No One Comes up With Ethnic Cleansing Spontaneously

The openly expressed Israeli-American desire to ethnically cleanse Gaza should make the whole world revisit October 7

Trump and his band of late-empire dimwits admit to everything and gift us wonderful clarity. Their calls for more death, destruction, ethnic cleansing, and theft should embolden us to describe some important bits of history more daringly, and truthfully.

Has there ever been an uglier couple?

Ethnic cleansing is never a kneejerk reaction; it is always deliberate and demonstrative of entrenched psychopolitical trends

When judging October 7 people must realize (or must be made to realize) that Israel's plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza were not a reaction to the events of that day - no one comes up with ethnic cleansing spontaneously - but rather the other way around.

Palestine's violent resistance has always been a reaction to continued attempts to ethnically cleanse all Palestinians from their ancestral homeland, as Zionism has been trying to accomplish for over a century.

The Palestinians are the ones trying to defend themselves against sustained and organized action to destroy them, but the West supports their attackers and genociders because Palestinians are (mostly) Muslim and brown, and Ashkenazi Jews are white and connected to echelons of power in the West.

That's the true story, and no amount of coercion and colonial rewriting of history will be able to change it. It is the only story humanity will know when all is said and done because it's the sole unadorned truth.

October 7 was not the cause of ethnic cleansing, it was the result of ethnic cleansing. Had Palestinians been left to live their lives, no resistance group would ever have been established.