{"id":2492,"date":"2023-11-24T17:17:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T07:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2023-11-24T17:17:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T07:17:59","slug":"israels-war-of-ethnic-cleansing-jamal-kanj-23-nov-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=2492","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s War of Ethnic Cleansing – Jamal Kanj – 23.Nov.23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the battle of his political life, Benjamin Netanyahu has nothing to lose. He could, however, gain vainglory and self-exaltation by murdering as many Palestinians as possible to satisfy the unquenchable vengeful Israeli culture. A crime catapult by Western leaders who rallied behind Netanyahu in the aftermath of the prisoners\u2019 revolt against the posts guarding the largest open-air prison on earth.<\/p>\n

The embrace of Netanyahu by Western leaders has granted the bona fide\u00a0pathological liar<\/a>\u00a0an unchecked authority to carpet-bomb civilian centers, target hospitals, and orchestrate the evacuation of northern Gaza in order to complete the ethnic cleansing of historical Palestine.<\/p>\n

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In a disturbing parallels to the 1948\u00a0Zionist led massacres<\/a>\u00a0that marked the initial ethnic cleansing of Palestine, Israeli forces committed further atrocities in northern Gaza this week. Two of which targeted thousands of\u00a0displaced refugees<\/a>\u00a0seeking protection at al-Fakhura UN school and another at an evacuation center in Tal al-Zataar neighborhood.<\/p>\n

The deliberate targeting of evacuation centers and hospitals where civilians sought shelter in northern Gaza is part of Israel\u2019s terror strategy to intensify the forceful evacuation of residents from their neighborhoods. Let\u2019s not forget that those who heeded Israeli orders and moved south found themselves facing the same danger. Dozens lost their lives\u00a0on the highways<\/a>, and others were\u00a0killed<\/a>\u00a0upon reaching the ostensibly \u201csafer\u201d shelters. Israel is ensuring that no place in all of Gaza remains safe, a troubling reality reflected in the fact that\u00a043% of civilians killed<\/a>\u00a0in the strip are in the so-called \u201csafer\u201d south.<\/p>\n

In the past 40 days, Gaza has endured an onslaught equivalent to more than three nuclear bombs. This surpasses by threefold the total number of\u00a0bombs dropped<\/a>\u00a0by the United States on Afghanistan throughout an entire year. Regrettably, U.S. taxpayers footed the bill for both wars. While acknowledging civilian casualties in Afghanistan, the U.S. did not primarily pursue indiscriminate bombing of civilian populations as its primary war objective. For Israel, however, the main goal is to remove the civilians or as Israel\u2019s Minister for Agriculture and former head of Shin Bet,\u00a0Avi Dichter, articulated<\/a>\u00a0this policy on Israeli TV, \u201cWe are now actually rolling out the Gaza Nakba.\u201d The Nakba, is the term Palestinians use for the ethnic cleansing from Palestine in 1948.<\/p>\n

\u201cRolling out\u201d the Nakba, or human-made catastrophe can neither be achieved without inducing flight and instill fear among the civilian population, nor without cover up and Israeli exception to international law. Western media for example, almost always, qualify its coverage on the number of killed Palestinian civilians with a statement like, we know Israel has warned civilians to move south. In effect, normalizing, and, to an extent, mitigating the responsibility of the Israeli army for civilian casualties. In fact, this could mark the first war where the burden of avoiding loss of life is placed on noncombatants rather than the military conducting the war.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State\u00a0Anthony Blinken<\/a>\u00a0declares from New Delhi that \u201cFar too many Palestinians have been killed. Far too many have suffered these past weeks.\u201d Yet, the American government continues to reject, or unable to force Israel to submit to a ceasefire. This glaring cognitive dissonance in America\u2019s inconsistency between its public pronouncement expressing specious concerns for the loss of life, yet it calls the war\u2014that murdered \u201cfar too many\u201d\u2014 as \u201cself-defense.\u201d At the same time, it provides the material and nonmaterial means to carry out further killing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s beyond hypocrisy when Biden and Western leaders call on Israel to\u00a0minimize<\/em><\/a>\u00a0the killing of civilians. The passive plea to minimize murdering children, rather than unequivocally ending it, sends a clear message that empowers Israel to persist in its murder with impunity. Does Secretary Blinken know the acceptable magic number that would satisfy Israel\u2019s Talmudic rabbinical vengeance? If\u00a013,000<\/a>\u00a0civilians (75% women and children) are not \u201ctoo many\u201d enough, what should be the threshold to reach that limit? We know as of this writing it has to be more than 5,500 murdered children.<\/p>\n

This begs the obvious question: does the same consideration extend to the Palestinian side? What is the fair number of Israeli civilians that can be killed? Was the number exceeded on October 7th<\/sup>? Or is it a case where only the lives of the \u201cless than equal\u201d humans are expendable?<\/p>\n

Besides the civilian population, and \u201csafe\u201d UN shelters, Israel continued to target hospitals. The first was the massacre outside the\u00a0Baptist al Ahli Hospital<\/a>\u00a0murdering and injuring more than 500, which was then exculpated by Biden who owned the Israeli fabricated narrative. This week it is al Shifa, the largest medical complex in the whole of Gaza.<\/p>\n

Medical centers are traditionally regarded as havens for treating the sick, alleviating pain, and preserving life. International law, specifically the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, Article 18, and its Additional Protocol I of 1977, in Articles 12 and 19, provide explicit protections for civilian hospitals. Despite this, Israel has turned Gaza hospitals into the largest morgues, and their yards the site of massacres and\u00a0mass graves<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A friend shared a harrowing account of his brother, a doctor at al Shifa hospital. According to him, doctors were compelled to manage death by attrition rather than focusing on healing. They faced the agonizing task of playing God and deciding who should be next to have their life support turned off and who should be saved. They ran out of fuel to keep the power generators running, and ambulances operational. Israel destroyed the photovoltaic (solar) panels that generated little electricity. The hospital ran out of life saving medications to treat bacteria in simple wounds or open cuts. They lacked the anesthesia to apply when they had to amputate a limb to stop the spread of an infection, they had no medication to treat. Doctors are forced into having to choose between maintaining neonatal incubators under controlled conditions of temperature, oxygen, humidity, and light, or allocating the same energy to save older patients.<\/p>\n

Transforming places of healing into morgues seems inadequate for Israel, as hospitals emerge as the last bastions hindering the execution of its \u201cfinal solution<\/a>\u201d for the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza. The systematic dismantling of civilian infrastructures, encompassing power, electricity, water and sewer treatment, telecommunication, and others, is considered indispensable to make life unlivable. The objective is evident: to establish conditions so intolerable that civilians feel compelled to abandon their homes, thereby obstructing any prospect of their return.<\/p>\n

To achieve this, Israel conducted a disinformation media campaign over several weeks, falsely showing a computer-generated rendering of a\u00a0Hamas military command and control center<\/a>\u00a0under al Shifa Hospital. In an effort to debunk these baseless allegations, the Palestinian Ministry of Health invited international organizations to conduct independent investigations and verify the facts. Unfortunately, this appeal was disregarded, allowing Israel to act on its uncontested lies and launch an attack, ultimately entering the hospital on November 14.<\/p>\n

Upon entering the hospital, Israel orchestrated a staged television production depicting Israeli soldiers delivering supplies. However, unbeknownst to viewers, the showcased items were primarily logistical goods intended for the Israeli army stationed in the complex. The hospital has no need for new equipment; rather, it urgently needed fuel and power to sustain its existing operations, which Israel did not provide.<\/p>\n

The public relations charade became evident when, instead of ensuring the hospital\u2019s functionality through the purported \u201cnew Israeli supply,\u201d the army issued orders for the\u00a0evacuation of the sick<\/a>, including the removal of\u00a031 premature infants<\/a>\u00a0from incubators, displacing dialysis patients, and leaving the elevators inoperative. Meanwhile, it continued to hold more than 100 patient hostages as human shields inside the hospital.<\/p>\n

According to my friend, the Israeli army occupied the first floor and prevented medical personnel from accessing life-saving medical equipment on the lower floors. Failing to show the alleged military \u201ccommand center\u201d for Hamas, Israel resorted to showcasing AK-47 rifles purportedly found in the hospital. It\u2019s worth noting that, even if the guns weren\u2019t planted by Israeli soldiers, they could have been part of the hospital\u2019s security measures.<\/p>\n

When Israel couldn\u2019t substantiate its claims of the supposed \u201ccommand center,\u201d Israeli Hasbara shifted its narrative. Netanyahu then asserted that the facility was used to hold Israelis detained by Hamas. While there may be some truth to this, the hospital likely treated Israeli captives\u2014a moral responsibility to provide them with care according to international law.<\/p>\n

Despite the Israeli army\u2019s failure to produce evidence, both the US Pentagon Department and President Biden\u00a0reiterated<\/a>\u00a0the false Israeli claim, accusing\u00a0Hamas of committing war crimes<\/a>\u00a0by \u201chaving their headquarters, their military, hidden under a hospital.\u201d Mind you that just two days earlier, President Joe Biden said\u00a0hospitals in Gaza \u201cmust be protected<\/a>,\u201d and cautioned for \u201cless intrusive action\u201d during the Israeli war on Gaza.<\/p>\n

However, when Israel disregarded the president\u2019s advice and seized control of the largest hospital, he backpedaled to cover up for his inability to prevent Israeli \u201cintrusive action.\u201d In an attempt to save face and deflect attention from his failure, Biden embraced the now debunked Israeli narrative about a supposed headquarters. By submitting to America\u2019s largest welfare state, Biden, the leader of the so-called \u201cfree world,\u201d is being diminished to a mere caricature, mindlessly regurgitating Israeli disinformation.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to highlight that as the Israeli army advanced towards the hospital, there was no resistance or any sign of military fortifications in the vicinity of the hospital. This belies Israeli and American claims that the hospital or civilians were used as a human shield. Nevertheless, upon Israel taking control of the area, it promptly positioned tanks and soldiers within the compound, effectively using patients and medical staff as human shield against potential counterattacks.<\/p>\n

The only remaining full-service hospital in north Gaza, the\u00a0Indonesian Hospital<\/a>\u00a0is next on Israeli targets to be put out of commission. As of the early Monday morning (November 20), the hospital was under Israeli military attack with tanks surrounding the facility. A repeat of al Shifa hospital before it was occupied and vacated by Israeli soldiers.<\/p>\n

Soon following the \u201cconquering\u201d of what seems to be Israel\u2019s primary military objective, and as the hospital was effectively put out of service, Bezalel Smotrich, a senior minister in the Israeli government, came with a suggestion for a \u201cvoluntary emigration of Gaza<\/a>\u00a0(Palestinians) Arabs to countries around the world.\u201d The bedeviled plan was packaged as a charitable solution to address \u201cthe residents of Gaza and the entire region after 75 years of refugees, poverty, and danger.\u201d He omitted, however, any mention of who caused the suffering, and failed to acknowledge that the 75-year mark signifies the number of years since Israel was imposed upon Palestine.<\/p>\n

The descendant of a Ukrainian\u00a0Khazar Jewish converts<\/a>, whose surname is derived from the\u00a0Ukrainian town of Smotrych<\/a>, chooses not to refer to Palestinians, who graciously welcomed his refugee parents in Palestine, by their Palestinian national identity but rather colloquially as \u201cArabs.\u201d Also, last march he spoke in Paris, behind a banner depicting a map of \u201cgreater Israel<\/a>,\u201d encompassing all of historical Palestine, with borders extending into Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. In his address at a memorial organized by France Jewish Agency, he called Palestinians as a \u201cfictitious\u201d people. It\u2019s noteworthy that in France, characterizing Israel as a fictitious state would be considered a hate crime. Paradoxically, under the same law, it seems acceptable for an Israeli minister to deny the existence of the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n

In addition, during a debate in the Israeli Knesset in October 2021, Smotrich addressed a descendant of Palestinians who remained in their homeland when Israel was forced on them in 1948, \u201cYou\u2019re here by mistake, it\u2019s a mistake that\u00a0Ben-Gurion didn\u2019t finish the job<\/a>\u00a0and didn\u2019t throw you out in 1948.\u201d<\/p>\n

With that in mind, the Israel war government is taking the obvious steps in its current war on Gaza to fix Ben Gurion\u2019s \u201cmistake.\u201d The first was to ethnically cleanse north of Gaza under the euphemism of evacuation to the \u201csafer\u201d south.\u00a0 In the subsequent phase, the focus shifted south where Israel dropped leaflets urging Palestinians who evacuated to the south to move to a new designated \u201csafe\u201d area on the farthest southwest corner of Gaza.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly this area is on the border with Egypt, suggesting that Sinai could be the ultimate intended destination for Gazans. Addressing the new military orders, Mark Regev, an aide to Israeli Prime Minister,\u00a0explained to MSNBC<\/a>, \u201cBecause the western areas are closer to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, humanitarian aid could be brought in \u201cas quickly as possible,\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s astonishing how Israeli officials unabashedly cloak their dubious intentions in ostensibly altruistic terms. They suggest evacuating people from their homes because they want them to be closer to aid at the border of another country instead of allowing aid to enter Gaza. Similarly, Smotrich proposed to solve the 75 years of refugees not by returning them back to their original homes, but by ethnically cleansing them as distant refugees in far-off places. What started as a covert ethnic cleansing and mass dispossession of Palestinians in 1948 has evolved into an overt Israeli policy in 2023. The challenge, however, lies in the West\u2019s reluctance to acknowledge Israeli actions for what they are, and as openly voiced by Israeli leaders.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s war on Gaza, withal, is not about October 7 as Western mainstream media would suggest. It\u2019s about the 75-year-old war to empty Palestine of its indigenous population. Israel is systematically carrying out its plan under the leadership of a psychopath intoxicated on American weapon technology, taxpayers\u2019 money to fund his wars, and enabled by prevailing Western double standards.<\/p>\n

Jamal Kanj is the author of\u00a0Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America<\/em>, and other books. He writes frequently on Arab world issues for various national and international commentaries.<\/p>\n

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