AnarchoNinaAnalyzes on Nostr: In news that is somehow both shocking, and not at all surprising, Trump's ...
In news that is somehow both shocking, and not at all surprising, Trump's failson-in-law and former foreign affairs adviser is now casually advocating for ethnic cleansing, via the forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza. Citing, I shit you not, waterfront property values and ruination caused by Israel's genocidal campaign of destruction in the Palestinian territory, Jared Kushner advocated pushing Gaza's citizens into Egypt or Israel's Negev desert, while speaking at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in February; and somehow, these comments only became public this month.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/kushner-ethnic-cleansing-gaza
"I know that that's been refused, but [with] the right diplomacy I think it would be possible," Kushner added. "But in addition to that, the thing that I would try to do if I was Israel right now is I would just bulldoze something in the Negev, I would try to move people in there. I know that won't be the popular thing to do, but I think that that's a better option to do so you can go in and finish the job."
Despite the American corporate media's tepid coverage of Kushner's comments, I can tell you unequivocally that what Kushner is advocating for here is textbook ethnic cleansing; a euphemism for genocide. Furthermore, the forcible transfer or deportation of a targeted group within a state is literally a crime against humanity under Article 7 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court. Planning, or inciting either is also itself a crime under international law, so you'd think Kushner's casual advocation for these policies might have drawn greater scrutiny in U.S. media; although perhaps given the bipartisan political support for the genocide Israel is *already* conducting in Gaza, maybe they just chalked it up to "a normal weekday in Amerikkka."
Although one might be tempted to disregard Kushner's comments as mere opinion, it's important to remember that Jared's father-in-law, Donald Trump, is running for President of the United States, and it is extremely likely that a Trump victory will bring Kushner back into a position of considerable power in a 2nd Downmarket Mussolini administration. As noted by Chris Walker over on Truthout, the dispossession of Palestinians has already fallen under Kushner the boy wonder's purview during his prior service in government:
"Notably, Kushner was instrumental in a plan to normalize relations between Israel and a number of Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East. That plan also included an outline for Israel to annex more illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, recognize Jerusalem as its capital, and continue to deny Palestinians the right of return."
Taken together with Trump's recent comments that he supports the IDF's mass murder campaign in Gaza, and that Israel had to "finish the problem" it seems fairly safe to say that a Trump administration would maximally support Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians with few questions asked, and little concern for international law. In my opinion, that's important news to share with the American people at length; maybe the reason mainstream corporate media in America doesn't see it that way is because once you've already sold out to support a genocidal military campaign of collective punishment against brown people half a world away, it doesn't really matter to you precisely *how* that genocide gets completed.
#Gaza #Genocide #Kushner #Trump
https://www.commondreams.org/news/kushner-ethnic-cleansing-gaza
"I know that that's been refused, but [with] the right diplomacy I think it would be possible," Kushner added. "But in addition to that, the thing that I would try to do if I was Israel right now is I would just bulldoze something in the Negev, I would try to move people in there. I know that won't be the popular thing to do, but I think that that's a better option to do so you can go in and finish the job."
Despite the American corporate media's tepid coverage of Kushner's comments, I can tell you unequivocally that what Kushner is advocating for here is textbook ethnic cleansing; a euphemism for genocide. Furthermore, the forcible transfer or deportation of a targeted group within a state is literally a crime against humanity under Article 7 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court. Planning, or inciting either is also itself a crime under international law, so you'd think Kushner's casual advocation for these policies might have drawn greater scrutiny in U.S. media; although perhaps given the bipartisan political support for the genocide Israel is *already* conducting in Gaza, maybe they just chalked it up to "a normal weekday in Amerikkka."
Although one might be tempted to disregard Kushner's comments as mere opinion, it's important to remember that Jared's father-in-law, Donald Trump, is running for President of the United States, and it is extremely likely that a Trump victory will bring Kushner back into a position of considerable power in a 2nd Downmarket Mussolini administration. As noted by Chris Walker over on Truthout, the dispossession of Palestinians has already fallen under Kushner the boy wonder's purview during his prior service in government:
"Notably, Kushner was instrumental in a plan to normalize relations between Israel and a number of Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East. That plan also included an outline for Israel to annex more illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, recognize Jerusalem as its capital, and continue to deny Palestinians the right of return."
Taken together with Trump's recent comments that he supports the IDF's mass murder campaign in Gaza, and that Israel had to "finish the problem" it seems fairly safe to say that a Trump administration would maximally support Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians with few questions asked, and little concern for international law. In my opinion, that's important news to share with the American people at length; maybe the reason mainstream corporate media in America doesn't see it that way is because once you've already sold out to support a genocidal military campaign of collective punishment against brown people half a world away, it doesn't really matter to you precisely *how* that genocide gets completed.
#Gaza #Genocide #Kushner #Trump