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The MKs made the call in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal
Originally published by AntiWar
Two members of the Israeli Knesset wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal arguing for Western countries to take in refugees from Gaza as Israeli officials continue to call for Palestinians to be pushed out of the enclave.
The op-ed was written by Danny Danon, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, and Ram Ben-Barak, a member of the opposition party Yesh Atid, which is led by former Prime Minister Yair Lapid.
“One idea is for countries around the world to accept limited numbers of Gazan families who have expressed a desire to relocate,” the lawmakers wrote. They listed examples of conflicts where Europe and the US accepted refugees, including the wars in former Yugoslavia and Syria.
“Looking to these examples, countries around the world should offer a haven for Gaza residents who seek relocation,” they wrote. Danon and Ben-Barak concluded the op-ed by saying the “international community” has a “moral imperative” to accept refugees from Gaza as Israel’s war has killed over 11,000 Palestinians, including over 4,500 children, and has internally displaced about 1.5 million people out of Gaza’s approximately 2.3 million residents.
The op-ed drew praise from Bezalel Smotrich, an extremist settler who leads the Religious Zionist party and is Israel’s finance minister. “I welcome the initiative of members of Knesset Ram Ben-Barak and Danny Danon on the voluntary immigration of Gaza Arabs to the countries of the world. This is the right humanitarian solution for the residents of Gaza and the entire region,” he said, according to The Palestine Chronicle.
Smotrich said that other countries accepting refugees from Gaza is the “only solution that will bring to an end the suffering and pain of Jews and Arabs alike.” He added that the “state of Israel will no longer be able to put up with the existence of an independent entity in Gaza.”
The Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Ministry criticized Smotrich’s call for a “voluntary migration” of Palestinians, calling it “part of Israel’s colonial, racist plan.”
A leaked document from Israel’s Intelligence Ministry revealed that the Netanyahu government is considering a plan to push all the Palestinians in Gaza into Egypt, but Cairo and other Arab nations are strongly opposed to the proposal.
much easier for israelis to go back to wherever the f they came from.
send them to hell.settler skum
give the palestinians part of the sinai peninsula – world countries can pay egypt for the land
why would “world countries” pay exactly? is the jewish state not rich enough to pay for its own atrocities?
i’d move them to camp cities in the west bank
the imported european jews and their descendants can go back to the european countries they came from and let the palestinians and jews that were already there and lived side by side in peace can return too their homes in palestine. the zionists don’t want to be called apartheid so they want too remove everyone but jews from palestine.
we don’t want the stinkin shysterssend them to new york
they will never live together in peace.after the zionist inspired making the arabs will hate the zionist occupiers until the end of time there is noroom for forgiveness nor should they the holocaust the zionist visited upon them should never be forgotten nor forgiven the barbaric settlers have earned their place in hell for ever more
it is time for the world to ethnic cleanse the rotten jew
web don’t fuckin need to import any more nazi fags.
yeah that guy can go fuk himself too