Experts and humanitarian officials were shocked at the Biden plan to construct a pier in Gaza to off-load food and supplies to Gaza, when there are already seven land routes into Gaza and hundreds of trucks full of food waiting at the closed gates.
Israel's Kan broadcaster reported Netanyahu proposed to use the US-built pier to off-load all the Palestinian people from Gaza. The proposal was presented by Netanyahu at a special meeting of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. It will be supported in the western media as a 'humanitarian evacuation' and the international community will play follow-the-leader behind Biden.
"The port can facilitate the exit of the Palestinians from Gaza," Netanyahu was quoted as saying. "There is no obstacle to the Palestinians leaving the Gaza Strip, except for the unwillingness of other countries to accept them."
According to Biden, the pier will allow "a massive increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza every day." He seems not to have asked why the seven gates are not opened by Israel to allow the existing aid to enter, rather than wait two months to build a pier.
Mustafa Barghouti, the Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI), said in a post on X, "Netanyahu revealed his intentions towards the American port in Gaza in his presentation at Israeli Knesset security committee saying that the port can be used to transfer Palestinians out of Gaza. He never gave up his dream of a complete ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza."
Israel has a long-standing policy that any Palestinian leaving the occupation will never be able to return. This policy is to protect Israel from the return of millions of Palestinians living in exile, having been forced from their homeland at gun point by the Israeli army and Israeli armed militias over decades.
The end game
US House Speaker Mike Johnson says he plans to invite Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress. Johnson is a key supporter of President Donald Trump in his bid to be elected in November. Trump and Netanyahu have worked closely together, and it has been said no US President in history has done more for Israel than Trump. A Trump presidency in 2025 looks like winning the Jack-Pot in the eyes of Netanyahu.
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