On a break from the genocide, Israel focuses on ethnic cleansing | The busy west coast

On Sunday, February 2nd, Israel scheduled tanks on the occupied west coast For the first time in more than two decades. It was the last in a series of Bellicose Stros who escalated in January, in a tandem with the implementation of a strenuous dedication agreement in Gaza’s belt.

Of course, inherently long -term nature of Israel genocidal policy In Gaza means that every truce is inevitably temporary. In a 15-month attack on the Palestinian enclave, which began in October 2023, the Israeli army was officially killed at least 48,365 Palestinians, most of them women and children-like a true number of deaths undoubtedly far more. Most Gaza residents are displaced by Israeli attack, many of which are repeatedly.

Now, Times of Israel reports that more than 40,100 Palestinians are in the West Coast Refugee Camps like Jenin “They have escaped from their homes” from January 21, which is “allegedly the biggest shift in the territory of the six -day war in 1967”. And on Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz sent an army to prepare for “prolonged presence in the cleaned camps for the next year, not to allow the return of the inhabitants.”

In any case, there is nothing like ethnic cleansing open the way for mergingThe main fantasy of the Israeli right wing. A thoroughly illegal scheme could also soon receive the explicit approval of the President of the United States Donald Trump, who noted in early February: “People like the idea, but we still have not taken a position.”

On Monday-day after the Israeli tanks on the west coast and the announcement of the de facto ethnic cleansing of Katza-European Union and Israel held the 13th meeting in Brussels, the EU-Israel Council of the EU representatives and the Israeli Minister of Israel was attended by representatives of all 27 EU countries.

Theoretically, the meeting would be a timely opportunity to invite Israel to massively forcibly displaced and constantly slaughter on the west coast – not to mention, you know, Gazi genocide. Three days before Brussels, Israeli forces Fatally shot two Palestinian children In the back near Jenin and Hebron.

Article 2 of the EU-Israeli Association Agreement determines that “Relations between the parties, as well as all provisions of the Agreement itself, are based on the respect of human rights and democratic principles.” And it was precisely this article that in February 2024, the leaders of Spain and Ireland, who called for an examination of whether Israel violated human rights of agreements.

But at a meeting with Sa’ar on Monday, it was clear that the largest trade partner from the EU – the largest Israeli trade partner – is more concerned about preserving the connection with the state guilty of all kinds of war crimes and crimes against humanity. In the official previous meeting of “Note” in connection with the EU position, the general secretariat of the EU-Israel Association Council began, emphasizing that “EU gives great importance to its close relations with the state of Israel.”

Much more kissing Israel’s back follows during the rest of the PDF document on 28 pages, and EU alternately expresses “its full solidarity and support to Israel and its people” and identifying Israel as a “key partner for cooperation” in numerous areas. Note emphasizes how much the EU is “looking forward to” working with Israel on “solving global challenges”, as well as “accelerating the world’s transition to a safe and just food system” – a pretty rich task to assign people who were just just just Use of starvation as a war weapons In Gaza.

This does not mean that Europeans failed to do any criticism of Israel on 28 pages. The note is taken care of that “the EU deeply regrets the unacceptable number of civilians, especially women and children, who have lost their lives” in Gaza; that “the EU is reminded that annexation is illegal to international law”; And that “the EU remains seriously concerned about the extensive objection of Israel on non -select arrests and administrative custody without a formal accusation.” But any substantive condemnation is ultimately drowning by the fact that Europe is so excited that it cooperates with Israel, now and forever.

The statement also informs us that “the EU is seriously concerned that the occupation of the Palestinian territory, which began in 1967, continues to this day,” and repeatedly repeats support for a two -country solution. Yet, anyone assumes that the end of the occupation should be brought, when a state that not only deals with occupation but also tries to disappear, the Palestinian people are considered a great regional partner.

In an interview with Journalists in Brussels, Israeli Foreign Minister Sa’ar defended Israel’s current campaign about forcibly displaced on the west coast, which involved a wide murder of the army and illegal settlers Like the demolition of houses: “These are military surgery against terrorists, and there are no other goals in addition.”

To be sure, a good old antitherial pronunciation never manages to justify Israeli eternal terrorization Palestinians. At the beginning of the West Coast of Israel in January, Defense Minister Katz also expelled the word to explain that Israel was now applying “the first lesson from the repeated attacks in Gaza”, undergoing Jena’s “powerful surgery to remove terrorists and terrorism after the camps

Indeed, the surgery of the western coast of Israel are just an extension of the Gazi genocidal approach, with a mass slaughter and displacement that moves with full American and European complicity – Minus occasional lip service paid by Palestinian rights.

It remains to be seen whether Trump now proposes a “dead sea riviera” on the west coast to submit his vision “Riviera of the Middle East“, Which is supposedly derived from the ruins of Gaza’s belt after now he controls the territory and expelled the native population.

In the meantime, the crimes of Israel against humanity will continue to normalize by the “key partners for cooperation” of the country around the world, while genocide is increasingly rejected by the Non-Novi Empire. And that is, honestly, a crime against humanity himself.

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