Ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza?

by Philip Weiss on January 4, 2009 · 11 comments

The mysterious "Badger" over at Missing Links reports today on "The next step in Gaza: Forced evacuations of residential districts." From this morning's New York Times:

The Israeli Army also dropped thousands of leaflets into some residential districts warning inhabitants to evacuate their homes. Because of “the activity of terrorist groups,” the leaflets said in Arabic, the army “is obliged to respond quickly and work from inside your residential area.”

Earlier this year in March, Missing Links shared media reports of an Israeli plan to remove "tens of thousands of Palestinians from the northern Gaza Strip":

The televised report cited high-level security sources as saying Barak intends to plan for the removal of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the northern Gaza Strip, namely from the region that the resistance uses for the launch of these rockets, and to move them toward Gaza City and to confine them there. The Israeli reporter added that Barak is turning to legal advisers in the Defence Ministry, in order to obtain legal authorization for the removal of the Palestinian civilians. Barak is also asking Professor David Friedmann, minister of Israeli Affairs [Justice Minister], who supports toughening of penalties on Gaza to end the launching of rockets, in order to obtain his authorization to begin execution of the plan.

The reporter said that once [or if] the plan becomes operational, it would start immediately: In the first stage there would be a drop of leaflets advising residents to leave their homes, in addition to special radio announcements in Arabic directed to the residents, and in the event residents didn't obey the warnings, the occupation army would begin bombing the inhabited areas, in order to compel them to leave their homes and go to Gaza City.

Has this plan begun?

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{ 11 comments }

1 OtherAlan January 4, 2009 at 3:58 pm
2 Eva Smagacz January 4, 2009 at 4:07 pm

This sort of treatment of civilian children helps in ethnic cleansing:

3 Sword Of Gideonthepoint January 4, 2009 at 4:15 pm

Great pic! Now we're cookin'!

4 S Kneedler January 4, 2009 at 4:15 pm

Yes, it is ethnic cleansing, and Gilad Atzmon has said the plan extends to "extermination." He's also finally said aloud the obvious: PALESTINIANS NOT ISRAELIS have "no partner for peace," "Clearly, there is no partner for peace on the Israel side."

http://mwcnews.net/content/view/27656/26/

–another great site for truth rather than "relig-ethnically correct" lies.

Btw, isn't it time we all started discussing the archeological work that questions ancient myths?

See for example,

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/966952.html
Prof. Shlomo Sand, author of "Matai ve'ech humtza ha'am hayehudi?" ("When and How the Jewish People Was Invented?"; Resling, in Hebrew)
"No population remains pure over a period of thousands of years. But the chances that the Palestinians are descendants of the ancient Judaic people are much greater than the chances that you or I are its descendents."

And
"False Testament:
Archaeology Refutes the Bible's Claim to History"

By Daniel Lazare
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2002/03/0079105

5 Jim Haygood January 4, 2009 at 4:24 pm

'The army “is obliged to respond quickly and work from inside your residential area.” '

In this context, the verb 'work' is a nasty little euphemism, with overtones of contempt.

Telling the victims of an eviction that we have to 'work' from your abandoned home is a way of twisting the knife.

I'm waiting for the IDF to add the punch line —

"Arbeit macht frei"

6 Eurosabra January 4, 2009 at 4:55 pm

The word is "lifoiel", "to operate (militarily)", DUH.

7 Jim Haygood January 4, 2009 at 7:13 pm

You're tellin' me they dropped Hebrew-language leaflets in Gaza?

Actually, it wouldn't surprise me.

8 Glenn Condell January 4, 2009 at 7:28 pm

What's Hebrew for 'lebensraum'?

9 Ethiopian from Sderot January 4, 2009 at 7:29 pm

Is it true that Zionists let many Jews perish in the WWII?

How about the story about Rebbe who miracously escaped Warsaw Ghetto and left the rest of tribe to suffer the consequences? Is that true as well?

Mr. Witty, please help.

p.s. Eurosabra, I was listening to Mozart tonight, can you recommend any other composer as a soundtrack for outgoing carnage?

10 chimpsky January 4, 2009 at 8:05 pm
11 nomadichealer January 5, 2009 at 5:13 am

israel has to get its history straytend out prior to 1948 there was no israel and there the wans that keep invading palastinian teritory the country of palastina is devidet in two literely its the jews that are the terrorist not hammas hammas are freedom fihgters as my grand perands were in 1940-1945
i'm dutch and sick and tired of basikly having
my ancestors being called terorist

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