Kicking the Palestinians out of Gaza to neighboring Arab states has always been the plan; it didn’t just emerge out of nowhere when Trump became president, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
IDF armored bulldozer near Jabalia, Gaza, November 2023. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)
By Caitlin Johnstone
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I still can’t get over how absurd it is how everyone’s acting like the plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza is some new idea that Donald Trump just came up with. “Wait, so you’re saying we make the Palestinians go away and replace them with Jews?? What bold, innovative thinking! By golly, that’s just crazy enough to work!”
This notion that removing all Palestinians from Gaza is a fresh new idea that was conceived of by Trump is one of the most ridiculous narratives we’re seeing pushed by the mainstream political/media class today. Israeli think tanks and intelligence services were pushing the plan to move Gaza’s inhabitants to Egypt within days of the Oct. 7 attack. The Biden administration tried unsuccessfully to get Cairo to facilitate this agenda.
Kicking the Palestinians out of Gaza to neighboring Arab states has always been the plan; it didn’t just emerge out of nowhere when Trump became president. And yet you’ll see everyone on both sides of the mainstream partisan divide furiously pushing this narrative that this is all Trump’s idea, whether they support or oppose the ethnic cleansing agenda.
If they support it they talk it up as some brilliant outside-the-box innovation nobody’s ever thought of before, and if they oppose it they completely erase from history the fact that it was being advanced under the Biden administration in the early days of the onslaught.
I just saw Alan Dershowitz babbling about how we should all “thank Donald Trump for coming up with the first new idea in many, many years about how to solve this problem.” But it isn’t a new idea, and Trump didn’t come up with it.
Driving Palestinians out of their historic homeland has been the Zionist vision for the region since before Israel was even established as a state, and all of its actions from 1948 on have born that out. This has always been about ending the existence of Palestinians in Palestine.
And that’s all it has ever been about. Not Oct. 7. Not hostages. Not fighting terrorism. Not self-defense. This is about driving Palestinians out of their homeland so that their territory can eventually be fully and officially absorbed by Israel.
Meanwhile, Israeli sources are telling Haaretz that Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to sabotage the ceasefire in Gaza to keep it from progressing to its second phase after the 42 days of its first phase are up. It’s entirely possible we’ll see things slide right back into the same nightmare we were looking at during the Biden administration in a few weeks.
Trump’s Crimes as Cover for Biden’s
Democrats are as happy as a pig in shit right now. Suddenly they get to pretend all the unfathomable evils their president inflicted upon our world never happened, just because there’s a different president doing bad things who people are feeling big feels about.
They wanted to lose. They’re overjoyed that they don’t have to be the face on the US empire’s depravity anymore, and that it’s no longer their job to make excuses for it.
They’re getting everything they want out of the present arrangement, because liberals don’t actually care about fixing problems and making the world a better place, they only care about feeling good about themselves.
Their politics is never actually about anything other than their feelings, and Biden was making their feelings feel bad. Trump lets them feel smug and vindicated and correct. He also lets them feel outraged and indignant, and they enjoy that too.
But it’s all bullshit. No matter what Trump says or does or how he and his goons make people’s feelings feel, it will still be a historical fact that Biden and his handlers spent 15 months facilitating a campaign of extermination and demolition in Gaza which could not have happened without US backing.
It will still be a historical fact that Biden and his handlers pushed Ukraine into an unwinnable war that the US and its allies knowingly provoked in order to advance geostrategic grand chessboard agendas, sabotaging potential peace negotiations and threatening the world with nuclear annihilation along the way.
It will still be a historical fact that Biden kept in place many of the ugly policies put in place during the first Trump administration and actively expanded and added to them.
It’s important to point this out because Democrats are posturing as opponents of tyranny and abuse right now, and they aren’t.
They are allies of tyranny and abuse, who LARP as righteous defenders of truth and justice whenever the other tyrannical and abusive party happens to be in power.
Their behavior during the Trump administration shows you how they wish to be perceived, but their behavior during the Biden administration showed you who they really are.
Pager Madness
A member of the Zionist ultranationalist group Betar recorded himself handing pro-Palestinian academic Norman Finkelstein a pager the other day, a menacing reference to Israel’s terrorist attack in Lebanon in which beepers loaded with explosives were detonated simultaneously around the nation.
Israel supporters can’t get enough of this pager schtick. They think it’s the most clever thing in the world. See the joke is that maybe the pager is explosive and you’ll be murdered for disagreeing with their political beliefs. Very subtle stuff. Really makes you think.
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Hey Vera, Not just Arabs.Who set this thing up ? There is only one interest:
SELF INTEREST.
The whole Human race practices Back stabbing Cork screwing, Double dealing.
As for Brethern who needs em. Like that old Sicilian saying ” l dont need protection from my enemies,but God help me protect me from my friends”
And did Finkelstein cram the “pager” down the smug creep’s throat?
The new ideas in use I believe are the classic “stand down” combined with the “Hannibal Option” techniques of violent agitprop. False flags abound and more are on the way.
The front page of the world’s publications and internet sites is the new front line of battle. Hearts and minds must be manipulated in order to win. Attacks must always be “defensive.” This is broadcast to the world’s people 24/7/365.
Basically been going on since Truman. And even before that.
No doubt about it, U.$. Presidents’, #42-#47, legacy is decades of deception, destruction, death, i.e., genocide, coronavirus, Glass-Stegall legislation, perpetual wars, poverty, racism, etc., etc., etc. POTUS’s, 42’s-46’s, “legacy” is NOTHING akin to the “Golden Age.”
The “Golden Age,” was ‘a period of great peace, prosperity, and happiness.’ Sounds absopkhnlutely wonderful!!! The reality is we live in the “Nuclear Age,” nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, living under the threat of the POTUS & Military officials “going” nuclear, i.e., Trump-Netanyahu steamrolling everything from the river to the sea, relocating Palestinians, permanently.
FYI: Regardless, former Presidents’, 42’s-46’s, crimes against humanity, NONE were ejected w/o a “Golden Parachute.” For example, Joe “Lunch Bucket” Biden “is in Line for a $413,000 U$D’s, Dual Pension Payout, upon Departing the Presidency.”*
Regardless of the net worth of former presidents, “Jimmy (R.I.P.) Carter: $10 million, Bill Clinton: $120 million, George W. Bush: $50 million, Barack Obama: $70 million, Donald Trump: $2 billion, Joe Biden: $9 million, they’re entitled to receive a “pot of gold” + Freedom From Accountability, for anything, past, present, future, they deem is a threat to their $ecurity.”
Basically, Joe “Patriot Act” Biden “got” Five (5) decades, on The Hill, $enate (36 Years), Vice President (8 Years) & President (4 Years).
The grift, “Double Dipping!” Joe$ph R. Biden, the political corpse, posed as POTUS, masquerades as human; AND, * “$tands to benefit significantly from both systems; potentially receiving a combined payout starting at around $413,000” U$D’s. “There are no limits within each pension program that would curtail the taxpayer-funded benefit afforded to the elite few who have accrued substantial pension benefits in both the legislative and executive branches.”
Imo, D.O.G.E., oughta do the forensics, i.e., “re-examine this loophole that allows for double-dipping in two different yet generous pension programs.”
* hxxps://www.ntu.org/foundation/detail/joe-biden-in-line-for-a-413000-dual-pension-payout-upon-departing-the-presidency
Concluding, “We, the Taxpayers, are being f/swindled!!! By our own f/Presidents!!!
I saw an article, (can’t remember where) that said that Netanyahu gave Trump a gold plated pager like the ones used in Lebanon. How evil is that?
“How evil is that?”
Evil as Binny and the POTUS? Trump did accept it right!
Shocking , shocking… the atrocities the Empire commits to effect oil extraction … !
(D) is for Death.
This goes much further back than Oct 7th, although of course the propaganda machines want everyone to think that everything in West Asia began on Oct 7th. The propaganda construct is the same as the constant claims that American history began on Sept 11, “which changed everything.”
Netanyahu’s faction and allies have long talked about ethnically cleansing all Arabs out of Israel. They had a word for it, in Orwellian style, it was, iirc, “transfer.” They would just “transfer” all the Arabs out of Israel. No blood, no fuss ,a nice inoffensive word. Although, of course many could hear this as a 2nd Nakba, a repeat of 1948 when they also just ‘transferred’ away the Arabs into refugee camps in places like Gaza. In American-Israeli mythology, 1948 was also bloodless as the Arabs just happily left their homes.
This is from reading publications more radical than CN decades ago, so maybe I remember the wrong Orwellian word? Maybe it was something other than “transfer?” But, I definitely remember reports about people from Netanyahu’s faction who were openly pushing such plans at least as far back as the Cheney regime.
This had been going on for decades if I remember correctly. This has always been in Netanyahu’s circle of friends, and thus always quietly supported by America and its billions of dollars.
Caitlin, your observations of the Democrats “remorse” is right on target. They are hopelessly mired in a moral morass of their own design. We have been subjected to a propaganda scheme that we are all responsible for the Jewish Holocaust in WWII. That has been used to leverage World support for the Zionist aspirations to replace all the Palestinians by Jews….only. A perfect model of apartheid and genocide that will not end with the extermination of the Palestinians. Witness the mass applause of Netanyahu by both parties of our American Congress! How insulting to our sense of American Independence was that?!!! Wrong has become right. We have lost our way because we have lost our sense of being human.
The Democratic Party should remind itself that it is first and foremost the party of the People. “All the People”…which includes the Palestinians (when our international policy is the issue). We should not support genocide or apartheid however it is presented by the Zionist media. We should never support “a Two State Solution”. That is pure nonsense that only gives credence to the Zionist system of apartheid. Historically, it has been dangled in front of the confused liberal goyim consciousness….to allow time for the Zionist to relentlessly pursue their land grabbing policies.
A sustainable solution in Palestine can only be a Single State where Jews and Palestinians live as equal citizens with respect for each other. If that’s not possible……..it is the Jews that should leave.
Great comments! The Democrats sold out to big money a long time ago. An especially negative influence has been the Clintonite subset which follows their corrosive ideology. They ran 3 losing presidential campaigns, 2 for Queen Hillary, and one very weird trick of running Harris. They also stabbed Bernie in the back, who is questionable, but much better than the other two. Harris wasn’t a capable public speaker at all. That was comical if it were not so horrendous. They could have run Tulsi Gabbard when they had the chance but they attacked her too. She did very well when grilled by the Congress crooks cartel.
A Single State solution was on the UN table in 1947.
My very close relative, Mr. Vladimir Simic (Yugoslavia) presented to the UNSCOP his 12,000 word proposal for one state (federal) solution, considering that both Arabs and Jews had an historical association with the land, and that the right of both peoples to independence was a result of the national awareness of both. He declared that equal civil, political and religious rights for all the inhabitants of Palestine was the basic prerequisite if a democratic state were to be set up.
The proposal received only three votes out of 11.
Fascinating! I like to read the entire proposal. Who rejected it? Who supported it? Why did it disappeared? Sounds like a concept that should be revived and included amongst all current proposals for a sustainable solution.
If I were able to write something such as this I might have. I’m not nearly as capable, talented and driven using the written word as you. However I too recognize BS and treachery when I see and hear it.
This is how I have interpreted the observations you land I likely have recorded over the years. Projection on the ‘other’ , controlling the false narrative by exploiting their own lies. Typical fair from those who thrive on deceit and surprise attacks to exist.
The attack on our institutions are no differt.
This pager/cell phone caper revealed how heartless and irresponsible this bunch is.
That said I have something to share here. This text is the same word for word as the email I sent my Senator last evening.
“Personally I believe the current activities by Musk / Trump(?) are an assault on the U.S. Government, an assault with will disrupt the peoples business and operation of the Government. My view is this must be interpreted as a distinct threat to National Security.
The purpose / mission of the Homeland Security’s concept of Continuity of Government is a collaborative effort to ensure the government can continue to perform the essential functions required to support government during emergencies.
Homeland security – DHS Directives System – Directive Number: 008-03 – Revision Number: 01, Issued 12-11-2018
Continuity of Government is a coordinated effort within each of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches to ensure governance and essential functions continue to be performed before, during and after an emergency.
In fact I am amazed by the omission or unrecognized threats by POTUS Trump to eliminate FEMA, the organization charged with the responsibility ensure COG is enacted and administered. ”
I have to ask, “What the hell is going on here!”
The Arab nations have ALWAYS betrayed (ie stabbed in the back) Palestinians. So much for their brethren. What a hypocritical world we inhabit.
Amen, Caitlin.
“Their behavior during the Trump administration shows you how they (Democrats) wish to be perceived, but their behavior during the Biden administration showed you who they really are.” A really spot on observation. No matter how bad Trump may be, it does not make them (the Dems) even one whit better. They just want to get back to the “golden status quo” as quickly as possible so they can go back to sleep.
Also, IMO, worth repeating that when Biden was asked if he thought bombing Yemen would stop them disrupting shipping, he replied no, but he bombed anyway.
In the mid-20th century, particularly around the time of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the subsequent establishment of the State of Israel, there were instances where Palestinian populations were displaced from their homes, leading to significant demographic shifts in the region. These events have been the subject of extensive historical research and debate, with various perspectives on the causes and implications of such displacements.
AI comment?
The concept of altering the demographic composition of Gaza has been a topic of discussion among various political figures and groups long before the tenure of former U.S. President Donald Trump. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with its deep-rooted historical complexities, has seen numerous proposals and actions aimed at addressing security concerns, territorial disputes, and demographic challenges.
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