Likud bloc = Republican Party, as full partner (see below)
BLUF: "On Monday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held a meeting of his Likud bloc and told the other far right politicians there that he was still working on the “voluntary” immigration of Gaza’s inhabitants to other countries. He said the only problem is finding countries willing to absorb them. A Likud member of parliament concurred, saying that such plans were already accepted by the Canadian immigration minister and by US presidential candidate Nikki Haley. So reports al-Ghad from Yisrael Ha-Yom."
So what does Haley have to say?
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/1703191310-nikki-haley-says-palestinians-in-gaza-should-resettle-in-pro-hamas-countries
"The Palestinians should have gone to the Rafah crossing and Egypt would have taken care of them. But I have always said that what the Palestinians need is to move to pro-Hamas countries such as Qatar, Iran and Turkey, she said.”
This helps explain why Haley has Charles Koch’s support, with him and his network having done so much to suppress BDS in the US through one of his front groups, ALEC (see movie “Boycott), in addition to the “Koch Military-Surveillance-Intell Industrial Complex” connection to Israel, as described below, and also why Koch joined up with Peter Thiel, Sheldon Adelson, Steve Bannon and the Mercers to make Trump POTUS in 2016:
https://jewishinsider.com/2019/02/will-kochs-shift-include-israel/
Will the Koch’s ‘shift’ include Israel?
February 19, 2019
"Eli Groner, who most recently served as director general of the Israeli prime minister’s office under Benjamin Netanyahu, has joined Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) as their Israel-based managing director. KDT is a subsidiary of Koch Industries and is run by Charles Koch’s son Chase, whom Groner will be reporting to in his new position."
https://circuit.news/2022/11/06/kochs-israeli-investment-chief-aims-to-disrupt-venture-capital-funding/
"Now 52, he spent three years as a top aide to then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, serving as director-general of the Prime Minister’s Office. Any political savvy he gained in government has been useful in representing Koch Industries, whose owners are among the biggest contributors to right-wing causes in the U.S. . . . When it first funded Insightec, KDT didn’t have an office in Israel. On a visit to meet industry players, company executives had an encounter with Groner, fresh out of the Prime Minister’s Office, who offered a geopolitical overview of Israel and the region. “We really connected on vision and values,” Groner said. “Six months later I got a formal offer to join KDT and open up the Israel office.”
. . .
"In the semiconductor field, KDT led two investment rounds for a total of $217 million in Vayyar, a developer of radar imaging technology for sensors used in a variety of industries. KDT has also invested in cybersecurity startups Cyrebro, where it led a $40 million funding round, and OneLayer, in which it made an equity investment of $6.5 million; KDT led a $45 million investment round in the drone startup Percepto, and invested in the agtech firm Greeneye Technology, which uses AI and deep learning technologies for the selective spraying of pesticides. KDT’s first exit was the sale of Israeli software firm DeepCube to Nasdaq-traded Nano Dimension Ltd for $70 million, according to Crunchbase data.”
And who else is Koch hooked up with of the Israeli connected fascists?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sheldon-adelson-koch-brothers_n_7563866
Sheldon Adelson And The Koch Brothers Are Closer Than Ever
Jun 14, 2015, 10:16 PM EDT
Updated Dec 6, 2017
https://about.bgov.com/news/adelson-thiel-among-givers-to-gop-group-forced-to-reveal-donors-2/
"Adelson, Thiel Among Givers to GOP Group Forced to Reveal Donors
October 29, 2019 1:27 PM
"PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and casino magnate Sheldon Adelson were among the big funders of a GOP allied nonprofit group whose names were disclosed following court challenges to lift the cloak of secrecy surrounding dark money.
"Their donations to the nonprofit, Americans for Job Security, (Koch Network) were revealed after a long court battle and a settlement with the Federal Election Commission."
We know Ron DeSantis’s position on Palestinians, to the “right” of both Haley and Netanyahu:
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/648607-ron-desantis-palestinian-hamas/
Ron DeSantis claims Palestinian casualties are ‘Hamas’ fault’
"During a national town hall Tuesday, Ron DeSantis predictably diverged from President Joe Biden’s take that Israel is losing support globally because "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “doesn’t want a two-state solution.”
"Rather, DeSantis rests blame with global “antisemitism” and dismisses objections to Israeli war strategy and the killing of civilians as “Hamas’ fault.”
And what about the other leg of the US Likud bloc, Trump? No need for speculation, he has a track record:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/959789/israel-right-defend-itself-donald-trump-hamas-palestine-jerusalem-embassy-opens
Donald Trump blames HAMAS for Gaza deathsDONALD Trump has blamed Palestinian group Hamas for the “tragic deaths” of almost 60 people who were killed in violent clashes, as he relocated the Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
By Caitlin Doherty 03:14, Tue, May 15, 2018 | UPDATED: 08:16, Tue, May 15, 2018Trump congratulates Israel as US opens embassy in Jerusalem
Monday was the deadliest day in the Gaza since 2014, as 59 people were killed in bloody protests.
Trump’s decision to move the embassy broke the American policy of refraining from establishing embassies in contested cities until a peace deal has been reached.
Referring to the group that governs Gaza, the President’s press secretary, Raj Shah, said: “The responsibility for these tragic deaths rests squarely with Hamas.
“We believe that Hamas as an organisation is engaged in cynical action that is leading to these deaths.GETTY
Trump said Hamas was to blame for Gaza violence on Monday
“Israel has the right to defend itself.”
This is not the first time the Trump administration has refused to condemn violence in the area.Why would the Israeli Fascist-Right miss “Neoconservatives” when they have these even more zealous loyalist “Traditional Conservative Zionists” in their place?
In April, Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo said that the US: “Does believe the Israeli’s have the right to defend themselves and we’re fully supportive of that.”
Almost 40 Palestinians were killed that month around Gaza.
The President’s comments have been slammed by human rights groups.
Hussar Zomlot, the top Palestinian representative to the United States told the Washington Post that Trump has given Israel “license to kill.
He continued: “The US silence is license to kill for Israel, and Israel is taking this license to her and implementing it in full.
“Failing to speak up is a dent in the moral history of this country.” (Stop)
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FM: John Whitbeck
In his article transmitted below, Juan Cole notes that, on Christmas Day, Prime Minister Netanyahu told a meeting of his Likud bloc "that he was still working on the 'voluntary' immigration of Gaza's inhabitants to other countries."
Governments of the Global West may choose to continue to play blind, deaf and dumb as to what "conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities" the Israeli government is seeking to create, but the Israeli government is not being shy about its intention, which is the only intention that can make sense of its actions in Gaza since October 7.
https://www.juancole.com/2023/12/netanyahu-ethnically-palestinians.html
Netanyahu Advocates Ethnically Cleansing Palestinians of Gaza: Believe him the First Time Juan Cole 12/26/2023
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The extremist, fascist government of Binyamin Netanyahu continues to press its monstrous, illegal and most of all completely implausible plan to push the 2.2 million Palestinians of Gaza out of the Strip into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula or into other Arab countries. Netanyahu also pledged to continue the high-intensity campaign against the people of Gaza.
This blatant project of ethnic cleansing recalls the ways in which the dictators of the 1930s and 1940s moved around entire ethnic groups. Stalin displaced the Soviet Koreans to Uzbekistan or Siberia. I met some of their descendants in Tashkent in the mid-1990s. The exile of the Crimean Tartars is recognized by Ukraine as a war crime. Hundreds of thousands died in these paroxysms of ethnic cleansing. Hitler ethnically cleansed millions, as well, and at the end of the war there were 11 million displaced persons in Europe, 8 million in Germany.
After the end of WW II, world authorities attempted to forestall such atrocities, creating or strengthening International Humanitarian Law. In the Rome Statute, which went into effect in 2002 and has been signed by 124 countries, one of the offenses constituting “Crimes Against Humanity” is:
“Deportation or forcible transfer of population” ( Rome Statute Art. 7 d ). The heinous character of these plans of the Israeli far right is not masked by the phrase “voluntary” transfer. Helpless Palestinians made homeless and denied food and water by the Israeli authorities can no more assent to exile from their homeland of millennia than an enslaved women can assent to sex with her master.
On Monday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held a meeting of his Likud bloc and told the other far right politicians there that he was still working on the “voluntary” immigration of Gaza’s inhabitants to other countries. He said the only problem is finding countries willing to absorb them. A Likud member of parliament concurred, saying that such plans were already accepted by the Canadian immigration minister and by US presidential candidate Nikki Haley. So reports al-Ghad from Yisrael Ha-Yom.
For its part, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry was scathing about Netanyahu’s remarks, saying they were “a slap in the face to all the countries that supported Israel in its war against our people, and still do, under the pretext of self-defense, especially since it reveals a malicious conspiracy hatched by the ruling Israeli right against our people with the aim of liquidating their cause and existence.” That Netanyahu is talking in this desperate way, the ministry said, is a clear sign that Israel has failed in its stated war aims.
That is, the Palestine Authority correctly recognized that Netanyahu is using revenge on Hamas as a cover story, and that the actual purpose of his total war on the civilians of Gaza is to ethnically cleanse them.
The Foreign Ministry called on other countries roundly to condemn Netanyahu’s grotesque remarks.
No one is going to take the Palestinians off the Israeli prime minister’s hands. Egypt roundly rebuffed any such suggestion. In fact, the Egyptians have warned of a severe rupture in ties with Cairo if Israel tries to push the Palestinians south into the Sinai. So reported a prominent Egyptian television anchor.
Meanwhile Al-`Arabi al-Jadid reported yesterday that the Egyptian military is bulking up the number of troops it has stationed near the Rafah Crossing from Gaza into the Sinai. It is also building more barriers and watchtowers. This activity reflects Egyptian anxieties as the Israeli military campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza stretches south to Rafah, raising the specter of mass displacement. Apparently an unusual number of Palestinians are approaching Egyptian border authorities pleading for asylum.
The government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has spent a decade attempting to wipe out the Muslim Brotherhood from Egypt, and has also repeatedly fought heavy battles to assert Cairo’s authority in the Sinai Peninsula, the people of which often feel badly treated by the government. The prospect of having 2.2 million angry, hungry and desperate Palestinians, many of them essentially Muslim Brothers, plopped into a place famed for its lawless smuggling and terrorism networks is a horror show for the Egyptian authorities. Egypt is a country of over 100 million people and its military is ranked 14 out of 145 countries in the global firepower review. If its officer corps doesn’t want that influx of Palestinians, it won’t happen. In some past incidents Egyptian troops have simply shot down Palestinians attempting to enter Egypt.
Netanyahu’s plans to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians of Gaza, which have been echoed by many other Israeli politicians, including cabinet members, aren’t just plans to commit crimes against humanity. They are also highly implausible fantasies. The hard line, fascist government that Netanyahu has cobbled together dreams big, but just isn’t that powerful in the real world, and nor does the Biden administration want to see the Palestinians ethnically cleansed. Though, if it somehow did happen, no doubt Washington would put lipstick on that pig for Israel’s sake, as well.