Jared Kushner suggests Israel remove Palestinians from Gaza

[jlw]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/03/19/jared-kushner-suggests-israel-remove-palestinians-from-gaza.html

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[Brainspore]

@jlw

“Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable … if people would focus on building up livelihoods,”

“…not the people who are actually there, of course. I mean real people.”

@jlw

so you can go in and finish the job."

A final solution, one might say.

[BakaNeko]

People even doesn’t blush these days…

[FGD135]

Aaand there it is.

Was this also part of the peace plan he came up with during the Trump administration?

[teknocholer]

@jlw

"…if people would focus on building up livelihoods ethnic cleansing " Kushner said, adding, “But in addition to that, I would just bulldoze something in the Negev, I would try to move people in there…I think that’s a better option, so you can go in and finish the job genocide.”

Edited for transparency.

[DasKleineTeilchen]

@jlw

“Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable … if people would focus on building up livelihoods,” Kushner said, adding, “But in addition to that, I would just bulldoze something in the Negev, I would try to move people in there…I think that’s a better option, so you can go in and finish the job.”

are you fucking shitting me?!?

[dwall0]

Definitely a NY real estate developer’s view of nation building: Get rid of the “undesirables”, bulldoze the “slums” and build ritzy waterfront properties for a tidy profit. Gentrification crossed with genocide. Can I trademark the word Genocidrification?

[docosc]

I’m sure the barbed wire fencing and guard towers would be of the finest manufacture. And totally halal gruel.

[apalatn]

@FGD135

Was this also part of the peace plan he came up with during the Trump administration?

Peace is easy when one side is dead.

[danimagoo]

@jlw

This is dehumanizing and awful to an extreme

It’s also in violation of international law and would unambiguously be a war crime. Did the interviewer bring this up at all?

[jesseg]

To borrow a line from Jared Kushner, this is a super bad idea.

[danimagoo]

More info on the legal status of an action like this.

forcible transfer

[Brainspore]

Unfortunately the video clips and the quoted excerpts didn’t show much of Professor Masoud’s side of the conversation so it’s hard to tell how much he pushed back.

He didn’t seem to be on board with Kushner’s proposals but he definitely seemed to be taking the “cool headed impartial moderator” approach over the “calling out bad people for explicit war crimes” approach.

[danimagoo]

You can be an impartial moderator and still call someone out when they propose a crime against humanity. I’m so tired of the media thinking fair and balanced includes not challenging people.

[Brainspore]

From what I can find on Masoud he’s one of those ivy league academics who has built his career around creating “civil discourse” over issues relating to the Middle East. But it’s sickening watching calls for collective punishment and literal genocide being treated like just another set of ideas to debate.

[apalatn]

@danimagoo

I’m so tired of the media thinking fair and balanced includes not challenging people.

Them: We want genocide.
Us: We don’t want genocide.

“Unbiased” Media: Both sides make good points. Let’s compromise and just do a little bit of genocide.

[Shuck]

Except it’s:

Them: We want more genocide.

[BakaNeko]

Did he remembered to talk to the Egyptians about such a great idea?

ETA.

The Negev desert is in Israel. I mistook it for The Sinai. But I think a lot of people would resist and some will try to flee to Egypt anyway.

[nick_warr]

More of “we don’t want genocide, but we’d be happy if they were all imprisoned or dead”

[Ed_Beaty]

Peace is easy when one side is dead.

I read that as “PENCE is easy when one side is dead”. Which was Trump’s plan on January 6, if I’m not mistaken.