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It’s A Complete Lie To Say Gaza Can Have Peace If Hamas Surrenders – Caitlin Johnstone (caitlinjohnstone.com.au)
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5034935

Anyone who says Gaza will be at peace if Hamas just surrenders and releases the hostages is either knowingly sowing disinformation or ignorantly sowing misinformation. We need to make sure everyone’s clear on this so nobody can say they didn’t know after history unpacks this one.

Netanyahu has made it completely and unambiguously clear that even if Hamas surrendered today and released every single hostage, Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan will still need to be implemented as a precondition for ending the mass slaughter. To be absolutely 100 percent clear, Trump’s plan for Gaza is that “all” Palestinians be removed on a “permanent” basis, never allowed to return.

There is no way to permanently remove all Palestinians from a Palestinian territory without material coercion — meaning more mass scale violence and siege warfare. There is also no way to argue that this mass displacement would be voluntary even without further violence, since Israel has been deliberately and systematically making the Gaza Strip uninhabitable by destroying civilian infrastructure. Forcing them to choose between starvation in an uninhabitable wasteland or submit to ethnic cleansing is exactly the same as forcing them out at gunpoint.

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[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago

Of course it is.

Hamas isn't a cause - it's an excuse.

Israel is and long has been determined to conquer everything from the river to the sea, and to kill however many Palestinians it takes to do it. And if they didn't have Hamas as an excuse, they'd just find (or manufacture) another.