Shimon Peres Proposes Ethnic Cleansing    

 
So Shimon Peres proposes a plan for the complete ethnic cleansing of Israeli Arabs, and it is being reported by the media as an offer to give ‘land equal to 100% of West Bank‘ to the Palestinian Authority to create a ’state’. This might strike some as being geographically impossible since Israel insists on keeping 100% of its settlements, which litter nearly 42% of the West Bank. However, we are told that in return for this land, Israel will swap its Arab towns. So Israel will not only get to keep the choicest land on the West Bank, it will also conclude its long standing project, started in 1948, of ridding itself of its Arab population. Total ethnic cleansing, in other words.

The following passage is telling.

“Israel is also examining various options of exchanging settlement blocs with Arab community blocs within Israel, in agreement with the residents. An agreement on this issue would enable Yisrael Beiteinu, headed by Avigdor Lieberman, to remain in the coalition.”

As everyone knows, Avigdor Lieberman’s stated goal is to rid Israel of Arabs. But then there is the equally important geographical question. What does Israel mean by land ‘equal to 100% of West Bank’?

First of all, Israelis don’t count Greater Jerusalem as part of the West Bank. Immediately after capturing Jerusalem in ‘67, Israelis expanded its borders to three times its original size where concentric circles of new settlements now completely surround the Arab quarter. The border has expanded eastward ever since to the extent that it now effectively bisects the West Bank. The UN map published earlier this year shows just how viable such a state would be.