Meir Bin-Shabbat-Bibi confidante and former National Security Council Chief of Staff, National Security Advisor, and Head of Misgav Think Tank allows he public release of plan (now removed) for forcible transfer of Gazans to Egypt. His staffer attached the proposal to a Tweet stating:

“There is no doubt that in order for this plan [of forcible transfer of Gazans to Egypt] to be realized, many conditions must exist concurrently. Currently, these conditions are optimal, and it is unclear when another such an opportunity will arise, if ever.”

-Israeli Zionist & Security think tank, Misgav INSZL tweet - 17 October 2023

Clear Intent to Commit Genocide-Nakba 2.0

Bibi's Lesson from 9/11: Total Success. "He got EXACTLY what he wanted; Destruction of Iraq with US doing Bibi's bidding free-of-charge. US paid the price.

Feature Guest | MBS Discusses his plans for Genocide (see Contents below)

I. BIBI THINKS CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT ARE STUPID...GULLIBLE.

Duplicity & Hypocrisy | Hobbesian-Schmitt Cynical Deception & Contempt for Humanity

Terrorist Finance Minister Smotrich - Hamas is an Asset, PA is a Liability

Israel's Finance Minister openly explains why "Hamas is an ASSET" to #Israel's gov while "the Palestinian Authority is a burden"! | 2015

Netanyahu caught bragging in leaked video from 2001 - I foiled peace process; I created 'security buffers.' U.S. so easily manipulated. Their kind of stupid.

II. The Day After Revealed -

Gazans (2.2 million terrorists) all Dead; West Bank Annexed; Regional War

Up Next: Bomb Iran (with U.S. doing the work just like Iraq 2.0), War to Claim more territory with Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Etc b/c scared little Israelis need to land grab to cure their covetous, homicidal, narcissitic sociopathic existential Nazi crises!

Israel is of Course Blameless; to Say Otherwise is "Anti-Semitic" and results in your Cancellation b/c Zio-Cons are Pathetic Pussies

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BASIC PROBLEM: ZIONISTS DON'T BELIEVE IN BORDERS

The Objective has always been FORCED removal or extermination of indigenous population, Especially for Uber-Ultra-Zionists

Zionism aspired for the Jews to assert their “folk personality” to become one of what Europeans then called “civilized nations.” The distinction between civilized nations and others contained the essence of colonialism. In his manifesto, The Jewish State (1896), Herzl wrote, “We [the Jewish state in Palestine] should there form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism.” That concept of salvation as domination ultimately proved to be yet another false messiah. ---Barnett R. Rubin. False Messiahs, How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism. The Boston Review. 4 Jan 2024

III. BULLIED & DUPED REAGAN into Believing Refugee Camps were Full of Terrorists (trope)--

FALSE STATEMENT...Result--MASSACRE...U.S. Troops Deployed & Killed...

ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTER ARIEL SHARON DIRECTED the MASSACRE OF AROUND 3,000 CIVILIANS in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in September 1982. He had ZERO remorse. See TULPPP Zionist Terrorism

Beirut Deja Vu All Over Again-U.S. Troops Killed, Massacres, Etc.

“We are partially responsible” because “we took the Israelis and the Lebanese at their word.” He summoned Ambassador Arens. “When you take military control over a city, you’re responsible for what happens,” he told him. “Now we have a massacre.” - Secretary of State, George Shultz (see article attached) - A Preventable Massacre, NYT 012sep16 NYT Opinion

While Israel’s role in the [1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre has been closely examined, America’s actions have never been fully understood. This summer, at the Israel State Archives, I found recently declassified documents that chronicle key conversations between American and Israeli officials before and during the 1982 massacre.

The verbatim transcripts reveal that the Israelis misled American diplomats about events in Beirut and bullied them into accepting the spurious claim that thousands of “terrorists” were in the camps. Most troubling, when the United States was in a position to exert strong diplomatic pressure on Israel that could have ended the atrocities, it failed to do so.

As a result, Phalange militiamen were able to murder Palestinian civilians, whom America had pledged to protect just weeks earlier. - A Preventable Massacre, NYT 2012sep16 NYT Opinion

What was the Sabra and Shatila massacre? | Al Jazeera | Video

Nixon | No Srategic Value to the United States

So why loan, donate, risk U.S. lives for Israel? The Moral Commitment to the "Holocaust" and because its a "Democracy" (but it's an Apartheid

Truman on Israel

Chastises Eisenhower, says Nasser should be run into Sudan

Video 3min 10sec | Library version

Truman's Frustration with Pushy, Greedy, Self-Serving, Narcissistic U.S. Zionist Leaders | Realtor in the Sky (Vidal)

Prefatory Remark RE Truman's scathing Letter about Self-Absorbed Greedy covetous Velociraptors impersonating Jews. As we can see how the Zionist Master Race is exerting pressure on College Campuses through totalitarian means of state security, it's not hard to imagine Truman's frustration with a group who felt entitled to colonize all of Palestine (and then some) with no regard for indigenous inhabitants. Zionist velociraptors have bullied and lied to U.S. Presidents; threatened Jewish politicians refusing to support Apartheid Occupation; had Jewish students and faculty arrested across the country for support human rights for all people in Palestine (not just Jews)...Just be a person who claims Jewish identity cries anti-semitic doesn't mean their definition of anti-semitism has any merit---often, they're just shilling for the terrorist Bibi regime or saying they give up an argument and throw down their Semitic "Spade" Trump card. These kinds of people are velociraptors pretending to speak for all Jews---they don't.

President Harry Truman | Diary Entry on the Question of Palestine, Creating a Jewish "homeland"

'6:00 P.M. Monday July 21, 1947.

Had ten minutes conversation with Henry Morgenthau about Jewish ship in Palistine [sic]. Told him I would talk to Gen[eral George] Marshall about it.''

He'd no business, whatever to call me.

The Jews have no sense of proportion, nor do they have any judgement on world affairs.

Henry brought a thousand Jews to New York on a supposedly temporary basis and they stayed.''

''When the country went backward -- and Republican in the election of 1946, this incident loomed large on the D[isplaced] P[ersons] program.''

''The Jews, I find are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as DP as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog.''

''Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.''

Look at the Congress attitude on D.P. – and they all come from DPs.

Sources <https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/truman-diary-entry-disparages-jews> from <https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/david-niles-harry-s-truman>

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Memo RE David Niles (jewish and committed zionist) to Harry S. Truman, May 12, 1947 (saying Arabs backed HItler, as did Ledi not mentioned)

Niles and Israel | Niles was a committed Zionist and was important in providing access to the White House for American Zionists.[6]

Niles' efforts on behalf of Jewish statehood earned him the support and praise of such figures as Chaim Weizmann and Moshe Sharett. Upon the establishment of the State of Israel and the opening of an Israeli embassy in Washington, Niles became close with Ambassador Eliahu Eilat as well as his successor Abba Eban. Niles was active in American Jewish communal politics. Along with his involvement in the United Jewish Appeal, he also maintained friendships with influential Jewish leaders such as Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Abram L. Sachar, along with Jewish supreme court justices Louis D. Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter. From <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Niles>

Gore Vidal | FOREWORD TO THE 1st EDITION, Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of 3,000 Years,

by Gore Vidal

Vidal, Gore, and ISRAEL SHAHAK. “FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION.” Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years, 2nd ed., Pluto Press, 2008, pp. vi–viii. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183q63d.3. Accessed 16 May 2024.

$2 million for TRUMAN to Whistle for Zionism!

Sometime in the late 1950s, that world-class gossip and occasional historian, John F. Kennedy, told me how, in 1948, Harry S.Truman had been pretty much abandoned by everyone when he came to run for president. Then an American Zionist brought him two million dollars in cash, in a suitcase, aboard his whistle-stop campaign train. ‘That’s why our recognition of Israel was rushed through so fast.’ As neither Jack nor I was an antisemite

(unlike his father and my grandfather) we took this to be just another funny story about Truman and the serene corruption of American politics.

Unfortunately, the hurried recognition of Israel as a state has resulted in forty-five years of murderous confusion, and the destruction of what Zionist fellow travellers thought would be a pluralistic state – home to its native population of Muslims,Christians and Jews, as well as a future home to peaceful European and American Jewish immigrants, even the ones who affected to believe that the great realtor in the sky had given them, in perpetuity, the lands of Judea and Samaria. Since many of the immigrants were good socialists in Europe, we assumed that they would not allow the new state to become a theocracy, and that the native Palestinians could live with them as equals.

This was not meant to be. I shall not rehearse the wars and alarms of that unhappy region. But I will say that the hasty invention of Israel has poisoned the political and intellectual life of the USA, Israel’s unlikely patron.

Unlikely, because no other minority in American history has ever hijacked so much money from the American taxpayers in order to invest in a ‘homeland’. It is as if the American taxpayer had been obliged to support the Pope in his reconquest of the Papal States simply because one third of our people are Roman Catholic. Had this been attempted, there would have been a great uproar and Congress would have said no. But a religious minority of less than two per cent has bought or intimidated seventy senators (the necessary two thirds to overcome an unlikely presidential veto) while enjoying support of the media. In a sense, I rather admire the way that the Israel lobby has gone about its business of seeing that billions of dollars, year after year, go to make Israel a ‘bulwark against communism’. Actually, neither the USSR nor communism was ever much of a presence in the region. What America did manage to do was to turn the once friendly Arab world against us. Meanwhile, the misinformation about what is going on in the Middle East has got even greater and the principal victim of these gaudy lies – the American taxpayer to one side – is American Jewry, as it is constantly bullied by such professional terrorists as Begin and Shamir.

Worse, with a few honourable exceptions, Jewish-American intellectuals abandoned liberalism for a series of demented alliances with the Christian

(anti-semitic) right and with the Pentagon–industrial complex. In 1985 one of them blithely wrote that when Jews arrived on the American scene they ‘found liberal opinion and liberal politicians more congenial in their attitudes, more sensitive to Jewish concerns’ but now it is in the Jewish interest to ally with the Protestant fundamentalists because, after all, ‘is there any point in Jews hanging on, dogmatically, hypocritically, to their opinions of yesteryear?’ At this point the American left split and those of us who criticised our onetime Jewish allies for misguided opportunism, were promptly rewarded with the ritual epithet ‘antisemite’ or ‘self-hating Jew’.

Link to book

https://pearl-hifi.com/11_Spirited_Growth/01_Books/Jewish_History_Jewish_Religion__The_Weight_of_3K_Years_3rd_Edn.pdf

FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION

(pp. vi-viii)

Gore Vidal

https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183q63d.3

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt183q63d.3

From <https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt183q63d>

2003jul10 Harry Truman's Forgotten Diary - 1947 Writings Offer Fresh Insight on the President

By Rebecca Dana and Peter Carlson | July 10, 2003 | WASHINGTONPOST

From <https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/07/11/harry-trumans-forgotten-diary/97827dbd-e24f-49f6-a800-2341a0688060/>

"The Jews, I find are very, very selfish," President Harry S. Truman wrote in a 1947 diary that was recently discovered on the shelves of the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., and released by the National Archives yesterday.

Written sporadically during a turbulent year of Truman's presidency, the diary contains about 5,500 words on topics ranging from the death of his mother to comic banter with a British aristocrat. But the most surprising comments were Truman's remarks on Jews, written on July 21, 1947, after the president had a conversation with Henry Morgenthau, the Jewish former treasury secretary. Morgenthau called to talk about a Jewish ship in Palestine -- possibly the Exodus, the legendary ship carrying 4,500 Jewish refugees who were refused entry into Palestine by the British, then rulers of that land.

"He'd no business, whatever to call me," Truman wrote. "The Jews have no sense of proportion nor do they have any judgement [sic] on world affairs. Henry brought a thousand Jews to New York on a supposedly temporary basis and they stayed."

Truman then went into a rant about Jews: "The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as D[isplaced] P[ersons] as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes."

Yesterday, those comments startled scholars because Truman is known as a president who acted to help Jews in postwar Europe and who supported recognition of Israel in 1948, when his State Department opposed it.

"My reaction is: Wow! It did surprise me because of what I know about Truman's record," says Sara J. Bloomfield, director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. "Truman's sympathy for the plight of Jews was very apparent."

But Truman's comments were, Bloomfield says, "typical of a sort of cultural anti-Semitism that was common at that time in all parts of American society. This was an acceptable way to talk."

"Truman was often critical, sometimes hypercritical, of Jews in his diary entries and in his correspondences, but this doesn't make him an anti-Semite," says John Lewis Gaddis, a professor of history at Yale University and a prominent Cold War scholar. "Anyone who played the role he did in creating the state of Israel can hardly be regarded in that way."

Throughout his presidency, which lasted from 1945 to 1953, Truman was a prolific but sporadic diarist, jotting down his thoughts in diary books and on loose pieces of paper. This newly discovered diary appeared in a book titled "The Real Estate Board of New York, Inc., Diary and Manual 1947." The book, which begins with 160 printed pages of information about the Real Estate Board, was donated to the Truman Library in 1965, seven years before his death, and has sat on shelves there ever since. Apparently its tedious title scared scholars away and nobody noticed Truman's handwritten comments in the diary section in the back of the book until recently, when a librarian reshelving books happened to see them.

"This is probably the most important document the Truman Library has opened in 20 years," Michael J. Devine, the library's director, said in a prepared statement. "Once again, in this diary, we are able to hear that strong personal voice that Truman almost always projected in his writings."

In one memorable entry, Truman recounts a meeting at which he offered to yield the 1948 Democratic presidential nomination to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower if Gen. Douglas MacArthur campaigned for the Republican nomination.

Truman's comments on Eisenhower and MacArthur came in an entry dated July 25, 1947, years before Truman's famous firing of Gen. MacArthur during the Korean War. In the entry, he wrote of a discussion that afternoon with Eisenhower, who was then Army chief of staff.

"We discussed MacArthur and his superiority complex," Truman wrote. "Ike & I think MacArthur expects to make a Roman Triumphal return to the U.S. a short time before the Republican Convention meets in Philadelphia. I told Ike that if he did that that he (Ike) should announce for the nomination for President on the Democratic ticket and that I'd be glad to be in second place, or Vice President. I like the Senate anyway. Ike & I could be elected and my family & myself would be happy outside this great white jail known as the White House."

Truman did not reveal how Eisenhower, who was elected president as a Republican in 1952, reacted to his suggestion. He did note that he and Ike agreed to keep quiet about it: "Ike won't quot [sic] me & I won't quote him."

But Eisenhower did tell the story to confidants, and it leaked out and was recounted in "Eisenhower," a 1983 biography by Stephen E. Ambrose.

"At the time, Truman's chances for reelection appeared to be nil," Ambrose wrote. "Eisenhower assumed that Truman wanted to use him to pull the Democrats out of an impossible situation. The general wanted nothing to do with the Democratic Party; his answer was a flat 'No.' "

Eisenhower sat out the 1948 election, as did MacArthur. Truman ran against New York Gov. Thomas Dewey and won a stunning upset victory.

The diary contains several other interesting Truman comments.

He had praise for Gen. George C. Marshall, whom he appointed secretary of state: "Marshall is, I think the greatest man of the World War II. He managed to get along with Roosevelt, the Congress, Churchill, the Navy and the Joint Chiefs of Staff and he made a grand record in China."

On Jan. 6, he wrote: "Read my annual message. It was good if I do say it myself. . . . Clark Clifford did most of the work. He's a nice boy and will go places."

In that comment, Truman proved prescient. Clifford, then a 40-year-old Truman aide, later became an aide to President John F. Kennedy, secretary of defense under Lyndon Johnson and a major Washington power broker until his death in 1998.

On March 7, he wrote: "Doc tell's [sic] me I have Cardiac Asthma! Aint that hell. Well it makes no diff, will go on as before. I've sworn him to secrecy! So What!"

On July 28 -- "terrible day" -- Truman wrote about his mother's funeral. "Along the road cars, trucks and pedestrians stood with hats off. It made me want to weep -- but I couldn't in public. I've read through thousands of messages from all over the world in the White House study and I can shed tears as I please -- no one's looking."

But Truman's famed plain-spoken wit is also evident in the diary. On July 4, after attending Independence Day festivities in Monticello, Va., he wrote a passage that can only be called Trumanesque:

"Mrs. Astor -- Lady Astor came to the car just before we started from Monticello to say to me that she liked my policies as President but that she thought I had become rather too much 'Yankee.' I couldnt help telling her that my purported 'Yankee' tendencies were not half so bad as her ultra conservative British leanings. She almost had a stroke."

The president's diary, written in the back of a book donated to the Truman Library in 1965, was discovered by a librarian reshelving books. Truman wrote of Jews disparagingly. Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Truman in October 1950. Of the general, Truman wrote: "We discussed MacArthur and his superiority complex."

2003jul14 nyt opinion w. Safire | Truman on Underdogs

By William Safire | July 14, 2003 nytimes

From <https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/14/opinion/truman-on-underdogs.html>

A 5,500-word diary in President Harry Truman's handwriting, unnoticed for decades, recently turned up at the Truman Library in Independence, Mo. Three pages were mysteriously loose and interleaved in the journal.

On these detached and reinserted pages was this entry: ''6:00 P.M. Monday July 21, 1947. Had ten minutes conversation with Henry Morgenthau about Jewish ship in Palistine [sic]. Told him I would talk to Gen[eral George] Marshall about it.''

On that day, news reached the world that 4,500 Jewish refugees seeking entry to Palestine aboard the ship Exodus 1947 had been seized by British soldiers. These ''displaced persons'' had been placed on three vessels ostensibly headed to nearby Cyprus for detention until permitted entry to the Holy Land, where other Jews waited to welcome them. Instead, the homeless families, including a thousand children, were encaged on decks being taken back to a hostile Europe.

''He'd no business, whatever to call me,'' Truman wrote. Morgenthau, who had served as F.D.R.'s treasury secretary, was telephoning Truman as chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, and had an obligation to get through to the president to stop this further atrocity.

''The Jews have no sense of proportion,'' wrote the incensed Truman after he hung up, ''nor do they have any judgement on world affairs. Henry brought a thousand Jews to New York on a supposedly temporary basis and they stayed.'' These refugees were welcomed in Oswego, N.Y., just after the war, and Truman saw political implications in Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's support for Jewish immigration: ''When the country went backward -- and Republican in the election of 1946, this incident loomed large on the D[isplaced] P[ersons] program.''

Then the president vented his spleen on the ethnic group trying desperately to escape from Europe's hatred: ''The Jews, I find are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as DP as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog.''

After equating the cruelty of Jews with that of Hitler and Stalin, Truman waxed philosophic about ingratitude: ''Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.''

Truman wrongly assumed that the plight of all of Europe's displaced was the same -- ignoring the ''special treatment'' Hitler had inflicted on the Jews of the Holocaust, resulting in six million murdered, genocide beyond all other groups' suffering. The homeless survivors now faced sullen populations of former neighbors who wanted no part of the Jews' return.

This diary outburst reflected a longstanding judgment about the ungrateful nature of the oppressed; in a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, he repeated that ''Jews are like all underdogs. When they get on top they are just as intolerant and as cruel as the people were to them when they were underneath.''

Did this deep-seated belief affect Truman's policy about taking immigrants into the U.S., or in failing to urge the British to allow the Exodus refugees haven in Palestine? Maybe; when the National Archives release was front-paged last week in The Washington Post, historians and other liberals hastened to remind us that the long-buried embarrassing entry was written when such talk was ''acceptable.'' The director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum dismissed it as ''typical of a sort of cultural anti-Semitism that was common at that time.''

For decades, I have refused to make such excuses to defend President Nixon for his slurs about Jews on his tapes. This is more dismaying.

Lest we forget, Harry Truman overruled Secretary of State George Marshall and beat the Russians to be first to recognize the state of Israel. The private words of Truman and Nixon are far outweighed by their pro-Israel public actions.

But underdogs of every generation must disprove Truman's cynical theory and have a duty to speak up. I asked Robert Morgenthau, the great Manhattan D.A., about Truman's angry diary entry, and he said, ''I'm glad my father made that call.''

2023may13 How a U.S. president known to disparage [SOME ANNOYING] Jews became godfather of Israel

by Gordon F. Sander | May 13, 2023 | washingtonpost.com

Seventy-five years ago Sunday, precisely on schedule at midnight, the first Jewish state in nearly 2,000 years was declared in Jerusalem.

Exactly 11 minutes later, the historic announcement was followed by another: The U.S. government had recognized that newborn state, called Israel.

The first announcement, which coincided with the end of the contentious British mandate over Palestine, was widely expected. The second was not, even for American officials. Some members of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations were so surprised by President Harry S. Truman’s decision that they broke into laughter:

Why would Truman, a pronounced antisemite, choose to become the American godfather of Israeli statehood?

Yet, of all the momentous decisions that fell to the 33rd U.S. president — dropping the atomic bomb, integrating the armed forces, going to war in Korea — Truman’s decision to recognize Israel stands out as perhaps the most misunderstood. The decision, which launched a fierce international alliance that today is being challenged, was in fact a long time coming.

Denigrations of Jews and the Jewish people were a running topic in Truman’s private correspondence with his wife and friends, as well as his conversations — particularly when he discussed Zionist leaders, and what he felt were their undue pressures on him as the end of the British mandate neared.

“In private,” David McCullough writes in “Truman,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, “Truman was a man who still, out of old habits of the mouth, could use [an antisemitic slur] or, in a letter to his wife, dismiss Miami as nothing but ‘hotels, filling stations, Hebrews, and cabins.’”

David Harris, the former longtime CEO of the American Jewish Committee, maintained that to simply call Truman an antisemite “would be grossly unfair,” citing Truman’s close friendship with his Jewish “Army buddy” Eddie Jacobson, his respect for Jewish history and his actions as a political leader.

Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, right, presents a bronze menorah as a birthday gift to Truman during a visit in 1951. Israeli ambassador to the United States Abba Eban stands with them. (Fritz Cohen/GPO/Getty Images)

In his biography, McCullough highlights a Chicago speech that Truman made in 1943, when he was still a U.S. senator from Missouri and the Nazi extermination apparatus was accelerating, as evidence of Truman’s prosemitic feelings. The thundering address, at the United Rally to Demand Rescue of Doomed Jews, portended his actions to come.

“The history of America in its fight for freedom and the history of the Jews of America are one and the same. … Merely talking about the Four Freedoms is not enough,” Truman declared, in an apparent dig at then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom he would serve as vice president. “This is the time for action. No one can any longer doubt the horrible intentions of the Nazi beasts. We know that they plan the systematic slaughter throughout all of Europe, not only of the Jews but of vast numbers of other innocent peoples.”

“Today, not tomorrow,” he bellowed in his closing comments, “we must do all that is humanly possible to provide a haven and place of safety for all those who can be grasped from the hands of the Nazi butchers.”

The president Truman criticized also picked him to be his running mate in 1944, and Truman assumed the presidency the following April, just weeks into his tenure as vice president, following Roosevelt’s death. Though he had presided over the end of World War II, Truman and his political advisers were seriously concerned in 1948 about his reelection chances, and they had reason to be. A Gallup poll that February suggested he probably would lose to New York Gov. Thomas Dewey, the eventual Republican nominee, or any of the other popular alternatives, including Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

Truman’s waning chances, McCullough wrote, encouraged him further to recognize Israel. “Support for a Jewish homeland was extremely good politics in 1948,” he said, “possibly crucial in such big states as Pennsylvania or Illinois and especially in New York where there were 2.5 million Jews. Nor was there any doubt that the Republicans stood ready to do all they could for the Jewish cause and for the same reasons.”

But beyond the so-called “Jewish vote,” McCullough added, there was vast popular support in the United States for a Jewish homeland in 1948. “As would sometimes be forgotten, it was not just American Jews who were stirred by the prospect of a new nation for the Jewish people, it was most of America.”

“Politics and humanitarian concerns and foreign policy were closely, irrevocably intertwined,” wrote McCullough, who died last year. “Yet for Truman unquestionably, humanitarian concerns mattered foremost.”

Secretary of State George Marshall was among those who believed that Truman and his advisers were paying too much attention to both political and humanitarian concerns in their deliberations over Palestine, rather than strategic ones. And Marshall told Truman so at the tense Palestine strategy conference on May 12, two days before the mandate was about to expire.

“This is just straight politics,” the livid general burst out as Clark Clifford, Truman’s chief political adviser, stated the case for American recognition at that historic meeting. Marshall dismissed Clifford’s argument that Washington recognize the new Jewish state before Moscow, which six months earlier had backed the U.N. move to partition Palestine, laying the groundwork for independence.

Clifford continued with his presentation, as McCullough recounts it. “No matter what the State Department or anybody thinks,” he said, “we are faced with the actual fact that there is to be a Jewish state.”

Marshall was unmoved. In the most electric moment of the meeting, and the most excruciating for Truman, who revered Marshall, the latter declared that if the president followed Clifford’s advice and recognized the state, he would vote against him against in November.

The president’s “expression, serious from the start, changed not at all,” McCullough wrote. “He only raised his hand and said he was fully aware of the difficulties and dangers involved, as well as the political risks involved, which he himself would run.” Truman dismissed the tense meeting, suggesting that all present “sleep on the matter.”

Hence the suspense surrounding Truman’s final decision to recognize the new Jewish state two days later, as well as the shock with which it was received in some diplomatic circles, including at the State Department itself. “The American delegation at the United Nations was flabbergasted,” said McCullough. “Some American delegates actually broke into laughter, thinking the announcement must be somebody’s idea of a joke.”

It was not. Jubilation followed in Jerusalem, dancing in the streets of New York, and consternation and anger at Foggy Bottom and the Pentagon and elsewhere, including and particularly in the Middle East.

Three-quarters of a century later, the decision looms as momentous.

“What would have happened had Truman yielded to Marshall and withheld US diplomatic recognition of the Jewish state?” Harris, the former AJC chief, wrote in an email to The Washington Post. “Would independence still have been declared on May 14, 1948? Most likely, I believe. The momentum for Jewish sovereignty was in high gear. But recognition added incalculable legitimacy and prestige.”

Truman regarded the pivotal role he played in Jewish history as one of his greatest achievements. Israelis wished that he would do even more in the days and months that followed, such as lifting the U.S. embargo on arms shipments, but none could deny his role as guarantor of Israeli independence. When the chief rabbi of Israel later called at the White House, he told Truman, “God put you in your mother’s womb so you would be the instrument to bring the rebirth of Israel after two thousand years.”

In an interview filmed at the Truman Library after his retirement, Truman said that he “antagonized a lot of people by recognizing the state of Israel as soon as it was formed. Well, I had been to Potsdam, and I had seen some of the places where the Jews had been slaughtered by the Nazis. Six million Jews were killed outright — men, women and children — by the Nazis.

“And it is my hope,” he said, “that they would have a homeland.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/05/13/harry-truman-israel-antisemitic/

#1 Snapshot - Genocide Convention

Genocide Convention | Definition | Excerpt from United Nations website

LINK to UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Elements of the crime [TWO KEY ELEMENTS #1 MENTAL #2 PHYSICAL]

A mental element: the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such"; and

A physical element, which includes the following five acts, enumerated exhaustively:

Killing members of the group [SUCCESS]
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group [SUCCESS]
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part [SUCCESS]
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group [SUCCESS]
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group [no need to transfer--just kill them]

#2 Genocidal / Eliminationist Language spoke by Israeli Officials

E1. Meir Ben-Shabbat (MBS): Eliminationist Language and War Goals & Tactics:

Writings on plans for Gaza Genocide by Meir Ben-Shabbat, Head of Misgav, former Chief of Staff for Israel's National Security Council and CEO of influential Zionist & Security think tank

Quotes demonsatrating Intent to Commit Genocide

Committed to Genocide: Meir Ben Shabbat

National Security Advisor / Head of National Security Council

Meir Ben-Shabbat, expressing clear intentions since start of Siege on Gaza !Ben-Shabbat and his think tank have made their position public in Tweets, Opinion articles, white-papers. Israeli officials have made similar statements.

MBS writing on October 12, 2023

The military goals of war are easy to define, even if they are not simple to achieve.

In the final image, the post-war Gaza Strip will be a city of ruins.
Everything related to Hamas - was destroyed, tens of thousands of Hamas and Jihad activists - dead,
without a central government,
and without hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who evacuated from the fighting zones.

[clear cut genocide]

The high command of the IDF needs to be freed from:

the constraints that may hinder it from achieving this and affect the pace of its operations and the utilization of its capabilities.
Among other things - the preoccupation with the failure to warn, the heavy legal bureaucracy associated with combat and the preoccupation with the humanitarian aspects on the systems.
Time is not pressing! One must prepare for the war to last for a long time. in terms of months, not weeks. The voices heard from time to time about the "limited political time window" did not internalize the intensity of the shock. As long as Israeli hostages are held in Gaza - no restraint should be expected from us.

See full article below.

SA Kushner & NSA Ben Shabbat visit the Rabat Mausoleum, December 22, 2020

ACHIEVING MBS VISION: BULLDOZING DOWN EVERYTHING-SCORCHED EARTH

MBS is achieving worse Devasation than did General William Tecumeh Sherman during his "scorched earth" march to the sea

PICTURE GALLERY-->scroll

BULLDOZING CHURCHES, MOSQUES, SCHOOLS, FARMS, HOMES

The IDF Wages Holocaust in the Holy Land

EXCERPT FROM MEIR BEN SHABBAT'S 10-COMMANDMENTS

06 Nov 2023

FULL ARTICLE ATTACHED BELOW

1. The security of our forces comes before preventing risks to the population:Hamas's first line of defense has been broken. The Gaza Strip is divided into two. The city of Gaza is <knocked out, destroyed>. The stage before us - the purification - is difficult and dangerous. [this is ethnic cleansing] Th

2. The hospitals in Gaza - better sooner than later: As the hospitals in Gaza serve as headquarters, provide shelter for Hamas operatives and a regular supply channel for them - it is better to act against them early. Once a warning has been given and there are alternatives for providing the medical treatment, any postponement is our fault. It will allow the enemy to safely conduct the campaign and direct the attack on our forces that will operate in the nearby areas. Since we will have to deal with them in any case, it is better to do it early and avoid the possible damages due to postponement.

3. Attack in Gaza the police, government ministries, municipalities and internal security forces of Hamas - Hamas must be made unable to provide any services to its citizens, or to enforce its instructions on them. This is the practical expression of the statement "the overthrow of the Hamas government". [This Translates to destroying schools, courts, UNRWA, other humanitarian aid, and creating an impossible humanitarian crises forcing the Transfer of Gazans Out of Gaza]

4. The paralysis of the Internet in Gaza: completely and not intermittently! . This is essential to:disrupt the control of Hamas,

interfere with propaganda efforts,

The disconnection of the Internet will increase the chaos in the Strip. The fog will be thicker. [SO WE CAN HOLOCAUST PALESTINIANS, RAPE, PILLAGE]

No need to worry about that. The chaos is an inevitable step on the way to the new reality in Gaza.

5. Humanitarian ceasefires - a danger to our forces. [this is stated as a ‘talking point’ rather than objective fact] Hamas will take advantage of the ceasefire to prepare and attack our forces. The ceasefire will make it possible to improve the picture in his hands, to identify weak points and opportunities in front of our forces, to capture buildings and axes of movement, to transport fighters and means.

As I recall, during "Tzuk Eitan" we paid a heavy price in blood during a humanitarian truce that was held under the auspices of the United Nations. At the very least, when our abductees are held in the Gaza Strip without access by the Red Cross and without basic humanitarian rights, it is wrong to allow such truces.

6. Immediately design a new security parameter: act to significantly distance the current line of contact along the entire border of the strip and also occupy the areas of the northern demarcation. This is of supreme security importance for the day after and it will also be part of the price for the attack against us. It is important to do this now as part of shaping the new reality.

7. Preoccupation with the day after - premature and harmful: conveys to the enemy that the war is on the way to an end and strengthens his spirit and resistance, may transmit the same message to our forces and damage the positive momentum, it has the potential for an internal perceptual dispute and damage the existing cohesion, it also contains the potential for disputes with the US as well.

The countries of the West and the countries of the region and most importantly:

the day after depends on the size of the military achievement that will be achieved, on the dynamics and the opportunities that will be created in its wake - it is impossible to predict all of this right now. Therefore, it is right to focus on the war and only the war and be content with clarifying that the day after there will be no Hamas rule, a military threat to Israel, Israeli responsibility for civilian issues, limitations on Israeli security activity.

8. War on Hamas also in Israel: to continue with full vigor! This is essential to prevent inspired or revenge attacks. It is also necessary to crush the infrastructure [MEANING FLATTEN ALL OF GAZA]. And it is also important to instill the concept - Israel will pursue Hamas everywhere all the time! In the current reality, it is true To prevent Palestinians from entering to work in Israel or to the industrial zones in Yosh.

9. The world and the region expect the complete subjugation of Hamas:

10. The spirit of the IDF - "After me!" -

MBS & Jared Kushner | Abu Dhabi peace deal

i24NEWS speaks with Meir Ben Shabbat

Jul 20, 2023 #Hezbollah #i24NEWS #Israel

i24NEWS speaks to former Israeli national security advisor Meir Ben Shabbat on tensions with Hezbollah.

...MORE MBS GENOCIDAL (NAZI) STATMENTS

PROPOSED WARSAW GHETTO CONCENTRATION CAMP ON STEROIDS [ONE-THIRD MORE DENSE THAN MANHATTAN] IN PROGRESS!!!

https://twitter.com/MisgavINS/status/1713591674742419839

A humanitarian center for Gaza evacuees should be established in Sinai or, alternatively, in the south of the Gaza Strip in the area of the former Dahaniya airport

highlights:

● In order to achieve the goals of the war in Gaza, as defined by the cabinet, the IDF will probably be required to enter the Gaza Strip and fight in a built-up area. Both from a military point of view, from a political point of view, and for humanitarian reasons, it is better for this fighting to take place when the small number of people are in the area mostly of uninvolved citizens.

● As in other cases around the world of intense fighting in a built-up area, Israel can initiate the evacuation of uninvolved civilians to predetermined areas where fighting will not occur. The condition for housing in these areas is non-participation in combat and complete disarmament.

● The first option in relation to the evacuation of the citizens from Gaza is to reach an agreement with the US, Egypt and the UN that will allow the establishment of an international humanitarian center in the Egyptian Rafah to treat the residents of Gaza. [THERE IS NO EGYPTIAN RAFAH--IT'S BEEN BULLDOZED!]

● Another option is to establish a center in the Gaza Strip, at the southeastern edge of the Strip (the location of the former Dahaniya Airport), where it will be possible to house hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who wish to do so. In addition to being an uninhabited area, this is a convenient area in terms of providing international humanitarian aid.

● From an examination of the population density in refugee camps all over the world, it appears that the population density can range from 25-100 thousand people per square kilometer. [ONE-THIRD MORE DENSE THAN MANHATTAN] This means that it is possible to live in such an area between 200-800 thousand people, all depending on the conditions. That is, such an area can house hundreds of thousands of Palestinian citizens far from the combat zone.

To read the full paper, by Dr. Adi Shortz and Attorney Yigal Ram -

WHAT if You America got "EVACUATED" Israeli-style?

Rafah is about the same land area and population as Haifa (3rd Largest City in Israel)

Due to Siege, Rafah's population is FIVE TIMES its pre-War population--Relative to U.S. cities, Rafah's POPULATION DENSITY of 56,000 people per square miles ranks 2nd in the U.S. after Manhattan Island (73,000 per square mile).

Rafah IS NOW like THE WARSAW GHETTO! (350k/per square mile). In terms of Population, It would take ELEVEN Little Rock's to equal ONE Gaza Strip. Imagine ELEVEN times the population of Little Rock Arkansas being placed inside the land area of Little Rock (120 sq miles) --This is roughly equivalent to the Gaza Strip (142 sq miles). Now Imagine cramming HALF of this population into less than one fifth of Little Rock--This is equivalent to Rafah under Siege today.

PICTURE GALLERY

ISRAEL'S WAR ON TREES & PLANTS

2023 - PRESENT

PICTURE GALLERY

RAFAH DESTRUCTION &

SINAI DESTRUCTION by Egypt & Israel

2000 to present

2023Oct12 MBS The war imposed on Israel - an opportunity to fundamentally change reality

Tweet & Link to attached article

Tweet Translation: Meir Ben Shabat, head of the Meshgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy: The terrible price that Israel paid for entering the war that was imposed on it provides it with a historic opportunity to fundamentally change reality. Not only to eradicate the rule of Hamas and destroy its capabilities, but also to bring about the fact that the Gaza Strip will no longer be a nuisance to the State of Israel - not from a political point of view, not from a security point of view, not from an economic point of view and from any other point of view. As long as Israeli hostages are held in Gaza - no restraint on our part should be expected. At this stage, alongside the preparations for the next offensive moves in combat, it is right to focus on two main efforts: defense and crushing and Israel must make it clear that from now on the humanitarian needs of Gaza are of no concern to it.

From <https://twitter.com/MisgavINS/status/1712792425024868812>

Full article attached to Tweet in in IsraelHayom (translated into English)

דעה | המלחמה שנכפתה על ישראל - הזדמנות לשנות את המציאות מהיסוד | ישראל היום

The war imposed on Israel - an opportunity to fundamentally change reality

The terrible price that Israel paid for entering the war that was imposed on it allows it not only to eradicate the rule of Hamas and destroy its capabilities, but also to bring about the fact that the Gaza Strip will no longer be a nuisance to the State of Israel for any reason

Meir Ben Shabbat, Head of Misgav | Israelyahom | 12 October 2013

The surprise attack by Hamas on Israel is an event with historical consequences. While Hamas does not pose an existential threat to the country, the results of its attack against us could put Israel in a situation of existential threat from other enemies. The Israeli response to this is the only thing that can prevent this. This is the main consideration that should guide Israel's political and security leadership in planning the next moves in relation to Gaza.

A main consideration, but not the only one: the terrible price that Israel paid for entering the war that was imposed on it provides it with a historic opportunity to fundamentally change reality. Not only to eradicate the rule of Hamas and destroy its capabilities, but also to ensure that the Gaza Strip is no longer a nuisance to the State of Israel - not from a political point of view, not from a security point of view, not from an economic point of view and from any other point of view.

Bombed Gaza, photo: Getty Images

The polished formulation of the political purpose of the war should reflect this idea. There is no obligation to make statements about it. It is more important that the message reaches the planning and execution factors sharply and clearly. This is the compass that should direct the IDF and all the systems involved in the fighting effort: on the battlefield, in the political field and in other areas.

Everything related to Hamas will be destroyed

The military goals of war are easy to define, even if they are not simple to achieve.

In the final image, the post-war Gaza Strip will be a city of ruins.
Everything related to Hamas - was destroyed, tens of thousands of Hamas and Jihad activists - dead,
without a central government,
and without hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who evacuated from the fighting zones.

[clear cut genocide]

The high command of the IDF needs to be freed from:

the constraints that may hinder it from achieving this and affect the pace of its operations and the utilization of its capabilities.
Among other things - the preoccupation with the failure to warn, the heavy legal bureaucracy associated with combat and the preoccupation with the humanitarian aspects on the systems.
Time is not pressing! One must prepare for the war to last for a long time. in terms of months, not weeks. The voices heard from time to time about the "limited political time window" did not internalize the intensity of the shock. As long as Israeli hostages are held in Gaza - no restraint should be expected from us.
[propaganda] The fear in the world about the reappearance of ISIS in the form of Hamas, and the expectation from Israel to prevent it, are on our side.
In any case, understanding the time frame is essential not only for the mental and logistical preparation of the home front, but also to plan and prioritize the military missions.

At this stage, alongside the preparations for the next offensive moves in combat, it is right to focus on two main efforts: defense and crushing.

The many forces must be utilized to thicken the defense formations, create a very wide security space along the borders of the Strip, and enable a quick and effective response to any suspicious occurrence.
The IDF should continue the massive crushing, destroy to death and lose everything related in any way to the Hamas organization or the Hamas administration. Release barriers that affect the pace and blow up activists' houses, offices, vehicles and mechanical equipment, generators, etc.

The issue of the ground maneuver and the timing of its execution must be examined first and foremost according to the assessment of its expected contribution to the achievement of the goals.

The alternatives to this must also be examined, and the level of preparedness of the IDF forces and the enemy's situation must be taken into account. Although our forces are capable of winning in any conflict, we must strive for the cost on our part to be minimal, also in order not to give additional morale gains to the enemy. Because it is better to do this after a prolonged defeat and when the enemy is worn out, rather than when he is fresh and full of vigor.

Tighten the siege

It is essential to continue, and even tighten, the siege on Gaza. The destruction of the power plant in Gaza is required to make Hamas' conduct more difficult, and it will also benefit the effort to bring about a fundamental change in the Strip.

Smoke billows over Gaza after the IDF strikes, photo: AFP

In order to make it clear that we are calling for a fundamental change in the Gaza Strip - it is essential to announce the cancellation of the civil coordination and liaison function for Gaza, which is responsible for handling the civilian affairs of the Gaza Strip. Israel must make it clear that from now on the humanitarian needs of Gaza are not its concern. This declaration is required not only in front of the international and local community, but also so that the elements of the Israeli system internalize it.

The blow that fell on Israel is hard and painful. We are still burying our dead, horrified to hear the atrocities committed by the human animals bathed in hatred and evil. We must raise our national stature, exhaust the tremendous forces that lie within us and break through in moments of national crisis, and bring about the necessary historical change in Gaza for the sake of future generations. We can do it.

Meir Ben Shabat is the head of the "Mishgav" Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy in Jerusalem, he was the head of the MLA in the years 2021-2017 and commanded the southern region of the Shin Bet

2024Mar04 MBS No alternative but to pursue its goals until they are fully met.

Israel must act wisely as key moment arrives in Gaza war

By Meir Ben Shabbat | 2024 March 3 | JNS.org / Israel Hayoum

Meir Ben Shabbat is head of the Misgav Institute for Zionist Strategy & National Security, in Jerusalem. He served as Israel’s national security advisor and head of the National Security Council between 2017 and 2021. Prior to that, for 25 years he held senior positions in the Israel Security Agency (Shabak).

Enemies, friends and neutrals are keeping a watchful eye: The Jewish state has no alternative but to pursue its goals until they are fully met.

https://www.jns.org/israel-must-act-wisely-as-key-moment-arrives-in-gaza-war/

Just the attack near Ma’ale Adumim on Feb. 22 and the previous week’s attack near Kiryat Malachi, the attack in Eli on Thursday should not come as a surprise. The “inspiration” supplied by the war in Gaza, the calls from terrorist group leaders on Judea and Samaria Arabs to join the struggle and open an active front against Israel, and Al Jazeera’s ongoing fanning of the flames of revenge have created an atmosphere conducive to carrying out such attacks.

The availability of arms and the friction with IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians complete the three conditions required for this: motive, means and targets. Intensive efforts by security forces have prevented mass attacks through arrests, demolitions of terrorist residences and operations—including pinpointed raids and steps against terrorist networks.

It is possible the shock from the Oct. 7 attack and fear among terrorist groups in Judea and Samaria that they are the main target of the Israeli rage that followed could also explain the Israeli counterterrorism successes of late. But if that is the case, we will likely see additional attempts to carry out attacks as this effect wears off.

To rise to this challenge, Israeli security forces should lower the suspicion threshold for preventative steps. This could be done in part by adopting some elements of the policy practiced in Jenin and northern Samaria to other areas, fast-tracking the decisions to carry out home demolitions, and increasing efforts to thwart weapons production or smuggling.

The high presence of security personnel and armed civilians increases the likelihood of quick and effective responses. The IDF and police would be wise to invest in public advocacy to explain to the public how to act when they are caught in a terrorist attack, to minimize the risk of friendly fire.

We cannot compromise in Gaza

In its Gaza war, Israel needs a decisive, unambiguous and indisputable victory. Deterrence will not be restored if the narrative emerges that Israel had not achieved its goals despite being subjected to the atrocities of Oct. 7 and after so many troops were deployed for this operation. If that narrative were to emerge, Israel would face an existential threat, its enemies would feel even more inclined to attack, and its diplomatic stature would suffer a lethal blow.

Regional and international players—enemies, friends and neutral actors—are keeping a watchful eye on developments. Their stance and conduct towards Israel will be affected by the outcome in Gaza. This makes it all the more evident Israel has no alternative but to pursue the war’s goals until they are fully met.

The IDF’s achievements so far are impressive. They have, in themselves, the ability to demonstrate—at least to Hezbollah in Lebanon—Israel’s military prowess and its civilian strength.

But much work remains: Hamas’s Rafah Brigade—with its four battalions—has yet to be dismantled. The combatworthiness of Hamas’s top leadership and rank and file are intact. The scale of damage to the tunneling infrastructure and weapons is hard to assess, but it is premature to declare them destroyed.

Under such conditions, Hamas’s recovery could be swift, especially with the capabilities and mechanisms of many undamaged government institutions at its disposal. Therefore, Israel must not fall for offers that would bring an end to the war, even if the wording is tailored so that it is easier to sell to the public.

On this matter, one cannot compromise, not even in the face of political pressures or attempts to exploit the captive issue to halt the IDF. Hamas will likely not agree to a “grand bargain” without guarantees to end fighting and security/civilian arrangements ensuring its continued rule of the Strip. Israel of course cannot agree to such a deal.

Thus, the practical path forward, as seen by mediators, is a phased deal. If so, we should strive to free as many captives as possible at the lowest possible price, and in any event, without preventing Israel from resuming combat operations.

Negotiations over the captives should continue while increasing pressure on Hamas, including by targeting its overseas leaders and demanding Washington use its significant leverage on Qatar.

An inevitable stop on the way

Even before the facts came out, Arab countries and the world quickly pinned the blame on Israel for the incident that saw some 100 Palestinians trampled to death when running towards aid trucks brought into northern Gaza.

There is no reason to doubt the IDF spokesperson’s version and the initial military probe’s findings, but one must assume these will mainly convince those already convinced. Hamas leaders gleefully rubbing their hands at Israeli “entanglement” see the civilians’ deaths as reasonable payment for added political pressure on Israel, especially ahead of the IDF’s planned Rafah operation.

In the conditions created in Gaza, there is no practical, safe way to enable civilian aid to the population without it being seized by Hamas, unless the IDF distributes it. As we learned with UNRWA, one cannot rely on the “neutrality” of international bodies, or expect them to withstand Hamas pressure. The same holds for foreign states, regionally and beyond. The notion that the Palestinian Authority could do this without being at the mercy of Hamas ignores the intra-Strip power dynamic.

To meet this challenge, again consider establishing “de-escalation zones” with no Hamas access, where humanitarian aid would be provided solely to the population. This removes Hamas aid control, preventing both the equipping of its people and the strengthening of its standing and governance.

One way or another, the incident must not cause retreat or backing off by Israel in its efforts to dismantle Hamas’s rule. As the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center said in a new report, many Hamas governmental and public institutions continue to function either fully or in some partial capacity, including the government spokesperson’s office and ministries responsible for operating security agencies and the Hamas home front. It makes no sense to let such institutions and apparatuses continue to operate, as they are designed to help Hamas cement its control.

Despite the short-term costs this process may incur, halting their activity is a necessary step in the path towards replacing Hamas.

Meir Ben Shabbat is head of the Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy, in Jerusalem. He served as Israel’s national security adviser and head of the National Security Council between 2017 and 2021, and before that for 30 years in the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet).

Originally published by Israel Hayom.

2023Nov06 MBS "Ten commandments on the war in Gaza by Meir Ben Shabbat"

2023Nov6- Interview with Meir Bin-Shabbat,

Translated and Marked up version of 10 Commandments (Moses would be pissed)

Fact checks & Definitions of some Jargon

Original Tweet in Hebrew with Translation by Google

Marked-up of 10 Commandments

מכון משגב לביטחון לאומי ולאסטרטגיה ציונית | @MisgavINS | 6 Nov 2023

עשר הערות על המלחמה בעזה מאת: מאיר בן שבת 1. ביטחון כוחותינו קודם למניעת סיכונים לאוכלוסיה: קו ההגנה הראשון של

Translated from Hebrew by Google

Ten commandments on the war in Gaza By: Meir Ben Shabat

1. The security of our forces comes before preventing risks to the population:Hamas's first line of defense has been broken. The Gaza Strip is divided into two. The city of Gaza is named. The stage before us - the purification - is difficult and dangerous. The IDF commanders have the knowledge, skill, methods and tools required for this. They do not need advice. Instead, it is right to continue to back them up. Especially in decisions where priority will be given to reducing the risk to our forces even at the cost of increasing the risk of harm to the population and the political criticism that will result from this.

2. The hospitals in Gaza - better sooner than later: As the hospitals in Gaza serve as headquarters, provide shelter for Hamas operatives and a regular supply channel for them - it is better to act against them early. Once a warning has been given and there are alternatives for providing the medical treatment, any postponement is our fault. It will allow the enemy to safely conduct the campaign and direct the attack on our forces that will operate in the nearby areas. Since we will have to deal with them in any case, it is better to do it early and avoid the possible damages due to postponement.

3. Attack in Gaza the police, government ministries, municipalities and internal security forces of Hamas - Hamas must be made unable to provide any services to its citizens, or to enforce its instructions on them. This is the practical expression of the statement "the overthrow of the Hamas government".

4. The paralysis of the Internet in Gaza: completely and not intermittently! . This is essential to:

disrupt the control of Hamas,

prevent effective coordination between the government mechanisms,
interfere with propaganda efforts,
increase confusion in the field and prevent the flow of information that would interfere and possibly even endanger our forces in the field.

The intermittent pauses do not produce this effect. Even if there are advantages in its operation, they are null compared to the disadvantages..

The disconnection of the Internet will increase the chaos in the Strip. The fog will be thicker.

No need to worry about that. The chaos is an inevitable step on the way to the new reality in Gaza.

5. Humanitarian ceasefires - a danger to our forces. [this is stated as a ‘talking point’ rather than objective fact] Hamas will take advantage of the ceasefire to prepare and attack our forces. The ceasefire will make it possible to improve the picture in his hands, to identify weak points and opportunities in front of our forces, to capture buildings and axes of movement, to transport fighters and means.

As I recall, during "Tzuk Eitan" we paid a heavy price in blood during a humanitarian truce that was held under the auspices of the United Nations. At the very least, when our abductees are held in the Gaza Strip without access by the Red Cross and without basic humanitarian rights, it is wrong to allow such truces. 6. Immediately design a new security parameter: act to significantly distance the current line of contact along the entire border of the strip and also occupy the areas of the northern demarcation. This is of supreme security importance for the day after and it will also be part of the price for the attack against us. It is important to do this now as part of shaping the new reality.

7. Preoccupation with the day after - premature and harmful: conveys to the enemy that the war is on the way to an end and strengthens his spirit and resistance, may transmit the same message to our forces and damage the positive momentum, it has the potential for an internal perceptual dispute and damage the existing cohesion, it also contains the potential for disputes with the US as well.

The countries of the West and the countries of the region and most importantly:

the day after depends on the size of the military achievement that will be achieved, on the dynamics and the opportunities that will be created in its wake - it is impossible to predict all of this right now. Therefore, it is right to focus on the war and only the war and be content with clarifying that the day after there will be no Hamas rule, a military threat to Israel, Israeli responsibility for civilian issues, limitations on Israeli security activity.

8. War on Hamas also in Israel: to continue with full vigor! This is essential to prevent inspired or revenge attacks. It is also necessary to crush the infrastructure. And it is also important to instill the concept - Israel will pursue Hamas everywhere all the time! In the current reality, it is true To prevent Palestinians from entering to work in Israel or to the industrial zones in Yosh.

9. The world and the region expect the complete subjugation of Hamas: "If the war ends without the destruction of Hamas, it will be a victory for Hamas and a defeat for Israel and the free world" - this is what Saudi journalist Abd al-Aziz al-Khamis told Roy Kays from "Kan" news.

He thereby expressed the expectation of many leaders, in the world and in the region. Even those who in public will express an opposite position. Israel is indeed fighting its own war, but it is also the war of all those who fear the monstrous Hamas-ISIS. [BULLSHIT]The political window of time for the IDF's action will also be affected by the determination that Israel will demonstrate in achieving the goals!

10. The spirit of the IDF - "After me!" - The arrival of Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi in Gaza in the midst of the fighting, as well as the deep involvement and presence of the senior command in the battlefield, instills confidence in the fighters, conveys faith, determination, personal example and leadership. Not only our soldiers notice this. Also Hamas terrorists, who are sent to their deaths while their senior commanders are hiding deep in tunnels or behind the backs of civilians taken as human shields. The Israeli spirit will win.

A month has passed since the murderous surprise attack by Hamas. . The attack will be etched in the collective national consciousness as a defining event, to change a generation. Israel after October 7, will not be the same country again. We are still in the middle of the painful episode. It will take a long time to digest what happened. Alongside the unimaginable evil, more and more stories of heroism, expressions of volunteering, manifestations of brotherhood and inspiring evil are revealed. In the childhood of every nation there is a heroic period of Nephilim, famous heroes, converts of Genesis. The same is true in our nation. We grew up on their stories.

We embraced their leadership. The generation of 578 was a model for us and so were the heroes of the six days and the rescuers of the kidnapped in Entebbe. From the inferno we will also discover before our eyes the height of the generation of Tashpad. The writer is the head of the Meshgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy.

2023Nov22 MBS Interview with Meir Ben-Shabbat, No Cease Fire, No 'Surgical Strikes'

2023Nov22 - Interview - Ben-Shabbat - "The ceasefire will allow Hamas to reorganize"

Ariel Whitman | en.globes.co.il | 22 Nov, 2023 15:27

"The ceasefire will allow Hamas to reorganize" - Globes

Former National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat says the government has an enormous commitment to release every hostage possible, while understanding the risks of a pause in fighting.

In efforts to understand the implications of the hostage deal on the continued fighting and Israel's situation in northern and southern Gaza, we spoke to Meir Ben-Shabbat, who served as National Security Advisor from 2017 to 2021.

Will the several days of ceasefire for the hostage deal allow us to resume the war?

"Hamas's immediate aim is to bring about a halt in the fighting by Israel, while creating a track that will allow it to produce the maximum gain from the hostages it holds. It is pinning its hopes on negotiations for an exchange deal, on internal pressure in Israel on this issue and pressure that the international community will exert on Israel on the humanitarian issue.

"As expected, with the assistance of Qatar, whose main interest is to ensure its survival, Hamas officials have laid out the temptation and started using the hostages to achieve their aims. Along the way, they will try to erase a little of the stain that stuck to them from their inhuman barbarism, and also intensify the disputes and internal pressures in Israel.

"I don't envy the government ministers and the heads of the security services, in deciding on the deal to release babies and their mothers, in exchange for the release of terrorists and the pause in fighting for several days. On the one hand, the enormous commitment to release everyone possible, and the understanding that any delay in doing so could be fateful for them, while on the other hand, the heavy price of the release, putting our soldiers at risk. The ceasefire will allow Hamas to assess the situation, reorganize, identify weak points on the Israeli side, protect itself, set traps, and strike. The fuel that will be put into the Strip will also help it greatly. Hamas will begin the next phase of the fighting from a much improved position compared with its current situation.

"One way or another, Israel must not end the war in the Gaza Strip without toppling Hamas from power and destroying its capabilities. The difficult opening conditions in which we entered the war, leave us no other choice. If we do not achieve this, it will have consequences for the balance of deterrence against its other enemies as well, in a way that may expose us to an existential threat."

To say goodbye to the surgical concept

Ben-Shabbat, who is currently Head of the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy in Jerusalem, published an op-ed piece in "Globes," several days after the massacres in the south, in which he said that the only statistic that matters is the number of dead terrorists. We asked him if that is still the parameter that must be examined.

Ben-Shabbat says, "Indeed these were the words I wrote immediately after the cruel surprise attack on October 7 and in those words I sought to stress two messages.

Firstly, the circumstances required us to say goodbye to the surgical concept that had characterized our operations in Gaza in recent years. Targeted strikes on senior Hamas officials are not sufficient or attacks concentrating on targets in order to offset the damage to Israel's deterrence image. We need a massive, broad and deeper damage.
"The second emphasis was the need to inflict irreversible damage on Hamas. From Hamas's perspective, the damage to its military and governmental infrastructure is indeed painful, but it is reversible.

For them, everything can be restored, even if it takes time and requires resources.

The only thing that cannot be restored is the killing of its commanders and fighters. In order to defeat the Hamas organization, it is not enough to deprive it of its military capabilities, it is necessary to severely damage its most important infrastructure: its people."

How is the IDF progressing? What is it doing well and what not so well?

"The IDF's operations are continuing to achieve its military targets. The fighting of our forces in Gaza exudes power. As far as one can get an impression through the veil of ambiguity that the IDF employs, and rightly so - it is being well managed. The conduct of the forces demonstrates professionalism. Cooperation between the different branches and services is broad, close and precise. While fighting there is also a process of learning, rapid transfer of knowledge and drawing initial conclusions, between the forces and in the different regions.

"All of this multiplies the strength and increases effectiveness of the forces in offense and defense.

They are also important vis-à-vis Israel's other enemies, who monitor and examine its conduct, as part of the assessment of the situation and as a basis for their decisions.

If the thought crossed Hezbollah's mind to wait until the IDF is exhausted in Gaza and then initiate a military move against Israel, now they will have to assume that they will meet a ready, trained and well-practiced army, much more so than it was before the Gaza war."

"And yet," stresses Ben-Shabbat, "The road to achieving the aims of the war in Gaza is still long. The goals that the political echelon has set are aimed at fatally damaging the enemy's government and military capabilities. Not just to exact a price or merely deter. Achieving these aims takes time. This is a process that requires systematic, broad and prolonged activity. Not a campaign restricted in time and scope.

"The enemy's aim is to survive, and as far as possible to also strike by forays from tunnel shafts, to strike and escape, or set traps for the forces. It does go for head-on confrontation with the forces.

For this end it has prepared an extensive network of tunnels, and will use any person, facility or means in the Gaza Strip, hospitals, schools, mosques, humanitarian convoys and anything it can use. This is very challenging for the fighters on the ground.

"I remind you that our forces are operating within a hostile population, a large part of which supports Hamas and actions against Israel. I believe that in this reality of the Gaza Strip, we must back up an approach that reduces as much as possible the risks to our forces, even at the cost of severely harming the humanitarian matters."

The unique reality of Gaza

What is your opinion on the cabinet decision to allow fuel into the Gaza Strip?

"Letting fuel into the Gaza Strip will help Hamas," Ben-Shabbat says unequivocally.

"I assume that this is also understood in the cabinet and the defense establishment. If this was done for humanitarian reasons, I do not think it was right to prioritize these considerations over the operational considerations against Hamas. If this was done because of US pressure, the operational significance of the matter should have been clarified with them. They should understand that allowing in fuel will probably not significantly improve the situation of the population, while on the other hand it will most likely prolong the duration of the fighting and increase the risks to our forces and indirectly to the population as well.

"In general, the discussion about fuel should be used to talk about the principles of fighting in the unique reality of the Gaza Strip.

My impression is that the US position assumes that in the Gaza Strip, enemy fighters can be separated from the population, and that the fighting is carried out against the enemy separately from the state apparatus. These two assumptions are not the reality."

How do you propose coping on the northern front?

"Israel has the ability to act simultaneously on several fronts, but the principle of concentration of effort requires that resources be focused on the main effort at the moment - the Gaza Strip. In the meantime, Israel's policy towards Hezbollah is the one defined by the Minister of Defense as 'active defense,' meaning working to disrupt and to thwart the enemy's activity, reinforcing defenses and also take advantage of every event to exact a price, even in places where the enemy does not expect us to operate. I believe that this approach is correct. Of course, this is a temporary reality, and it needs to be examined all the time, even during the fighting in Gaza."

What do you think about the Houthis? Is this not a sign that the Iranians are involved in every detail of the war?

"The Houthi movement is indeed a local organization but at the same time it is also one of the leading organizations in the Shiite militias that are operated or supported by Iran, with a pan-regional orientation. Iran perceives the Houthis as a bargaining chip in its struggle against Israel and against Saudi Arabia. Influenced by the war in Iraq, there was a radicalization of their attitude towards the US and Israel and a strengthening of their pro-Palestinian position. I remind you that the motto of the Houthis is 'death to America, death to Israel, curse the Jews and victory to Islam.'

"Indeed, their attacks against Israel during the war are part of Iran's support for Hamas, but also an expression of the Houthis' own commitment to the Palestinians and the struggle against Israel, and also an expression of their desire to demonstrate strength against the Gulf countries and the Arabian Peninsula. As mentioned, this is an expression of Iranian support, but that does not mean that they are involved in every detail of the campaign."

Does negotiations through Qatar not lend legitimacy to a country that supports a terrorist organization?

"Qatar is not a neutral mediator," says Ben-Shabbat about the country that mainly deals with mediation efforts in the deal for the release of the hostages. "It sponsors Hamas. Its first interest is to protect Hamas from Israel. In order to promote the return of the hostages it is necessary to increase the pressure, both through the IDF's activities in the field and through Qatar.

"The time has come to change the policy towards Qatar. To demand that the US uses 'sticks' and not just 'carrots' towards it, and that it reexamines its relations with it, including the cancelation or reduction of economic, diplomatic and military ties (one of the most important US military bases) in the Middle East is less than 20 kilometers from where Hamas leaders hold their meetings) and imposing sanctions on all Qatari entities involved in providing support to Hamas. Qatar should be made to immediately deport the Hamas leaders in its territory and see them as targets for a surgical attack by Israel."

A revised vision is needed

Ben-Shabbat concludes by saying that Israel after October 7 will not be the same country as it was before. The basic assumptions, structures and concepts in all fields will undergo a change. Israel will need a revised vision that will appeal to the vast majority of the people and draw up lines for the image of the state and its conduct in the coming decades. In this darkness of October 7, we saw quite a few sparks of heroism, leadership, sacrifice and mutual support.

"Society in Israel must take the good things that happened in this war that was imposed on us, and embrace them strongly in our routine times.
One of the most prominent of them is the unity, solidarity, and rapprochement that we have seen between the parts of society as a whole, after a not-short period in which we were immersed in fights and disputes that were unbearable.
"The enemy wanted to see us fall apart. Instead, it finds us united and mobilized to help each other, willing to sacrifice, full of faith and determined to win. These qualities are not new. They have been ingrained in us since time immemorial. The war only removed the thin layer that covered them and reminded us of our true character."

Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on November 22, 2023.

Israel thwarts Hamas on the financial battlefield

Israel gambles on guns

https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-the-ceasefire-will-allow-hamas-to-reorganize-1001463140

...MBS ANTICIPATED HAMAS ATTACK!!!

2023aug15 MISGAV MBS *****<HAMAS KIDNAPPING> | A bright warning light for the security system

2023aug15 MISGAV MBS *****<HAMAS KIDNAPPING> | A bright warning light for the security system: Hamas is returning to the method that gave it achievements

It remains on the fringes of the news, and it's a shame: the planning of the kidnapping attack may mark a dangerous change of direction in Hamas as part of an attempt to bring about the release of its people imprisoned in Israel • former MLA head Meir Ben Shabat, commentary

Former MLA head Meir Ben Shabat|N12 | Published 08/15/23 mako

It is likely that this is an organizational decision to renew the kidnappings, Hamas operatives in Gaza Photo: Atia Muhammad, Flash 90

In the heat of the events and since announcements about the exposure of terrorist cells have become a matter of routine, the unusual report about a Hamas cell from the Binyamin area whose members planned to kidnap an IDF soldier and were arrested in an advanced stage of the preparations for this slipped under the media radar.

According to the Shin Bet's statement, the members of the squad equipped themselves with weapons, gathered information, conducted field patrols in order to learn about the activity routine of the soldiers serving in the Binyamin area, planned escape routes and even prepared a hiding place to hold the soldier who would be kidnapped. They acted with the support and guidance of the Hamas headquarters abroad. and in Gaza.

HAMAS COMMAND & CONTROL ORDERING KIDNAPPINGS

If the planning of the kidnapping attack was indeed done following the instructions of the Hamas headquarters or with its approval and was not the result of a local initiative, then it must be seen as an organizational decision to renew the use of the kidnapping method for bargaining purposes. If this is the case, it would be correct to assume that similar instructions were (or will be) also passed on to squads and additional recruits.

IMAGE: An attack that requires extensive logistical preparation, the exposed infrastructure Photo: Shin Bet Communication

In the view of Hamas, the kidnapping attacks are the main path to bring about the release of its people imprisoned in Israel. In Gaza, Hamas holds the bodies of IDF martyrs - Oron Shaul and the late Hadar Goldin, and civilians - Avra Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed. She uses them as bargaining chips for this purpose. The planning of the kidnapping attack can show that the Hamas leaders have come to terms with the fact that the assets in their hands are not enough to bring about a worthwhile exchange deal, so they are trying to get more cards.

HAMAS PAYS HIGH PRICE FROM ISRAELI REPRISALS FOR KIDNAPPINGS

This should be known, carrying out a kidnapping attack is not a trivial matter. Such an attack involves a complicated operation. It requires complex inter-regional coordination and prolonged logistical preparation, while evading Israeli intelligence sensors and Palestinian security mechanisms. Such an attack entails heavy costs following the investigative actions or Israel's response measures, which will follow. Such an attack could also expose Gaza to the possibility of a flare-up, at a time that would not necessarily suit Hamas' wishes. These are considerations that stand before the eyes of the leaders of Hamas, even though the commitment to freeing their people and the prestige expected from this, usually tip the scale in favor of carrying out the attacks.

IMAGE: Salah al- Aruri leads the "kidnapping operations" against Israel Photo: Reuters

WARNING LIGHT FOR SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT

The exposure of this link should turn on a warning light for the security establishment and add another concern to its multitude of concerns these days. First and foremost, it is right to refresh the guidelines for preventive behavior. It is also correct to increase countermeasures against Hamas elements and reduce the movement permits that allow direct coordination between the Gaza Strip and areas in Judea and Samaria. Beyond that, the time has come to say goodbye to some of the figures who have been leading the "kidnapping operations" against us for years, chief among them is Saleh al-Aruri, who lives abroad. His unnatural departure, under circumstances attributed to Israel, will strengthen the deterrence towards other adversaries, whose self-confidence has recently risen .

>>> Meir Ben Shabat is the head of the Mashgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy in Jerusalem, he served as the head of the National Security Council between 2017-2021. Before that he was one of the top Shin Bet officers and, among other things, commanded the southern region and the national wing for countering terrorism and espionage

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2023may09 Misgav MBS ***** <WHY HAMAS NOT ATTACKING ALREADY> | Why are the terrorist organizations procrastinating in responding to the massacres in Gaza?

2023may09 Misgav MBS**** | Why are the terrorist organizations procrastinating in responding to the massacres in Gaza? | The former head of the MLA explains

In a conversation with Israel Hayom, Meir Ben Shabat explains the possible considerations of the leaders of Jihad and Hamas • Along with the possibility that the delay stems from the need to organize a response to the Israeli surprise, Ben Shabat suggests that there is "an attempt to schedule the response with activity from another arena"

The Israeli system today

9/5/2023, 09:35, Updated10/5/2023, 00:00

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The jihad terrorists who were eliminated at the beginning of the operation in Gaza . Photo: Arab Networks

The former head of the National Security Staff, Meir Ben Shabat, explained in a conversation with "Israel Hayom" the considerations behind the delay of the terrorist organizations in responding to the killing of the senior members of the Islamic Jihad today (Tuesday), early in the morning. Ben Shabat, who currently heads the "Mashgav" Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy in Jerusalem, raises several hypotheses that could explain what is going on in the minds of the senior terrorists.

"Unlike in the past, the response of the terrorist organizations from Gaza to the elimination of senior Islamic Jihad officials by Israel is being delayed," Ben Shabat opens his words and adds that this is happening "despite the angry statements from the organization's senior officials and despite the announcement issued by the "Joint HML of the factions in Gaza."

Meir Ben Shabbat, photo: Efrat Eshel

ONE. The first possibility Ben Shabbat brings up is the effect of the surprise effect created by the Israeli attack early in the morning. "The desire of the Islamic Jihad is to start the response in a surprising move," states the head of the MLA. "An anti-tank attack on the roads near the Strip, an infiltration attack or the use of a tunnel, these are actions you have prepared that require additional time to organize."

TWO. Another possibility brought up by Ben Shabat is that the decision on the nature of the response is not made by the Islamic Jihad organization alone, and perhaps even that the wait is the result of a wider preparation. Ben Shabat states that there is a possibility that there is an "effort on the part of Jihad to motivate Hamas to participate in the fighting, or to allow a greater scope of action than it currently allows", in addition, Ben Shabat does not rule out that there is "an attempt to schedule the response with activity from another arena, which requires coordination and preparations".

Chairman of the Political Bureau of Hamas, Khaled Mashal, coordination talks between the organizations can explain the delay, photo: Reuters

THREE. Another explanation, offered by the former head of the MLA, is the Jihad's desire to schedule the response to the wee hours of the night in order to respond to Israel "measure for measure" for its night attack

MORE ON ISRAEL'S ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE OF HAMAS INVASION PLANS

#3 Definition of Genocide

Genocide Convention | Definition | Excerpt from United Nations website

LINK to UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

The Genocide Convention establishes in Article I that the crime of genocide may take place in the context of an armed conflict, international or non-international, but also in the context of a peaceful situation. The latter is less common but still possible. The same article establishes the obligation of the contracting parties to prevent and to punish the crime of genocide.

The popular understanding of what constitutes genocide tends to be broader than the content of the norm under international law. Article II of the Genocide Convention contains a narrow definition of the crime of genocide, which includes two main elements:

Elements of the crime [TWO KEY ELEMENTS #1 MENTAL #2 PHYSICAL]

A mental element: the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such"; and

A physical element, which includes the following five acts, enumerated exhaustively:

Killing members of the group [SUCCESS]
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group [SUCCESS]
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part [SUCCESS]
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group [SUCCESS]
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group [no need to transfer--just kill them]

Definition of Genocide (full text)

Genocide Convention | Full Definition

Excerpt from United Nations website

LINK to UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Elements of the crime

The Genocide Convention establishes in Article I that the crime of genocide may take place in the context of an armed conflict, international or non-international, but also in the context of a peaceful situation. The latter is less common but still possible. The same article establishes the obligation of the contracting parties to prevent and to punish the crime of genocide.

The popular understanding of what constitutes genocide tends to be broader than the content of the norm under international law. Article II of the Genocide Convention contains a narrow definition of the crime of genocide, which includes two main elements:

A mental element: the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such"; and

A physical element, which includes the following five acts, enumerated exhaustively:

Killing members of the group
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

The intent is the most difficult element to determine. To constitute genocide, there must be a proven intent on the part of perpetrators to physically destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. Cultural destruction does not suffice, nor does an intention to simply disperse a group. It is this special intent, or dolus specialis, that makes the crime of genocide so unique. In addition, case law has associated intent with the existence of a State or organizational plan or policy, even if the definition of genocide in international law does not include that element.

Importantly, the victims of genocide are deliberately targeted - not randomly – because of their real or perceived membership of one of the four groups protected under the Convention (which excludes political groups, for example). This means that the target of destruction must be the group, as such, and not its members as individuals. Genocide can also be committed against only a part of the group, as long as that part is identifiable (including within a geographically limited area) and “substantial.”

source: Link to UN website - Convention on Crime of Genocide

#4 ex-UN Official on Israel-Textbook Genocide

Interviews: U.N. Official Quits Calling Israel's action "Textbook Genocide"

U.N. Official Quits over Genocide Crime

"TEXTBOOK GENOCIDE".

(Video Except 4min) Al Jazeera Staff | 2 Nov 2023

4-minute video

Former UNRWA official says Gaza turning into ‘world’s largest open-air death camp’

Video 4 minutes | AlJazeera

READ: Interview with former U.N. Official Craig Mokhiber on Gaza

Craig Mokhiber, a top United Nations human rights official who stepped down at the weekend over the organisation’s response to the war in Gaza, has called on the UN to attach the same standards to Israel as it does when assessing human rights violations in other countries around the world.

Mokhiber, who was the director of the New York office of the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, wrote in his October 28 resignation letter that Israel’s military actions in Gaza were “textbook genocide”, and accused the UN of again “failing” to act, referring to previous genocides in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Myanmar.
Mokhiber, an international human rights lawyer, had been with the UN since 1992 and worked previously as a human rights adviser in Afghanistan and the occupied Palestinian territories.
At least 8,805 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since October 7 after the armed group Hamas launched a surprise assault on Israel, killing at least 1,400 people and taking more than 200 people captive.
“The current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, rooted in an ethno-nationalist colonial-settler ideology, in continuation of decades of their systematic persecution and purging, based entirely upon their status as Arabs … leaves no room for doubt,” Mokhiber said in his letter to the UN human rights chief, Volker Turk.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent at the UN, Gabriel Elizondo, sat down with Mokhiber in New York.
He asked him about his assessment of the situation in Gaza and the chances of a two-state solution.

The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Al Jazeera: Why did you come to conclusion that the situation in Gaza amounts to a genocide?

Craig Mohkiber: Usually the most difficult part of proving genocide is intent because there has to be an intention to destroy in whole, or in part, a particular group. In this case, the intent by Israeli leaders has been so explicitly stated and publicly stated – by the prime minister, by the president, by senior cabinet ministers, by military leaders – that that is an easy case to make. It’s on the public record.

It’s important that we start using the language that the law sets out, just as you know, in recent times, every major international human rights organisation, Israeli human rights organisations, Palestinian human rights organisations, United Nations human rights mechanisms, independent mechanisms have found that the situation in Israel Palestine amounts to the crime of apartheid.

The UN needs to get used to addressing these particular violations, just as we have in other situations.

Former UNRWA official says Gaza turning into ‘world’s largest open-air death camp’

Al Jazeera: When we asked the secretary-general and his office about genocide, he won’t use that term. He says a previous secretary-general said that that is for courts to decide. Do you think that the secretary-general should start using the term ‘genocide’ when it comes to what we’re seeing in Gaza?

Mokhiber: If we can allege that we see war crimes, crimes against humanity, as we have often done, there’s no reason to exclude, where we see very strong evidence, the possibility of genocide being committed, and I think you’re going to be hearing that term more and more in connection with what we’re witnessing in Gaza.

But institutions, of course, have to go through the necessary steps before they can make that pronouncement. As of today, I am an independent citizen, not carrying the institution on my shoulders. And I feel quite confident as a human rights lawyer in saying that what I see unfolding in Gaza and beyond is genocide.Al Jazeera: [US President] Joe Biden has recently said that after this conflict is over, we need to get back to a two-state solution. In your letter, you say the mantra of a two-state solution has become, and I quote, an open joke in the corridors of the United Nations where we are sitting right now. Is it really an open joke in the corridors of the United Nations?

Mokhiber: Yes, and it has been for quite a long time, if you ask somebody in their official capacity about the two states, and they will repeat that phrase over and over again as the official position of the United Nations. Indeed, that is the official position of the United States. But nobody who follows these circumstances either from the political side or from the human rights side believes that a two-state solution is possible anymore.

There’s nothing left for a Palestinian state that would be sustainable or just or were possible in any respect, and everyone knows that.

And secondly, that solution never dealt with the problem of the fundamental human rights of Palestinians. So for example, it would leave them as second-class citizens without full human rights inside what is now Israel proper.

What will it take to launch a war crimes probe against Israel?

And so when people are not talking from official talking points, you hear increasingly about a one-state solution.

And what that means is beginning to advocate for the principle of equality of human rights instead of these old political taglines, that would mean a state in which we’ll have equal rights for Christians, Muslims and Jews, based upon human rights and based upon the rule of law. It is what we call for in every other circumstance around the world. And the question is, why is the United Nations not going for that in Israel and Palestine?

Examples of Intent (Continued)

E2. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant

YOAV GALLANT, Defense minister announces ‘complete siege’ of Gaza: No power, food or fuel

By Emanuel Fabian 9 October 2023, Times of Israel

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says he has ordered a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip, as Israel fights the Hamas terror group.

“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” Gallant says following an assessment at the IDF Southern Command in Beersheba.

“We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly,” he adds.

E3. Energy Minister Israel Katz (2023)

Israel Katz, Energy Minister | No power, water or fuel to Gaza until hostages freed, says Israel minister

US secretary of state lands in Tel Aviv after fifth night of bombardment and preparations for ground invasion

Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem, The Guardian, 12 Oct 2023

The energy minister, Israel Katz, wrote on social media that no “electrical switch will be turned on, no water hydrant will be opened and no fuel truck will enter” until the “abductees” were free. The United Nations experts have condemned the Israeli bombardment as “collective punishment”, which is a war crime.

E4. Major General (res.) Giora Eiland (GGE): prominent government spokesperson

2023oct08 | Giora's Game Plan: Total Destruction & Genocide says Major General (res.) Giora Eiland, former head of the Israel National Security Council [Interview]

Giora Eiland outlines plan to get hostages back alive [by completing a genocide and humanitarian crisis]

8 Oct, 2023 Ariel Whitman en.globes.co.il

Major General (res.) Giora Eiland, former head of the Israel National Security Council, insists Israel must create a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

"There is here a complete parallel with the Yom Kippur Way," says Major General (res.) Giora Eiland, former head of the Israel National Security Council. An intelligence surprise can always happen. If the enemy is planning something and you know and you are prepared, then they won't do what they are going to do, so there will always be an element of surprise."

"There was a huge surprise here. That's a fact," Eiland added. "But that's not the saddest fact. The bigger problem is that the army has to be built to respond even in an extreme situation of surprise, including at problematic times. Problematic timing, weekends, holidays and Saturdays. Six in the morning. Just when everyone is either on vacation or tends to be sleepy. The army should be able to respond to such a scenario routinely, and the response that the army thought it knew how to give, it thought it had a response to a surprise: very high-quality surveillance systems that detect every movement in Gaza and that has enough surrounding forces, that has control over the crossings and a strong barrier. It didn't live up to it. And when it happened, the army was unable to take control of the situation for a very long time."

"You have to know how to end this operation in a very strong way"

Eiland adds, "For the sake of comparison, I was an officer in an army outpost on the Golan Heights a short time before the Yom Kippur War. The atmosphere in the State of Israel back then was that everything was wonderful and there wouldn't be a war. They wouldn't dare to attack us. But in my outpost I behaved in exactly the opposite way. Not because I didn't believe the messages but because they weren't of interest to me."

He continued, "From my point of view I was responsible that every day, every hour and every minute, my outpost was ready to fight the best that it could. And it was of no interest to me what the likelihood was that this would happen. That's what you want to happen at the operational response level and as things look right now, and I say this cautiously, on the ground this completely the opposite of what we expected. From what I just described."

He added, "People act according to some kind of awareness that is put into their heads, and also from what you tell them. Many times there will be A, but they are aware of B - it's hard to change that. They put two things into our heads. Firstly, that our intelligence is so good, so that if there is any kind of attack we will know about it in advance, and the second thing is that the barrier we built for NIS 3 billion is so robotic and excellent that even if they tried, they would not be able to get past it. And you go to sleep in your tank or as an infantry soldier and you are 500 meters from the fence, but you say that if something happens, there will be intelligence, the barrier will help, so I don't have to worry. So instead of being in position and ready to fight at six in the morning, you are asleep and this is the result."

Will the weakness projected yesterday impact other arenas?

"Of course it will be very much felt. We don't know where this will go, but for that we also need to know how to end this campaign in a stronger way than we did in previous operations. It also requires much more far-reaching steps than Israel has ever taken. "Gaza is a state. You are fighting against a state, you are not only fighting against its army but against all of its capabilities, including its economy.

That is why Israel should completely shut down everything that happens economically in Gaza. [COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT]

Goods and gas, fuel and electricity and water and food. Not only to win the battle, but also because we have so many hostages there. If we ever want to see the hostages alive, the only way is to create a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza. When international institutions shout about a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and bodies are piling up in the hospital and they cannot treat them, we will reply, 'We have no problem solving the real problems of Gaza, but give us back our prisoners first."

Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on October 8, 2023.

https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-giora-eiland-outlines-plan-to-get-hostages-back-alive-1001459631

(GGE.1)Hamas in Tunnels, Hitting Surface to Cause Humanitarian Crisis for Civilians? Clear Intent to Kill Civilians

"All of them [Hamas] are in tunnels. So, we will have to find effective way to reach the tunnels and to make sure that people over there cannot, cannot stay or cannot exist."

—Major General (res.) Giora Eiland, former head of the Israel National Security Council | 21 Oct Briefing video

(GGE.2) Ruining Gaza and Killing Civilians is the Goal of Destroying Surface civilization. Hamas (in Tunnels) is Not the Intended Target.

“So it might create a real continuous humanitarian and economic crisis in Gaza. We will probably not stay there longer than needed. So we will withdraw to some other line. And who will take care for the situation in Gaza?

We hope that as I said Hamas will not exist. Who will take care for about two million people who might be left there?

The answer is I don't know. No one knows. And no one really wants to help.”

- Major General (res.) Eiland 8 Oct, 2023 | The Globe

—Major General (res.) Giora Eiland, former head of the Israel National Security Council | 21 Oct Briefing video

(GGE.3) Hitting Hospitals not for Hamas but for Genocide

"If we ever want to see the hostages alive, the only way is to create a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

When international institutions shout about a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and bodies are piling up in the hospital and they cannot treat them,

we will reply,

'We have no problem solving the real problems of Gaza, but give us back our prisoners first.’ "- Major General (res.) Giora Eiland, former head of the Israel National Security Council | 21 Oct Briefing video

(GGE.4) Zionist contempt for international-rules-based order and civilian life. Palestinians to Zionists are Jews to Hitler. Non-Humans

"We see a very solid anti-Israel front; anyone who still fantasizes about [achieving] overall peace with the Arabs, it's not only that it won't happen [anyway, but now] we are much more isolated…If we're talking about the international arena, the battle is not over. Arab countries: it's a lost battle [to get their support]. We're in a tough fight with the rest of the world."

"The world tells us that 'You had a terrible humanitarian disaster, but the dead cannot be brought back. We have no leverage on Hamas, but there's another humanitarian disaster in Gaza”

"There is no entity in the world, including the United States, that supports Israel's war objective - the elimination of Hamas."

–Major General (res.) Eiland 22 Oct, 2023 | Jerusalem Post

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(GGE.5) Contempt for Hostage lives & their families; Bibi Regime's Resentment about Release of Hostages

"Now let's speak about the hostages...Many of them are probably wounded not to mention some other problems and the Hamas in a quite cynical way released unconditionally two of the hostages. Not surprisingly these two women have an American passport or citizenship and they try to send some kind of implicit signal:

“look um we might release other people later but we will do it upon our decision and only whenever we decide it so if you want these people uh to survive don't carry out any ground operation because if you do then those people might be killed"

I think this creates some dilemma in front of the Israeli government but I assume that it will not cause us to give up the ground operation because it means that if we accept this kind of Hamas implicit indirect not official offer, we will be completely uh dependent on the goodwill, actually bad-will of Hamas."

Major General (res.) Giora Eiland, l | 21 Oct Briefing video

(GGE. 6)What Bibi's Regime does NOT want Release of Hostages- Eiland says as much below in Zionist-speak.

Setting Expectations: Low chance of safe return of hostages, Very high chance of a long siege on Gaza

HEADLINE: Giora Eiland: 'The chances of returning hostages are not high'

"Sinwar's... goal is to demolish the State of Israel, so even the achievement of releasing all the prisoners is not enough."

RE Hostage Release: "It's a goal that, even if you define it, the chances of fully realizing it are not high."

"Even if we tell Hamas today,

'I'm willing to release all the terrorists from Israeli prisons, including the most despicable murderers, in exchange for all the captives,' you have no deal. [Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar's euphoria is so high, that from his perspective, the goal is to demolish the State of Israel, so even the achievement of releasing all the prisoners is not enough...Let's say such a deal happens: Hamas isn't stupid – they won't release the hostages all at once, they'll stretch this over five years."

–Major General (res.) Eiland 22 Oct, 2023 | Jerusalem Post

E5. Israeli Likud Politician, Bibi-phile, former UN Ambassador Danny Danon (deport/exterminate)

05 Nov: Expel The Gazans

Likud’s Danon dismisses Sa’ar as serious rival to Netanyahu, calls to push into Rafah

Lawmaker and former UN ambassador says he supports inclusion in war cabinet of ‘anyone who calls for a more aggressive approach’, brands caution over entering Rafah a mistake

By Sam Sokol 22 March 2024

Longtime Likud lawmaker Danny Danon dismissed former colleague Gideon Sa’ar as a serious competitor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, although he said he would not object to Sa’ar’s inclusion in the war cabinet.

“Sa’ar was a member of the Likud. He left the Likud and now has his own, small, party. So I don’t think he’s competing with the Likud today,” said MK Danon, a former senior politician who was placed 15th on the party’s list in the last elections after finishing a stint as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations.

Last week, Sa’ar announced the breakup of his National Unity alliance with Benny Gantz, taking his three fellow New Hope-The United Right MKs with him and essentially stripping the party of its right-wing flank. Sa’ar also demanded a seat on the war cabinet.

While it is the prime minister’s decision to appoint anyone to the key, small decision-making body, “I would support anyone who calls for a more aggressive approach,” Danon said, arguing that delays in the IDF pushing into the southern Gaza city of Rafah “are not helpful.”

Israel argues that it is crucial to move into Rafah, where Hamas has its last major stronghold. However, the move has faced wall-to-wall international objections, including from the United States, concerned that the city is sheltering more than 1 million displaced Palestinians.

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Being so cautious “was a mistake,” Danon continued, stating that Israel should have withstood pressure from the US and other allies. “We should have continued with full power.”

Asked about Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman’s recent statement that if the right-wing camp wanted to stay in power, the only way was to find new leadership, Danon — who challenged Netanyahu for the Likud chair in 2007 and 2014 — replied that “we don’t really appreciate those who give us advice on how to conduct our affairs in the party.”

“I don’t think they really care about the future of the party. And I think today we should care less about the polls and more about what’s happening in Gaza. If Netanyahu will lead the nation to full victory, I think that’s what we expect him to do and that’s the only way for Israel to recover,” he said.

“I think Netanyahu is aware of that… He knows that he has to deliver.”

Netanyahu’s perceived credibility and popularity — already battered by nearly a year of fighting over his government’s controversial judicial overhaul — suffered heavily in the aftermath of October 7, when Hamas terrorists rampaged through southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 253 hostages.

Netanyahu has notably avoided taking responsibility for the October 7 onslaught, unlike the defense minister and many top IDF officers.

Former Likud minister and recent UN ambassador Danny Danon, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an undated photo. (Eyal Eliyahu)

In November, a survey from Bar Ilan University and polling company iPanel found that less than 4 percent of the Jewish Israeli public believed the prime minister was a reliable source of information on the war in Gaza.

The figure rose slightly to 6.63% among right-wing voters.

A Channel 12 poll aired last Tuesday evening found that a potential coalition led by Benny Gantz would secure 69 of the Knesset’s 120 seats if elections were held today, compared to a bloc led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which would win 46 seats.

When asked who they would like to see as prime minister, more respondents said Gantz over Netanyahu, by a margin of 41% to 29%.

Among the criticisms of Netanyahu has been his failure to confront his ultra-Orthodox coalition partners over the issue of the draft, especially given the army’s current manpower shortage.

Ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, men of military age have been able to avoid drafting to the IDF for decades by enrolling for study in yeshivas and obtaining repeated one-year service deferrals until they reach the age of military exemption at 26.

Asked about the issue, Danon replied that “there is a general understanding in the Likud party that something must be done after October 7 and we cannot continue with the idea of business as usual.”

“I’m also happy to hear similar voices from colleagues in Shas — Minister Arbel, Minister Margi, Minister Buso saying similar things — and I think the challenge will be to find some kind of a compromise,” he said.

“We don’t think we will be able to force Haredim to join the military — but to build tracks that will allow them to do national service or volunteer service. I think it’s more feasible and I think now is the right time to do that.”

Dismissing efforts by opposition politicians Avigdor Liberman and Yair Lapid to pass universal enlistment legislation through the Knesset without coalition support, Danon said that after a successful compromise “both sides should not be happy about everything.”

“But we need a compromise, and I think that once we reach that compromise, we will see the number going up.”

From <https://www.timesofisrael.com/likuds-danon-dismisses-saar-as-serious-rival-to-netanyahu-calls-to-push-into-rafah/>

Israel Proposes Expulsion of Hundreds of Thousands of Gazans as ‘Humanitarian Initiative’ Minister suggests dropping 'atom bomb' on Gaza

Richard Silverstein November 5, 2023

Gazans, expelled from homes, are now refugees. Israel seeks to make them twice refugees in a single month (AP)

The NY Times just reported that Israel has taken what I thought were two off-the-wall proposals to ethnically cleanse Gaza, and turned them into official proposals it submitted to its major allies, the US and the UK, among others:

Israel has quietly tried to build international support in recent weeks for the transfer of several hundred thousand civilians from Gaza to Egypt for the duration of its war in the territory, according to six senior foreign diplomats.

Israeli leaders and diplomats have privately proposed the idea to several foreign governments, framing it as a humanitarian initiative that would allow civilians to temporarily escape the perils of Gaza for refugee camps in the Sinai Desert, just across the border in neighboring Egypt.

“Humanitarian,” my ass. Any times I hear an Israeli official say that word, I know it conceals a sinister motive. Not to mention, the rejection of Israel’s proposal allows it to say to the world after the death toll spirals toward 20,000: we offered you a way out and you rejected it. Now don’t blame us for the results. That would be a deeply cynical and immoral perspective, but one characteristic of Israel.

Those countries encouraged to consider this proposal were rightly skeptical, even more than skeptical I would hope:

The suggestion was dismissed by most of Israel’s interlocutors — who include the United States and Britain — because of the risk that such a mass displacement could become permanent. These countries fear that such a development might destabilize Egypt and lock significant numbers of Palestinians out of their homeland, according to the diplomats, who spoke anonymously in order to discuss a sensitive matter more freely.

image: Two boys fleeing their homes under Israeli threat of attack

1-million Palestinian refugees were expelled from Israel during the Nakba. Only a few hundred at most returned. The post-1948 Infiltrator Law declared that the returnees could be shot, and many were.

The reporters attribution for his story is “six foreign diplomats.” Clearly they are the ambassadors of six countries whose governments Israel approached in its campaign for support. These governments were so alarmed, they all decided together to fire a shot across Israel’s bow by leaking it to the Times. That will–Biden, Blinken and others hope–send the Israeli officials peddling a plan for ethnic cleansing tied up in a bow to look like a ‘humanitarian’ birthday gift, scurrying back to their official lairs.

Some of Bibi’s close political allies have offered similar proposals which have the false ring of sincerity:

Danny Danon…a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, said he supported evacuating Gazan civilians to give Israel more room to maneuver during its ground invasion of Gaza, and to move civilians out of harm’s way.

“We’re trying to lower the level of casualties for our troops and for the civilians,” Mr. Danon said…”We expect not only the Egyptians, but the entire international community to make a genuine effort to support and accept the residents of Gaza.”

That phrase–we Israelis “expect” the world to do this or that–it’s so damn Israeli. We, a country of 9-million people, expect our Arab neighbors and the greatest superpower in the world, to make the genocidal process of war in Gaza more convenient for us.

2023nov05 NYT | Israel Quietly Pushed for Egypt to Admit Large Numbers of Gazans

The Israeli government has not publicly called for large numbers of Gazans to move to Egypt. But in private, diplomats say, it has pushed for just that — augmenting Palestinian fears of a permanent expulsion.

By Patrick Kingsley, the Jerusalem bureau chief, spoke to diplomats about Israel’s secret push for Egypt to admit hundreds of thousands of Gazans.

Nov. 5, 2023 [excerpt from nytimes]

Israel has quietly tried to build international support in recent weeks for the transfer of several hundred thousand civilians from Gaza to Egypt for the duration of its war in the territory, according to six senior foreign diplomats.

Israeli leaders and diplomats have privately proposed the idea to several foreign governments, framing it as a humanitarian initiative that would allow civilians to temporarily escape the perils of Gaza for refugee camps in the Sinai Desert, just across the border in neighboring Egypt.

Danny Danon, a lawmaker from Mr. Netanyahu’s Likud party and a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, said he supported evacuating Gazan civilians to give Israel more room to maneuver during its ground invasion of Gaza, and to move civilians out of harm’s way.

“We’re trying to lower the level of casualties for our troops and for the civilians,” Mr. Danon said in a phone interview. “We expect not only the Egyptians, but the entire international community to make a genuine effort to support and accept the residents of Gaza.”

Mr. Danon added that the idea would need the agreement of the Egyptian government, which controls Gaza’s southern border. However, Mr. Danon is not a member of the government and could not confirm whether Israel had been pushing foreign governments to back such a plan.

Israel’s diplomatic push has added to a growing sense of uncertainty about what will happen if Israel takes control over parts or all of Gaza, even temporarily, at the end of its military operations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/world/middleeast/israel-egypt-gaza.html

Jan 3, 2024 #palkisharma #vantageonfirstpost #firstpost

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