, those doubting the words of either the Leader of the Islamic Revolution or the Master of Resistance (in the Levant), are living in a fool’s paradise. 

The Godless Trump and his team of thugs, including the avowedly anti-Christ and profoundly pro-Zionist Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, and John Bolton, along with their policies of economic terrorism and military threats against Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, Hashd ash-Sha’bi (of Iraq) and all other forces of Resistance, are merely a passing phase in the glorious history of Islam and the Muslim people – if not a tribulation or an ordeal to test their degree of faith and prudence.

Divine Providence has already decreed the end of Israel and triumph of the Muslim people of Palestine, whose extraordinary grit was lauded by Ayatollah Khamenei, who reiterating Iran’s commitment to the cause of Islam’s former qibla (prayer direction), warned of the Conspiracy of the Century to destroy Palestinian identity, and emphasized collective efforts to defeat this plot. 

Ismail Haniyeh’s letter to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution and his declaration of solidarity with Iran against the sinister designs of the US at a time when the Palestinian Resistance is in possession of precision missiles capable of piercing the so-called iron dome of the enemy all over the occupied land, is proof of the fact that the Conspiracy of the Century is doomed to fail.

No matter, whether Washington and its stooges in Tel Aviv and the reactionary Arab capitals, like it or not, in the words of Haniyeh, the days are approaching for "the liberation of Palestine from Zionist tyranny, and all fighters of God, and the Muslim Ummah will perform prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque.”

The Second Phase of the Islamic Revolution, as the Leader described the start of the 41st year in his New Year address on March 20, is all poised to shatter the much inflated might of Global Arrogance, and carry the message of freedom from the perimeters of liberated Palestine to the emerging nations in the New World in what is currently the United States of America, but will not exist anymore as people fed up with corruption and tyranny determine the independence of Texas, California, Florida and other currently oppressed lands, where the Hispanics are considered second class citizens and the people of colour scoffed as animals by the white supremacists in the White House.