Netanyahu to Congo, Jordan, Egypt, Chad, Rwanda: ‘Who will rid me of these pesky Palestinians?’

Netanyahu to Congo, Jordan, Egypt, Chad, Rwanda: ‘Who will rid me of these pesky Palestinians?’

After 97 days of his genocidal ethnic cleansing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu has only wiped out 1%. It’s actually a tad higher as thousands of innocents lay dead under the rubble of over a hundred thousand buildings destroyed by Israeli and US bombs.

At that rate it will take him 9,700 days to complete the clearing of Gaza for Greater Israel.

What to do?

Netanyahu hatched a plan to speed up Palestinian removal there. Simple: push them into other poor countries seeking financial incentives. An Israeli official told the Times of Israel "The business is very complex. We must promote this channel but be very careful of the reactions in the world and also of the fear that it will be interpreted as a transfer and not a voluntary migration. That's why we work with close legal advice."

Close legal advice or not, once Israel, with Uncle Sam’s 2,000 bombs, blew away 85% of Gaza’s housing, charges of genocidal ethnic cleansing began zeroing in on Israel from around the world. United Nations' high commissioner for human rights, Volker Turk, disturbed at Israel’s proposal, said those 2,000,000 displaced Palestinians “have the right to return to their homes. International law bans the forcible transfer of protected persons within or deportation from occupied territory.”

So far, Egypt, Jordan, Chad, Congo and Rwanda have all given thumbs down to Netanyahu’ ethnic cleansing solution.

Yesterday, facing the opening of International Court of Justice hearings on South Africa’s charge of Israeli genocide, and withering condemnation worldwide to his preposterous position, Netanyahu blinked. He told a worldwide audience “I want to make a few points absolutely clear: Israel has no intention of permanently occupying Gaza or displacing its civilian population.”

Bunk. What’s absolutely clear is Netanyahu has promoted the opposite since October. Israeli Knesset and Likud Party member Danny Danon, advised The Times of Israel recently “The prime minister told me two weeks ago in this room that it’s a good idea.”

A truly good idea is for Netanyahu to end his genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza before the wheels of international justice put him the dock to face the justice he deserves.

Environmental champion, Congressman Casten, ignores Israel’s destruction of Gaza environment

 Environmental champion, Congressman Casten, ignores Israel’s destruction of Gaza environment

Congressman Sean Casten (IL 6) lists climate change/environment as his first issue for voters to view and his website. He closes by stating he’s “Vice-Chair of the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), a group of more than fifty Members of Congress who are committed to protecting our environment.”

By flooding Gaza’s tunnels with seawater, Israel is polluting Gaza’s groundwater supplies with salt brine, destabilizing the ground sufficiently to collapse and kill Palestinian civilians who escaped Israeli and US bombs. Agricultural fields are transformed into salinized pits of mud. Damage inflicted upon Gaza’s aquifers has greatly diminished Gaza’s clean drinking water. Over a fifth of Gaza’s agricultural land has disappeared since the Israeli offensive. This fits neatly into Israel’s stated goal of making Gaza “unlivable.”

To save Gaza’s environment as well as its 2,300,000 Palestinians, Congressman Casten should join his 64 congressional colleagues in calling for immediate, full and complete ceasefire in Gaza. If he does not, he should remove environment from his congressional resume and resign as Vice-Chair of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition.

Ignoring; indeed enabling the destruction of Gaza’s environment is a disqualifier for Casten to tout his environmental credentials.