The first half of this article raises some interesting points, but when it moves on to, "So tell me, how would moving Palestinians to Jordan and destabilizing it and potentially the entire Levant be good for Israel or the United States?", I lose interest. Where do the Palestinians fit in all of a sudden? But then, when we get, "Netanyahu also instructed the Bush administration to invade and occupy Iraq" I lose interest altogether. Juan Cole should do better than this 'tail wags dog' bs.
Comradely, John On Wed, 29 Jan 2025, 09:45 Dennis Brasky via groups.io, <dmozart1756= [email protected]> wrote: > First, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet proposed > <https://www.juancole.com/2023/12/netanyahu-ethnically-palestinians.html> > ethnically > cleansing Gaza of its Palestinian inhabitants in the fall of 2023, > following many years of such calls from the Israeli equivalent of neo-Nazis. > > Then last year Joe Biden and Antony Blinken, dissatisfied with merely > enabling an ongoing Israeli genocide, picked up > <https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-white-house-accused-endorsing-displacement> > the > ethnic cleansing project from the Israeli extreme Right and ran with it, > pressing it on Egypt’s strongman Abdelfattah al-Sisi, who firmly told them > to drop dead. > > Then on Sunday President Trump said, “I’d like Egypt to take people, and > I’d like Jordan to take people. You’re talking about probably a million and > a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing. It is literally a > demolition site right now, almost everything is demolished and people are > dying there.” He said they could be moved “temporarily or could be long > term.” > > Not that Trump or anyone else in Washington, D.C., now cares, but the > Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, article 49, reads: “Individual or mass > forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from > occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of > any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their > motive.” The same language was adopted into the Rome Statute that came into > force in 2002 and underpins the International Criminal Court, so for Trump > to follow through on his threat (that’s what it was) would open him to > indictment as a war criminal. Sanctioning the judges won’t stop such an > indictment, and indeed, would form the basis for a further grave charge > against him. > > The thing that I have never understood is why the Israeli far right even > thinks this ethnic cleansing project would be a solution to anything. > > *https://www.juancole.com/2025/01/dumping-palestinians-destabilize.html > <https://www.juancole.com/2025/01/dumping-palestinians-destabilize.html>* > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34901): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34901 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/110866666/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
