Somalia Says Israel Plans Gaza Displacement. Where Have We Heard This Before?
Somalia's president alleges Israel is finalizing plans to depopulate Gaza, moving its residents to Somaliland. This accusation, initially reported by The New Arab, surfaces while the international community wrings its hands over forced displacement as a 'war crime.' One might recall similar proposals for ethnic cleansing floating around Israeli think tanks and political circles since October 7th,
including ideas to send Gazans to the Sinai Peninsula. The pattern is, depressingly, entirely consistent with a long-standing aspiration for a Greater Israel—free of inconvenient Palestinians. From the 1948 Nakba to the ongoing annexation of the West Bank, this isn't innovation; it's just a new target for 'population transfer.' How many times must a state declare its intent for ethnic cleansing
before it's taken seriously, rather than dismissed as a 'far-right fringe' proposal?