Israel will do whatever it takes to get rid of the Palestinians. Whatever it takes could include even larger scale murder. From Declan Hayes at strategic-culture.su:
Trump set the wheels for further Israeli conquests in motion and there is little most of us outside of the notoriously risk averse Gulf States can or will do about it.
Although the European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine made some recent noises about how Europe will continue (?) to bat for Palestine against both Israel and POTUS Trump, we can safely ignore their protestations. The fact of the matter is, because Israel’s ethnic cleansing program is the only game in town, we have to factor all worthwhile analysis around their ongoing plans of reshaping that part of the world in their image.Before zooming in on Israel’s plans for Gaza, which Trump has recently rubber stamped, let’s look at what else is happening in that neck of the woods. Israel currently controls the skies over Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and especially Lebanon, whose citizens they insulted by flying over the funeral of former Hezbollah religious leader Hassan Nasrallah. Not only was that the same sort of two finger Israeli salute to the world that Netanyahu gave when he presented POTUS Trump with pagers to mock the victims of Israel’s recent murder campaign in Syria and Lebanon, but it shows that the Israelis don’t care what anyone anywhere thinks of them and their crimes.
Skip over to the old city of Jerusalem and the Israelis are cleansing it of Armenians, in particular but they are also inching the Greek Orthodox Church out with a blank cheque book in one hand and their pliable planning laws in the other. The Orthodox Church has been there since the time of Jesus and, as for the Armenians, as they were famously the first nation to convert to Christianity, unlike their Israeli persecutors, they are not Johnny Come Latelys to the Holy Land.
Not that the Israelis worry about squatters’ rights or any rights but their own. They have decided that God gave them the right to this land and that He threw in oodles of German and American military, logistical and financial aid to sweeten the deal and that is that. The fact that the native Palestinians can produce land title deeds from Ottoman times testifying they own the land is neither here nor there, as God, America and their own kangaroo courts have decreed otherwise.
When I stayed in a refugee camp in Bethlehem. I asked some kids shooting the breeze along the Wall what they did to pass the time; they said nothing, as there was nothing to do. When the young child of the family I stayed with saw a chicken in a cage in Hebron, he was delighted, like a child going to see a zoo would be. The ironic thing there is we passed zoos in Israeli compounds as we drove from Bethlehem to Hebron. Although those compounds are called settlements, they more resemble Manhattan than they do some lonely outpost and the idea of leaving Palestinian kids in to look at their monkeys, giraffes and kangaroos would not cross their minds in a million years as the Palestinians, even to the youngest settler children, are untermensch to be systematically abused as one pleases.
