A brief history of Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, 1890-present.
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Yesterday, on October 24, 2023, Israel's plans to expel Gaza's Palestinian population to Sinai, Egypt were leaked.
Not surprisingly, this plan has a decades long history and dates to at least 2004, if not earlier.
source: . madamasr.com/en/2023/10/25/…
Between Oct 7, 2023-present, Israel has displaced ~1.4 million Palestinians in Gaza through its campaign of indiscriminate bombing.
source: .reliefweb.int/report/occupie…
In May 2023, 178 Palestinian Bedouins were forced out of Ein Samiya (West Bank) after Israel repeatedly demolished their homes, threatened to destroy their only school & after their grazing land was taken by settlement expansion & b/c of settler violence: ochaopt.org/content/ras-al…
In July 2022, the 100-person community in Ras a-Tin (WB) was pushed after a Jewish settler outpost was established 2km away. Since then, members of the Palestinian community have suffered from verbal abuse, harassment, theft & vandalism of property. btselem.org/settler_violen…
Between Aug 2022- August 2023, the 88-person community in al-Qabun was pushed out by Israeli Jewish settler violence & assaults by the Israeli army
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In July 2020, Israel made 70 Palestinians homeless in Khirbet Humsa for the 6th time. Israeli forces loaded the residents' personal belongings and dropped them off 7 miles away.
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In 2019, 2 groups of Palestinian families near the Taybeh junction were pushed out:
Between June 1967 - 2016, Israel revoked the residency status--and thus the right to live in Jerusalem (or anywhere else in Israel) -- of at least 14,595 Palestinians from East Jerusalem in what amounts to "forcible transfers," according to @hrw. source: hrw.org/news/2017/08/0…
Between 1968 -1971, Israel expelled 615 Gazan residents.
Between, 1971-1988, Israel expelled another 90 Palestinains from Gaza.
Source: Sara Roy, The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development, p.110
In 1967, Israel expelled 250K-325K Palestinians, including from Imwas, Yalo, Bayt Nuba, Surit, Beit Awwa, Beit Mirsem, Shuyukh, Jiftlik, Agarith & Huseirat.
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In 1948, Zionist forces expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes.
They also refused to allow ~750,000 Palestinians who were made refugees during the war back to their homes.
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B/w 1891-1948, most Zionist leaders, inc. Theodor Herzl, Ahad Ha'am, Israel Zangwill, Arthur Rupin, M. Smilansky, L. Motzkin, Yoseph Weitz, Chaim Weizmann, M. Usshishkin, D. Ben Gurion, Moshe Shertok, thought it would be required to expel the Palestinians:
Here are some additional screenshots if the statements of Zionist leaders from 1890-1948.
And you wonder why so many people think Zionism was such a problematic, dare I say, racist idea?
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This ethnic cleansing is continuing in real time in the West Bank:
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