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Did Trump, Netanyahu announce permanent occupation of Gaza amidst mass starvation?
US President Donald Trump invited his friend Benjamin Netanyahu, current wanted by the International Criminal Court, to White House for a lavish dinner amidst mass starvation of two million people in Gaza. Netanyahu proudly announced the permanent occupation of Gaza as he presented a letter to Trump claiming to have recommended him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Rifat Jawaid highlights what he says is the irony of epic proportions.
This Should Be Front Page News - It Isn't Because It's Israel
Israel has proposed building a 'humanitarian city' on the ruins of Rafah - but its an idea straight out of 1930's Europe.
Israel has never lacked for euphemisms, but with its latest plan for Rafah, it may have outdone even itself. In what Defense Minister Israel Katz is calling a “humanitarian city,” Israel intends to corral the last surviving Palestinians into a sealed enclosure atop the rubble of their former homes, with no freedom of movement, no future, and no way out — unless, of course, they agree to leave Gaza forever.
In another context, this might be called mass internment. In Israel’s PR machine, it’s “relief.” The cruelty here isn’t just the policy — it’s the branding. What is being presented as a sanctuary is, in function and form, a concentration camp. Israel’s plan for Rafah is not a humanitarian response but the culmination of a campaign of ethnic cleansing — and arguably I would suggest this is a blueprint, perhaps, for how genocide will be carried out in the 21st Century
"Freedom to Choose"?: Peter Beinart Slams Trump-Netanyahu Plan for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump this week in Washington, D.C. Trump and Netanyahu are discussing Israel's war in Gaza, with Netanyahu suggesting that new plans for the forced relocation of refugees to other countries would give Palestinians the "freedom" to choose.
But what Palestinians actually want is "the freedom to return to the places from which their families were expelled," says Peter Beinart, editor-at-large at Jewish Currents and the author of "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza." "What kind of freedom is it when you have an area where most of the buildings and the hospitals and the schools and the bakeries and the agriculture have all been destroyed, where you have more child amputees than any other place on Earth?"
Israel Is Building A CONCENTRATION CAMP In Gaza
