#documentary / On The previous Israeli attempt to encourage "voluntary emigration" of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip
The proposals being heard against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Gaza, to transfer the residents of the Strip to other countries, are not new. Dr. Amri Shapiro Ravi, a historian of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, examined in his research a similar attempt made by the Israeli government immediately after the Six Day War.
In the months after the Six Day War, the Committee for Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories drafted a document that was meant to outline the lines of action for controlling the conquered territories. The first and most important paragraph defined in the draft document: "A policy aimed at the departure of a maximum number of Arabs from the held territories".
From then on, Israel consistently dealt with the question of how to encourage the Palestinian residents of the territories to leave the West Bank and the Gaza Strip - without provoking international criticism against it. Unlike the West Bank, where about a quarter of the residents left immediately after the war, almost no resident left the Gaza Strip.
Initially, Israel hoped that a political agreement would solve the refugee problem and determine in an orderly manner the fate of the Gaza Strip and its residents. As time passed, when it was understood that a political agreement and a solution to the refugee problem were not on the horizon - Israel moved to a policy of encouraging emigration. It was a quiet policy aimed at pushing people to leave the Gaza Strip individually - whether by providing incentives to leave or pushing them to seek a better life by deliberately maintaining a low standard of living in the Strip. At the same time, Israeli representatives made efforts to reach agreements with foreign countries - including in Latin America - that would be willing to absorb Palestinian refugees for a fee.
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Source: Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research.
January 2024.
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Given the UK was the main player at the time of the creation if Israel and then abandoned Arabs to their fate when the going got tough, the UN should decree that as the UK considers the current actions by Israel as self defence and therefore acceptable to kill over 23000 people, the remaining ARABS should be given safe sanctury in the UK.
THe UK government would soon change their tone.
This however is not the point, given that it is ILLEGAL to force people from their homeland, which is what is going to happen here, Israel wants control of security, their lives will be hell not just at the hands of the IDF et al but settlers who will attack them (like they are doing in the West Bank)
Something has to convince the UK government to follow the US line and express more and more concern about the actions in Gaza AND the west bank and find another solution, that does NOT involve Hamas or actually the current hard line Isreali regime as there HAS to be changes on both sides to bring about a better solution.
@zleap of course … the illegality of Israel’s behavior as an occupier, from the beginning, is the main issue for me. It begins in 1948 in fact. Israel occupied and immediately annexed territory designated by the UN partition decision to a Palestinian state. The Israeli excuse is that the Arabs and Palestinians rejected the partition, and started a war. It’s still illegal, afaik, but never discussed, since there’s some “consensus” around the 1967 borders. But to be honest with their “mandate” (whitewashed colonialism) returned to the UN, and the British actively sabotaging the work of the UNPC (United Nations Palestine Commission), there’s so much the UK needs to answer for.
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