MASK OFF: Israeli Politicians Call for the West to Resettle Gaza Refugees
Jose Nino
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Members of the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) Danny Danon and Ram Ben-Barak recently penned an article at the Wall Street Journal calling for the West to resettle Palestinian migrants in light of the displacement brought about by Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
Danon is a senior Likud member of the Knesset who previously served as ambassador to the United Nations. Likud is a hard-Right Israeli party that is thoroughly opposed to the establishment of a two-state solution with the Palestinians. Ben-Barak is a Knesset member of the Yesh Atid party, a centrist Israeli party. He previously served as a deputy director of the Mossad from 2009 to 2011.
The Israeli military operation was carried out in response to Hamas’s terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023. Hamas won elections in Gaza in 2006 and took over the area from the Palestinian Authority in 2007. In contrast to the Palestinian Authority, Hamas takes a harder line against Israel, by pursuing its destruction and refusing to pursue a two-state solution with it.
Danny Danon and Ram Ben-Barak alluded to how Hamas fighters allegedly stole food and medical supplies from humanitarian vehicles on October 15. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency revealed the theft in a tweet, which was later deleted. However, UN sources confirmed the theft to Israeli media outlet Walla News, and Israel’s military liaison to the Palestinians confirmed that Hamas got its hands on fuel and medical supplies.
The Israeli Knesset members called attention to how the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution pushing for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce” and called on all relevant parties to allow the “continuous, sufficient and unhindered” provision of critical supplies and services into the Gaza Strip. However, the Israeli Knesset members called attention to how the UN resolutions are “doing nothing tangible to help Gaza’s residents.” They believe “It is imperative that the international community explore potential solutions to help civilians caught in the crisis.”
To solve this problem, the two Israeli politicians pitched the idea for countries worldwide to accept “limited numbers of Gazan families who have expressed a desire to relocate.”
They called attention to how Europe has an extensive track record of helping refugees flee wars. Danon and Ben-Barak highlighted “the wars in the former Yugoslavia displaced millions, most of them from Bosnia and Herzegovina” where Germany, Austria’ and Sweden accepted considerable numbers of migrants.”
The Israeli politicians highlighted other examples of European countries taking in refugees:
“When the Kosovo war erupted, hundreds of thousands of Kosovar Albanians fled to neighboring Albania and the country now called North Macedonia. Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. also accepted refugees. European countries including Germany, Sweden and France have provided refuge to Syrians since the civil war started in 2011. Between 2015 and 2016, Germany alone admitted more than 1.2 million refugees and asylum-seekers, about a quarter of whom were Syrian.”
In sum, the Israeli political figures believe that countries worldwide should look at these examples and emulate the countries by providing shelter to Gaza residents who want to relocate.
They believe that “Countries can accomplish this by creating well-structured and internationally coordinated relocation programs.”
Danon and Ben-Barak concluded with the following statement:
“The international community has a moral imperative—and an opportunity—to demonstrate compassion, help the people of Gaza move toward a more prosperous future and work together to achieve greater peace and stability in the Middle East.”
In sum, these two Israeli politicians want to dump Palestinian migrants onto the West. This serves multiple purposes. On one hand, a mass exportation of Palestinians gets rid of Israel’s perennial ethnic problems with them. As a result, Israel gets ethnically cleansed of potential unruly Palestinians.
Secondly, it’s no secret that Israelis have major antipathy for Europeans, which is a long-standing hatred for the multiple instances of expulsions and pogroms Jews faced on the Old Continent. They would like nothing more than to stick it to the Europeans by sending thousands of angry Palestinians their way.
Moreover, the angry, disaffected Palestinians will serve another Israeli purpose: Getting Jews still residing in Europe to move to Israel. Palestinians and other Muslim migrants that have swamped European countries in the last few decades not only have an antipathy to white Europeans but they’re not fans of Jews — who they believe are complicit in Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
Naturally, a score of anti-Semitic attacks will kick off across Europe. Israeli officials will inevitably capitalize on these attacks to show embattled Jews that only in Israel can they remain safe. That’s one of the key value propositions the state of Israel uses to convince world Jewry to settle down in the Jewish state.
The Israeli politicians are faithfully advocating for the Zionist agenda. Western governments would be wise to not oblige them. Ultimately, Israel needs to solve its own problems without any form of Western aid.
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