TheAltWorld Forced transfer and the West’s reliance on the humanitarian paradigm
- Ramona Wadi
- Thursday 20 Feb 25
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Emboldened by the US and the international community’s acceptance of its genocide, Israel is not taking long to emerge from the shadows of its own rhetoric. After US President Donald Trump said that there is no right of return for Palestinians under the proposed take-over of Gaza for real estate development, Likud Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi has called for the forced transfer of Palestinians from Gaza.
On Monday, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stated he would seek a vote over implementing Trump’s plan, warning that if Hamas failed to return the remaining captives, Israel would “open the gates of hell” and “immediately begin the migration of Gaza’s residents to other countries.” For Israel, genocide isn’t hell enough.
What Israeli ministers are saying is that since colonialism is above international law, Israel can impose its war crimes on the Palestinian people and strike at the sovereignty of other countries. As it has for decades, it must be added.
Since prior to the establishment of Israel, the Zionist movement has not ceased grappling with the fact that the indigenous population is a reality and the barren land is a myth. In 1938, David Ben Gurion stated that he supported the forced transfer of Palestinians and saw “nothing immoral” in it. The Nakba was one example of forced transfer within the context of widespread massacres, terrorism and destruction. Israel’s genocide in Gaza is another example of forced transfer. What Israel and the US are now aiming at is the forced expulsion from Gaza in a bid to make the land void of Palestinians. But with each effort, Israel is also asserting and reinforcing the Palestinian presence in Palestine. There is no way of avoiding the fact that Israel is built on forced displacement, and on the international community’s acceptance of it.
However, the visibility that comes with attempts to annihilate the Palestinian population also makes the colonised vulnerable. The open calls for forced transfer are not being called out as incitement to war crimes because the international community prefers to deal with the humanitarian issue of refugees. And when speaking of refugees without context, or within a diluted context, war crimes are dismissed in diplomacy. The forcibly displaced become a mere mass of humans lacking basic needs, but what they have truly lacked for decades is the right to their own land.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza reinforces the disseminated concept of a refugee as helpless and dependent. But forced dependence does not indicate helplessness. On the contrary, it exposes what the international community has forced on Palestinians, in order to protect Israel’s colonial presence and establishment. Forced dependence, like forced expulsion, forces us to look at the perpetrators – Israel, the US and the international community – and their actions.
The international community spent decades preparing for a moment when forced displacement can be euphemised through real estate prime property investment. And while most Western leaders would like to be seen once again as presenting alternatives to Trump by rejecting forced displacement, which Western leader will truly take a stance against foreign investment and for legitimate anti-colonial resistance? Refugees, after all, bolster the humanitarian paradigm.
Ramona Wadi
Ramona Wadi is an independent researcher, freelance journalist, book reviewer and blogger. Her writing covers a range of themes in relation to Palestine, Chile and Latin America.
JESUS
It’s about time Hezbollah goes back to the fight and kicks the zionist cockroaches out of Lebanon before bombing heavily cities like tel-aviv.
It’s also time for Iran to deliver on True promise 3 and they said recently that they will.
Time also for the Yemenis to start striking the zionist vermin with hypersonic missiles again.
And finally, Hamas and all other resistance groups must prepare for full scale war in Gaza and the West Bank.
It’s also time for the Western population under the yoke of the Jews and their politician lackeys to topple these rotten regimes.
The zionist scum understands only one language: brute force, and they will stop only when they have been laid on the floor dead.
The world awaits only one thing, “israel” utter destruction.
Geo the red
Hamas leaders are in the employ of Jews.
Iran leadership is in exile, the muppets running the place are also employed by Jews.
Iranian revolution was not about Iranians not having enough Jew religion in their lives.
Jews have mostly controlled Iran since they opened the gates of Isfahan to the peninsular Arabs.
Purim was a sanctioned murder spree instituted in Iran.
The Jews have never been Israelites, they stole that identity, It’s kind of in the name,
The western populations are mostly brain dead Christian’s trying to find a way to seperate these Jews from some other Jews, in order to save their special jew, there will be no rising up.
You’re right on one point, they understand only one actionable language and the fight must be all out offensive door to door Bolshevik jew style in every jew town and city, as described by Solzhenitsyn.
It’s the only way.
It won’t happen because the jew controls both Islam and Christianity.
Only the religiously blind moron can not see the truth.
Fatima was the Koran, not some weak willed emotional basket case who died of grief due to being raised by a weak willed man.
So she had to die, she knew this, only then could the book be claimed holy.
Her parting words should not be ignored anymore.
The rightly guided caliphs were guided by Jews. It’s not hidden.
Alf
I hear you but it goes a bit metaphysical at the end.
Hamas could have been used by Jews but are they at their service?
And Hezbollah?
Yemenis too?
As for Iran, please provide some proofs.
One thing is sure, the enemy are the Jews, everywhere they parasite our societies and they must be removed by force.
Hitler was onto something…