Even the displacement of the people of the Gaza Strip will not solve Israel's existential crisis
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Even the displacement of the people of the Gaza Strip will not solve Israel's existential crisis

Discussion about the Israeli plan to forcibly or voluntarily displace the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip, along with threats to displace the residents of the West Bank, has become a definitive matter, as if Netanyahu took the place of the Almighty, saying "be" and it is. Although the displacement of Palestinians has been a strategic goal of the Zionist movement since its inception—where the presence of millions of Palestinians in their land hinders the establishment of a Jewish state—this goal became more certain with the genocide war and Trump's statements about the displacement of Gaza's residents. Leaders of countries, international organizations, and political and strategic analysts all talk about Israel's determination to displace the residents of the Gaza Strip, and I have written about this subject since the beginning of the war.

However, despite the fact that the existence of approximately 7 million Palestinians on Palestinian land constitutes an existential threat to the entity, and despite the genuine Zionist and American will to displace them, many questions and significant, complex challenges remain regarding the implementation of this plan. Is it practically possible, in the foreseeable future, to displace all the residents of the Strip and the West Bank? Will displacing the residents of Gaza, for example, end the war and the conflict, and establish Greater Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates as the Zionist right wishes?
Let us think calmly, away from Netanyahu’s media exaggeration and the Jewish right regarding Israel's superhuman capabilities and that it can do whatever it wants, about the rationality and realism of displacing more than two million Palestinians and the ability of Israel and Washington to execute it unilaterally.

Yes, Israel has managed to destroy the majority of the Gaza Strip and the military capabilities of Hamas, killing around a quarter of a million, and it can occupy the city of Gaza and empty all areas north of the Wadi Gaza of their residents as it stated at the beginning of the war. It can gather the majority of the population in an area that does not exceed 25% of the southern Strip and can starve the people of Gaza, as has indeed happened, to the point that many residents of the Strip have come to accept the idea of displacement to any place. But the problem does not only lie here; it goes beyond that.
Will any country or countries accept to host hundreds of thousands of Palestinians on their territories, thus becoming complicit in the genocide and ethnic cleansing? Even if, for example, this were implemented in Sinai, would the conflict with the Palestinians end simply by displacing the residents of Gaza? Wherever they go, they will remain Palestinians and part of the Palestinian people. And what about the approximately 5 million steadfast Palestinians within the Green Line, the West Bank, and Jerusalem?

Here, we must remember that during the 1948 war or the Nakba, 75% of the Palestinians were displaced, yet the contemporary Palestinian revolution was ignited by displaced Palestinians in the diaspora. Even after the occupation of the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip in the June 67 war, the conflict has continued, and Israel continues to suffer from its existential crisis. Even with all its military capabilities, signing peace agreements with Arab countries, and all its rampages in Palestine and abroad—with several wars launched against Gaza and beyond, the latest being the current war—its crisis is exacerbating amidst the exposure of its false narrative and its unveiling before the world as a racist criminal state that is outside international law and surrounded by the hatred of the majority of the world’s peoples. Additionally, there is increasing international recognition of the Palestinian people's right to an independent state on their land or part of it.

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