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A solution to Israel's problems (in the opinion of some of their leaders) is not a two state solution, but instead to eradicate Palestine. Palestine are it's people, if you can reduce the number of people then you reduce Palestine... this can be done by taking their land and forcing them to not be in Israel.
But also... if you are Israel and can close every border to Israel, and force Egypt to open their border, and apply an enormous military push from the North you can turn the entirety of the population of Gaza in a moving refugee mass of 2 million people who will be forced by geography and the guns to move into Egypt.
Israel does not have to solve for a 2 state solution if they can force Palestinian people, all Palestinian people, to get off their land and become another (Muslim) countries problem.
This, this is the goal of this entire operation.
They are not seeking to find and capture 20k Hamas terrorists, they are seeking to move 2 million people into Egypt... but as this goal is super long-term, they'll accept moving 1 million people further South and increasing the pressure on all 2 million even more.
This is why I'm so appalled, on top of decades of apartheid we now have blatant ethnic cleansing.
It's also why I'm sickened by our govt, because we're busy sending more military, and we're also urging Egypt to open their border... we are fully complicit in ethnic cleansing in this day and age. We can't hide behind "our great-grandfathers did that stuff and it was not us and we care more" when we're actively participating in ethnic cleansing.
So is this push to move people out of Northern Gaza in order for Israel to attack with impunity whilst saying that the only people there are going to be Hamas or is it a precursor to a land grab or something else?