Even Le Monde Diplomatique calls the ‘Palestinian question’.
1. “In the past few months, conferences have been held in Israel advocating resettlement (especially of northern Gaza) as soon as the territory is ‘cleaned up.”
2. The ‘Order and Clean-up’ programme “involves the ‘total defeat’ of Hamas, then a process of ‘deradicalisation’; the idea is that evacuating the 300,000 Palestinians still living north of the Netzarim corridor will enable the IDF to establish an unbreakable siege of Hamas in this area, and orders to this effect were issued on 6 October this year. A second stage will trap Palestinian fighters in ‘closed military zones’, forcing them to surrender or starve to death, without regard for any hostages who might be held there. This strategy is already in place at the Jabaliya camp, which has been under siege since 12 October.”
3. “On 3 July the government approved the seizure of nearly 13 sq km of land in the Jordan valley, the largest confiscation of land in the West Bank since 1993.”
Most of article is not about how Israel is working on ‘settling the Palestinian question once and for all.’
I don’t believe that Israel will stop before dispossessing the Palestinians of all the land they still own or inhabit. Although resistance will continue, Israel will carry on with its colonial project to the end and through different means and the balances of forces regionally and internationally will, for the foreseeable future, allow it to do so.
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