Israel wants to get rid of all the Palestinians. From Jonathan Cook at antiwar.com:
As the dusting off of Israel’s E1 Plan emphasises, the intended fate of Palestinians in the West Bank is ultimately no different from the fate of Palestinians in Gaza – unless we act
There is a revealing back story to Israel’s so-called E1 Plan, a massive settlement project that includes the building of many thousands of new homes. The plan’s goal is to irreversibly sever the illegally annexed eastern, Palestinian side of Jerusalem from the West Bank, and then break the illegally occupied West Bank into two separate territorial cantons, destroying any hope of future Palestinian statehood.
That back story utterly undermines Israel’s “self-defence” narrative in Gaza.
The media are playing up the role of Bezalel Smotrich, the self-declared fascist minister in Netanyahu’s government, in the E1 Plan – as though it somehow reflects his ugly and malign influence. That is pure misdirection.
In fact, this plan has been around since the 1990s and was first formulated by the supposedly “peacenik” Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. It was intended as a parallel move to the “peace accords” of that time negotiated in Oslo.
The Oslo accords had incited huge divisions in Israeli society because it was assumed that they would cede back to the Palestinians significant pieces of territory Israel was illegally occupying and colonising in the West Bank. Domestic opposition ultimately led to Rabin’s assassination.
In Rabin’s eyes, E1 overrode those objections. It would protect the then largest of the illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Maale Adumim, incorporating it into the eastern side of Jerusalem, which Israel had already annexed and was furiously settling with Jews while displacing Palestinian communities there.
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