Scoop: Israel seeks U.S. help on deals to move Palestinians out of Gaza

[Right_in_Virginia]

Scoop: Israel seeks U.S. help on deals to move Palestinians out of Gaza
Axios, Jul 18, 2025

The director of Israel's Mossad spy agency visited Washington this week seeking U.S. help in convincing countries to take hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza, two sources with knowledge of issue tell Axios.

The spy chief, David Barnea, told White House envoy Steve Witkoff that Israel has been speaking in particular with Ethiopia, Indonesia and Libya.
Why it matters: The Israeli government's goal of removing much of Gaza's population is hugely controversial. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government claims such a "relocation" would be "voluntary," U.S. and Israeli legal experts have labeled it a war crime.

Behind the scenes: In their meeting earlier this week, Barnea told Witkoff that Ethiopia, Indonesia and Libya had expressed openness to receiving large numbers of Palestinians from Gaza, the two source say.

* Barnea suggested that the U.S. offer incentives to those countries and help Israel convince them.
* Witkoff was non-committal, and it's not clear if the U.S. will actively weigh in on this issue, one source said.
* The White House, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office, and the foreign ministries of Ethiopia, Indonesia and Libya did not respond to requests for comment prior to publication.


More:  https://www.axios.com/2025/07/18/israel-send-palestinians-gaza-indonesia-ethiopia

[Right_in_Virginia]

FTA:

big picture: Nearly every Palestinian in Gaza has been displaced during the war, often multiple times. Most buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed.

* Israel has been developing a plan for moving all two million residents of the enclave to a small "humanitarian zone" near the border with Egypt.

* That plan has sparked concerns in Egypt and many Western countries that Israel is preparing for the mass displacement of Palestinians out of Gaza, something Netanyahu's ultranationalist coalition partners and many inside his own party have been pushing for years.

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[Right_in_Virginia]

Can we call it ethnic cleansing yet?

[Fishrrman]

RinVa asks:
"Can we call it ethnic cleansing yet?"

You're not going to like this post.

I have no problems with the concept of "ethnic cleansing", depending on how it's applied.

Libya or Indonesia would be good choices to which to ship out the palis, as they're both muslim countries.

Ethiopia ... isn't a large part of that Christian? They probably have all the muzzies they need.

I sense we might need use a little "ethnic cleansing" right here at home. Send all the muslims back to "dar al islam".

I TOLD YOU that you weren't going to like this post...

[Right_in_Virginia]

RinVa asks:
"Can we call it ethnic cleansing yet?"

You're not going to like this post.

I have no problems with the concept of "ethnic cleansing", depending on how it's applied.

Libya or Indonesia would be good choices to which to ship out the palis, as they're both muslim countries.

Sounds like your answer to my question is "yes"  @Fishrrman   Thank you for your candor.

[Timber Rattler]

Can we call it ethnic cleansing yet?

It was Trump's idea.

Trump doubles down on plan to empty Gaza. This is what he has said and what’s at stake

https://apnews.com/article/trump-gaza-plan-palestinians-israel-3f12eb51869da2221afbb22b0bcf47ba

Behind U.S. President Donald Trump’s vows to turn Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” lies a plan to forcibly drive a population from its land, rights groups say, warning it could be a war crime under international law.

Trump doubled down this week on his vows to empty Gaza permanently of its more than 2 million Palestinians, saying they would not be allowed to return and suggesting at one point he might force Egypt and Jordan to take them in by threatening to cut off U.S. aid.

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Trump has billed the plan as being for the Palestinians’ own benefit after Israel’s 16-month campaign demolished entire neighborhoods and left much of Gaza unlivable. In its place, Trump has promised them a “beautiful new land” elsewhere.

The United States would then take over the territory and rebuild it as a “Riviera” for the “world’s people.”

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