Today Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted another of his English language videos about the conflict. This one said that those who want to create a Palestinian state are seeking “ethnic cleansing” of Jews from the occupied territories, and some enlightened countries are supporting this program.
Yet the Palestinian leadership actually demands a state with one precondition: No Jews. There’s a phrase for that, it’s called ethnic cleansing. And this demand is outrageous… Some otherwise enlightened countries even promote this outrage. Ask yourself this, would you accept ethnic cleansing in your state, a territory without Jews, without Hispanics, without blacks? Since when is bigotry a peace?… I think what makes peace impossible is intolerance of others.
No Jews. pic.twitter.com/QgGJoqjz9D
— PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) September 9, 2016
And the State Department was quick to slam the prime minister today, and it included descriptions of the actual ethnic cleansing, that of Palestinians. Shades of a new assertiveness by the Obama administration in its waning days?
MS [Elisabeth] TRUDEAU: So we have seen the Israeli prime minister’s video. We obviously strongly disagree with the characterization that those who oppose settlement activity or view it as an obstacle to peace are somehow calling for ethnic cleansing of Jews from the West Bank. We believe that using that type of terminology is inappropriate and unhelpful. Settlements are a final status issue that must be resolved in negotiations between the parties. We share the view of every past U.S. administration and the strong consensus of the international community that ongoing settlement activity is an obstacle to peace. We continue to call on both sides to demonstrate with actions and policies a genuine commitment to the two-state solution.
We have repeatedly expressed our strong concerns that trends on the ground continue to move in the opposite direction. Let’s be clear: The undisputed fact is that already this year, thousands of settlement units have been advanced for Israelis in the West Bank, illegal outposts and unauthorized settlement units have been retroactively legalized, more West Bank land has been seized for exclusive Israeli use, and there has been a dramatic escalation of demolitions resulting in over 700 Palestinian structures destroyed, displacing more than 1,000 Palestinians. As we’ve said many times before, this does raise real questions about Israel’s long-term intentions in the West Bank.
QUESTION: So you’re not a big fan of the video, I take it?
MS TRUDEAU: Correct.
QUESTION: So have you made your – not you personally, but has the Administration made its feelings clear to – other than your comments just now to the Israelis?
MS TRUDEAU: Yes. We are engaging in direct conversations with the Israeli Government on this.
QUESTION: And I mean, is there anything that you can do? I mean, he said this; he apparently believes it and it’s a pretty strong sentiment. You – even though disagree with it, I mean, what have you asked him to do? I mean, have you asked him to walk it back at all or —
MS TRUDEAU: I’m not going to get into our diplomatic discussions. What I would say is: unhelpful, it’s inappropriate. We’ll have our conversation with our Israeli allies and friends and we’ll see where that goes….
Notice the reference to Israeli house demolitions and displacement of 1000 Palestinians. That’s a start.
Thanks to Yakov Hirsch and Scott Roth, who tweeted: “@IsraeliPM are you a serious person? All evidence suggests you’re not.”
Netanyahu is as evil as Zionism. Only a demented despot would twist the truth the way he’s doing in that video. Sick.
Israel was created by ethnically cleansing 750,000 of the 1,237,000 non-Jewish Palestinian population in 1947-1949 (61% of total, or 85% of those living in the areas that became the state of Israel). Furthermore, about 380,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed BEFORE Israel declared its independence on 14 May 1948, and before any Arab armies intervened on behalf of the Palestinians. More than 500 Palestinian villages were depopulated and later destroyed to prevent the return of the Palestinian refugees.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/04/201249125656342960.html
As a result of the 1967 war, a further 320,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homes (35% of the population of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip).
Today, about 67% of Palestinian residents in Gaza, 30% of Palestinian residents in the West Bank/East Jerusalem, and 25% of Palestinian citizens of Israel are internally displaced refugees who were ethnically cleansed from areas that became the state of Israel.
I agree with Netanyahu — ethnic cleansing for peace is absurd. It’s about time to let the ethnically-cleansed return to their homes so that the healing can begin. Without healing, reconciliation and justice, there will never be peace.
Like the supporters of the Zionist Colonization enterprise who leave their pathetic justifications on MW, Netanyahu is a blatant and pathetic liar.
All Israelis, including non-Jews are prohibited from illegally settling in non-Israeli territories under Israeli occupation.
Israel doesn’t allow illegal settlers, why should Palestine?
I don’t think there is any prohibition on individual Jews living in the Palestinian territories. The late Ilan Halevi lived in Ramallah. A few Israeli journalists have also taken up residence there. That is not at all the same thing as tolerating closed communities of Jews that are themselves based on the ethnic cleansing of non-Jews, do not recognize the authority of the Palestinian government, and inflict all sorts of harm on their non-Jewish neighbors.
|| King Bibi: … Yet the Palestinian leadership actually demands a state with one precondition: No Jews. … ||
Liar. But I’m willing to retract that statement if he can prove that the Palestinians’ democratically-elected leaders has actually demanded that a Palestinian state must be Jew-free.
|| … Ask yourself this, would you accept ethnic cleansing in your state … ||
Question: Ask yourself this, would you accept ethnic cleansing in Israel?
Zio-supremacist answer: Absolutely!
|| … Since when is bigotry a peace? … ||
It takes a lot of balls or a complete lack of self-awareness for a Zio-supremacist bigot – the hateful and immoral leader of an intentionally and unapologetically oppressive, colonialist, (war) criminal and religion-supremacist state – to lecture anyone on bigotry.