Occupation of Gaza: Ethnic Cleansing in an Updated Version

Dr. Mazen Al-Ramdhani: The policy of displacement and total destruction aims to pave the way for the cancellation of the Arab identity of Gaza and to work on its Judaization as is happening in Jerusalem.

Shadi Al-Sharfa: The adoption of the "gradual occupation" plan for the Gaza Strip is a step within a deeper project to reshape geography and demographics.

Dr. Thaer Abu Ras: There are several risks to the occupation of the Strip, the most prominent of which is the confinement of all its residents to the south of the Mawasi, which practically means complete ethnic cleansing of the north.

Ismail Muslimani: The proposed scenarios include starting to control the eastern and northern border strip and then cutting the Strip into isolated areas.

Wadi Abu Nasar: There are persistent attempts to displace the residents of the Gaza Strip or push them to leave, and this may also apply to the West Bank.

The adoption of the Israeli Security Cabinet's "Kabinett" plan for the "gradual occupation" of the Gaza Strip reflects a shift in the nature of the aggression that has been ongoing for nearly two years, and opens the door wide to a more bloody phase against unarmed civilians. While this approach, although it seems purely a military escalation, carries in its essence political dimensions related to the implementation of a pre-prepared racist plan to empty the Gaza Strip of its inhabitants through extermination and forced displacement, as part of a deeper project to reshape the geography and demographics of the Strip.

Writers and analysts, in separate discussions with "Y", pointed out that "this path raises real fears of reproducing scenarios of forced displacement similar to what happened in the Srebrenica genocide, when the population was stripped of their means of defense before being left to their fate, noting that since the announcement of the gradual occupation, features of a plan that exceeds the limits of Gaza as a battlefield to being a laboratory for applying old-new policies aimed at controlling the land while reducing the Palestinian presence by confining it to crowded pockets or pushing it outside the borders are emerging."

They warned that "this racist thinking interacts with an extended Israeli policy, which is the policy of buying time as a means to achieve the process of Judaizing Palestine, and then imposing the status quo on the Arabs, and what helps this is the experience of American support for the Judaization of Jerusalem through the transfer of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem."

Erasing Palestinians to Achieve Israel's Expansionist Goals

Dr. Mazen Al-Ramdhani, Professor of Political Science/International Politics and Futures Studies, Head of the Futures Studies Unit at the Global Institute for Arab Renewal, stated: "Israel is one of the regional powers whose projects involve the erasure of Palestinians and Arabs, as an identity and future, as a means to achieve its expansionist goals."

He pointed out that "the experience since 1948 indicates that Israeli behavioral patterns, perhaps the latest of which is what is happening in Gaza with programmed destruction and widespread killing of innocent civilians, in addition to its inclination towards occupation, these patterns are equivalent to the behavioral patterns of the imperial state, which is no longer only linked to direct military control tools, but has also become associated with indirect subjugation mechanisms, economically, culturally, and then politically."

Al-Ramdhani added: "All these mechanisms, in both types, erase those values that secure humanity for the individual, and for states their liberation, independence, and civilizational advancement."

Al-Ramdhani emphasized that "the policy of displacement and total destruction resulting from the Israeli aggression on Gaza, and the claim that Israeli control remains extended over time, is intended to pave the way for the cancellation of the Arab identity of Gaza, and then its complete Judaization later as is happening with Jerusalem. The question is: Why is there a desire to Judaize Arab Palestinian lands?"

He believes that "Talmudic Jewish thought provides an answer to the above question. This thought links place and time to the role of the Jewish Zionist, as it affirms that "the Jewish Zionist who denies the other and recognizes only himself wants the place for himself alone, meaning he wants the land, and he also wants the time, meaning he wants to seize history and monopolize it... As for the other, who is meant to be the Arab, he must be expelled, otherwise his fate will be death and subjugation."

Al-Ramdhani clarified that "this racist thinking interacts with an