There was never a doubt in my mind that Israel’s recent incursion into Gaza had zero to do with hostages. Zero. This was pure pretext. An egotistical deluded leadership running rampant, supported by unhinged believers. A land grab through ethnic cleansing. This has always been the goal. And then the resource theft! Yes, there is also the theft of the Palestinians energy resources in the Mediterranean- Israel alongside the US have long coveted these resources as well as the prime real estate.
The new plan, which was approved in an early morning vote by Israeli Cabinet ministers, also calls for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to move to Gaza’s south. That would likely amount to their forcible displacement and exacerbate an already dire humanitarian crisis.
From my censored site- 2009
https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2009/10/israel-not-after-real-peace-with.html
An unapproved document outlining Israel's future foreign policy states that the government should not attempt to reach a permanent settlement with the Palestinians but should focus instead on a temporary accord to prevent US and European frustration.This means, just buy time, that’s all. Buy time-try to fool the international community and then continue on our merry way.
This is more of the same old, same old. Israel has never wanted peace with the Palestinians nor have they ever wanted to see a two state solution.
This is playing out in real time. Now. And for the past decades.
Israel’s Channel 12 said Smotrich made the comments at a conference on settlement policy in the illegal Ofra settlement in the occupied West Bank.
“Within a few months … Gaza will be totally destroyed,” he said. “The Gazan citizens will be concentrated in the south. They will be totally despairing, understanding that there is no hope and nothing to look for in Gaza, and will be looking for relocation to begin a new life in other places.”
More than 15 yrs ago at my censored site
https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2010/03/israel-set-to-export-natural-gas-but-is.html
Sadly the links are no longer viable, save for one at the end.
Israel, a country that is notoriously empty of natural resources.
Set to become an exporter of natural gas?
Two undersea gas fields? Belonging to a country notoriously empty of natural resources?
This doesn’t make any sense. Unless you realize that the natural gas, is also off the coast of Gaza.
“”But can we say with great confidence that the Mari B natural gas field and the adjacent Noa fields are totally owned by Israel? Do they finish on the border as shown on this Noble Energy Map? Do the disputed borders comply with normal United Nations Convention On The Law Of The Sea (UNCLOS) protocol? Do the Israelis ever accept or comply with the International Maritime Law?
Surprisingly the answer to all of the above is most definitely no!
My next question would be why would the Israeli Government and Noble Energy select to drill right on the Gaza (Palestinian) border?”
This link is still working
Global Research
More than 36 billion cubic meters of Gaza’s natural gas have been stolen for two decades amid systematic closure of the enclave to protect the interests of American and Israeli gas companies.
Since the early occupation of Palestine, Israeli occupation authorities adopted systematic policies to control land and water resources in cooperation with the British government including the use of military overpower to set realities on the ground and enact laws and military orders to shape the future of the occupation.
One more for your reading pleasure? Or displeasure?
The Other Reason Trump Wants Gaza: Getting Its Off-Shore Gas
But there is another deal Trump has in mind. In the waters off of Gaza are untapped gas fields, which may interest the U.S. president even more than hotels and beaches. The “Gaza Marine” field in the Eastern Mediterranean, discovered by British Petroleum in 1999, is located 36 kilometers west of the Gazan coast, spaning an area exceeding 1,000 square kilometers, according to official Palestinian figures.
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Israeli lecturer Dr. Kfir Teshuba tells Israeli newspaper Maariv that the creation of a “David Corridor” – a land route linking the occupied Golan Heights to Syria’s Druze region, then to the US presence in the tri-border area, and onward to the Kurdish-controlled northeast – is a strategic solution to Syria’s post-Assad reality. He says the corridor would help break the isolation of the newly formed Druze autonomy in “Jabal al-Druze” (Suwayda) and secure a direct alliance between Israel, the Druze, and the Kurds.
According to Teshuba, the corridor would block Iran’s land bridge to Lebanon, curb Turkish influence in the region, and open vital oil and trade routes from Kurdish areas to Israel. Despite what he describes as potential threats from Sunni militias in Deraa, he suggests local cooperation and partial Druze control could safeguard the route.
For Israel, he says, this is a rare opportunity to reshape its northern frontier into a zone of stability, influence, and economic benefit.
The idea is not new. The so-called David’s Corridor, rooted in the vision of Greater Israel, refers to an age-old Israeli project to establish a land corridor stretching from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights through southern Syria to the Euphrates River.