In February, US President Donald Trump declared that “The US will take over the Gaza Strip” and “level out” the remaining buildings and transfer the Palestinian population to “other countries.” At the time, both US and international media dismissed Trump’s plan as an “outlandish” scheme with no prospect of realization.
The Israeli government approached Trump’s plan with deadly seriousness. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Trump’s “bold vision” for an ethnically cleansed Gaza. “We’re working on it,” Trump said during a meeting in Washington last month.
On Monday, the Netanyahu government effectively announced the beginning of the final stage of ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The plan includes a full military occupation of the entire Gaza Strip and the mass internment of the population in concentration camps under armed guard, as a prelude to forced marches through the desert or deportation by sea.
These concentration camps will be staffed by private US security contractors, with the Israel Defense Forces overseeing the distribution of starvation rations. According to a report this week by Reuters, the United States and Israel are actively discussing the formation of a “transitional government” headed by a US official to administer Gaza.
Echoing the “final solution,” the Nazi term for the genocide of Europe’s Jews, Netanyahu declared, “It’s time to launch the concluding moves.” The next day, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich explained the meaning of the Israeli government’s plan:
Within a year, … Gaza will be entirely destroyed, civilians will be sent to … the south to a humanitarian zone … and from there they will start to leave in great numbers to third countries.
The mechanism for the forcible displacement of the Palestinian people will be mass starvation. As National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir made clear, “No electricity, and no other aid should be allowed—neither by the [Israeli military] nor by civil society.”
On March 2, Israel imposed a total blockade on all food, water and electricity entering the Gaza Strip. As a result, the majority of Gaza’s community kitchens have been forced to shut down due to a lack of supplies, and cases of acute malnutrition have surged by more than 80 percent. Harrowing images have circulated of emaciated, starving children—victims of a famine that is entirely man-made.
Israel of all countries turning into a full-blown fascist state complete with its own holocaust would be really funny in an ironic way if it wasn’t so deeply sad and tragic.
Good job everyone who advocated for 3rd parties or abstained because this ghoul was ‘the same’ as Biden or Harris. I hope you’re sleeping well that razing Gaza is the same as not doing that.
Great work. Perhaps you’ll get a discount on the new trump branded resorts they’ll build on that land, which we fucking warned you he wanted to do years ago.
I’m done trying to warn people. You won’t fucking listen so I’m wasting my breath, and these ‘I told you so’s just taste too bitter.
Wake me when you’re ruffling the ashes of your own countrymen from your hair (or don’t, because I’ll be seasoning your egg salad with what’s left of my bones).
e: MItHC reference, and since I’m both disabled and queer, I’m going down with this ship
So many of the “people” saying that were Russian trolls, I can’t imagine actually buying into it though… like if your ideology aligns with a Russian troll farm how do you even continue to function? Like, reassess your life ffs
“Don’t you dare compare us to the nazis!! That’s plain antisemitism! You’re a nazi!” I’m sick and fucking tired of this rhetoric. Grow some balls Netanyahu and admit you’re a fucking nazi. The world already knows it.
His dad wrote a book which flirted with suggesting that the Jews who didn’t escape the Holocaust were inferior.
There is some deeply fucked up internal racism in some Jewish communities.
Bibi himself:
It’s a fucked up way to insinuate that Hitler wouldn’t have suggested the Holocaust if not for Muslims. Which, no fuck that. I know I could Google “Poland pogram” and find some medieval account of mass graves or something entirely motivated by the fucking blood libel. Poisoning the wells (bubonic plague) or making matzo balls with the blood of gentiles.
It’s like the outrage that any criticism of Israel summons. That it’s antisemitic to say “yeah no this is pretty fucked up.” As if the fucking state of Israel under war criminal Bibi is identified with Judaism itself.
One of the things that shocks me to this day - I played a National Security Defense Game at GenCon as Bibi. I basically did what he has done. I played it as he did. I could not fucking win - everyone was like yah no you are a mega corrupt criminal. I was courting Trump, spreading conspiracy theories. I got booted the fuck out of office.
I retroactively win lol.
He literally can’t be a Nazi. Being Anti-Semitic is a core pillar of Nazism.
He is a fascist. Being a fascist is in no way better than Nazism. Calling him a fascist carries the same weight as calling him a Nazi and it is correct, while calling him a Nazi is a impossibility.
Stop using buzzwords. Use the actual terminology.
He literally can’t be a Nazi. Being Anti-Semitic is a core pillar of Nazism.
Israel is the most anti-semitic country in existence right now, so if you think that is a “core pillar” of Nazism (it isn’t), he ticks that box. But more importantly any group can absolutely be Nazis, they don’t have to subscribe to Hitler’s definition of who the chosen people are.
We are the baddies. We are allowing our governments to do it. We are the German citizens who for whatever reason let Nazi Germany become a murder machine.
Today we are quiet so that we don’t get targeted. How long until we have to pledge our support so that we don’t get targeted? How long until we have to contribute so we don’t get targeted?
And here you have it how Germany turned like this during WWII. Propaganda, and dehumanization of the adversaries. As you can see this is still possible even now.
Among voters, it was more than half. If you didn’t vote, you don’t count.
Ok, so does this kick off WW3 or are other nations just going to roll over and allow this to happen?
How the hell is this even a plausible timeline we’re living in?
It’s always been like this. We just have the Internet now so we can learn about it happening.
No, these are unprecedented times and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying for their own ulterior purposes
The only thing new is it’s the US doing it from across the world. This kind of thing has happened many times in history. It has happened in Africa and Asia, the Americas. There are probably elements that are unprecedented, but the bigger story is not.
