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Showing Original Post only (View all)'100-200,000, Not Two Million': Israel's Finance Minister Envisions Depopulated Gaza [View all]
Further down in the article an MK member claims it would be a "humanitarian act to displace over 1 million people.Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich joined a growing list of senior lawmakers who expressed support for large-scale transfer of Gaza's civilian population as a solution to Israel's post-war security concerns
In an interview to army radio, the far-right minister said that his "demand" was for the Gaza Strip to stop being a "hotbed where two million people grow up on hatred and aspire to destroy the State of Israel."
Without outlining his preferred method, Smotrich then suggested that the removal of around 90 percent of Gaza's residents would help achieve his goal. "If there are 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs in Gaza and not two million, the whole discourse about the day after will be different," he said.
The Religious Zionism party chairman then noted that in order to regain security, Israel must control the Gaza Strip, and that "in order to control the territory militarily over time, you must also have civilian presence there."
Smotrich's comments are the latest in a growing list of troubling remarks by Israeli lawmakers to seemingly support expelling Gazans en masse out of the Strip in order to ensure Israel's security after the war.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-12-31/ty-article/100-200-000-not-two-million-israels-finance-minister-envisions-depopulated-gaza/0000018c-bfe8-d6c4-ab8d-fffc0b910000
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'100-200,000, Not Two Million': Israel's Finance Minister Envisions Depopulated Gaza [View all]
Ping Tung
Apr 5
OP
Not shut him up, remove him from the highest levels of the Israeli Government.
Big Blue Marble
Apr 5
#17
For the life of me, I don't know how or why we are continuing to support this regime.
Chakaconcarne
Apr 5
#11
What Smotrich is saying out loud is Israel's plan to decimate the Palestinian population.
Lonestarblue
Apr 5
#13
No great surprise there. I'd be surprised if that wasn't the ultimate aim. n/t
Crunchy Frog
Apr 5
#24
Translated: They are displacing a million with resources for a hundred thousand.
Chainfire
Apr 5
#28