Nov 20, 2023
IMAGE: As Israel's genocide continues in Gaza, it has become clear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's endgame is, in fact, the total displacement of the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and possibly even the occupied West Bank (Majid Fathi/APA Images) Muhannad Hariri for Electronic Intifada writes… In The Biggest Prison on Earth, Ilan Pappe writes that, in June 1967, after Israel defeated its Arab enemies in the 1967 War, the Israeli Knesset met to consider its postwar options. On the one hand, Israel could resume its 1948 program of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and finally make Israel an entirely Jewish nation. On the other hand, Israel considered the implementation of an occupation of the Palestinian territories without expulsion. Why did Israel opt for occupation? Although the postwar realities of 1948 and 1967 were similar, offering fertile ground for further expulsion of the Arabs, there was, according to Pappe, an important difference. "In 1948