Israel Can’t Fly Everyone Out? Who Knew Genocides Had Exit Strategies?
Al Jazeera's opinion piece on Israel's 'paid forced deportation flights' from Gaza highlights what many call ethnic cleansing. This isn't groundbreaking news for anyone familiar with the Nakba in 1948, or the 1967 expulsions. It merely packages forced displacement with a shiny, new, logistical impossibility argument. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has, according to OpenSecrets.org,
received over $10,000 from pro-Israel PACs over his career, and the Biden administration continues to okay billions in military aid, like the recent $14.3 billion package passed by the House, which included HR 815, facilitating continued arms shipments. How many times will we pretend to be surprised when the playbook repeats? Critics, if any were genuinely listened to, would point out this isn't
about 'flights to South Africa' but a persistent, decades-long project of displacement. The idea that Israel would generously pay to expel Palestinians, rather than just bomb them out, is a performative distraction for an international community that has consistently failed to apply its own humanitarian laws. It appears the only 'solution' consistently put forward by Israeli leadership for
Palestinians is 'elsewhere,' a concept seemingly endorsed by the world's most powerful nations through their sustained military and financial support.