‘If we’ll manage to get a quarter or half a million Arabic speakers out of the country, that will be enough,’ King said in an interview to an Israeli news outlet after he published a job offering in the name of a Jewish philanthropist exposing a plan to ‘encourage a non-Jewish immigration for work purposes’
Haaretz
Arieh King in a protest in Jerusalem earlier this year Credit: Olivier Fitoussi
Jerusalem Deputy Mayor and right-wing activist Arieh King is helping an anonymous Jewish philanthropist to launch a program to encourage the emigration of non-Jewish citizens outside of Israel, King announced on Facebook on Wednesday.
In an interview to HaMakom Independent Magazine following the post, King explained that “the idea is to encourage non-Jews to relocate outside the borders of our country.” The philanthropist who supports the current venture wishes to remain anonymous.
King refused to use the term “transfer,” claiming instead that the plan is better seen as an encouraged “business-relocation” for non Jews. “If we’ll manage to get a quarter or half a million Arabic speakers out of the country, that will be enough,” he clarified.
In 2005, Haaretz revealed that King worked with the Jewish-American millionaire Irving Moskowitz in the purchase of land from Arabs in East Jerusalem.
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King has been accused of racism in the past by his detractors. In the 2020 election campaign he produced signs comparing the Muslim call to prayer by the muezzin in the city’s mosques to a rooster crow, and pledged to see to it that the volume would be lowered. On Passover of 2018, he praised the confiscation of bread from a stand in the Old City, calling it a step in “the Judaization of Jerusalem.”
Earlier this year, King called on U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to leave the city in a tweet, saying the visit by the top American diplomat “creates a bad feeling to most of Jerusalem residence.”
Trudeau would love to have them come to Canada to enhance his project. Maybe we can offer free passage and other inducements.
I reached out to Arieh King to see how we might collaborate. We have communicated before.
@Peloni Except for the diehard fanatics. How many I wonder.
The Pals live in a war zone. They have no hope for a future for their children which will be any different than that in which they themselves suffer. Offer them a reason to leave, a home with employment, the opportunity for self advancement in an economy which will be growing rather than stagnating or collapsing, where their families can live without fear of some random rocket aimed for Tel Aviv landing in their diving room during dinner, or their child’s bedroom in the dead of night. Offer them such reasons to leave, and they will go, and the positive experience gained by those who leave will draw others to follow their choice in parting with a life of desperation, despotism and death. What drew the Arabs to live in the land of milk and honey in the early part of the 20th Century, can also serve to draw them to leave their den of squalor and destitution, but only if they have a motive or incentive to leave and means to do the leaving. Give them these things, and they will go, and their lives will be better for their leaving, just as will be the lives of their neighboring Jews who will benefit from a lack of such violently inclined neighbors.
It’s good to see the national conversation tending back in this direction.
Create a green city in Jordan for 5 million , offer free housing , setup businesses, mosques every few blocks, 500 billion and an allowance of 100,000 per person , 500 billion. About a trillion or 100,000 per family for 625 billion. All the residents of the West Bank and Gaza. They would enjoy a better life in a better place with enough money for 8 years without work which would allow for immediate prosperity. A little bit like the Neom project. No more war no more defense expenditures, savings. We spent 2 trillion on Iraq. Why not 1 trillion…?
Herzl also thought Arabs could be bribed to leave for other pastures BUT he had not done any economics and did not have before him over a hundred years of facts and stats about migration.
The basic economic fact is that labour moves to investment and that applies to internal as well as international migration. In the US southern blacks moved to northern cities. In Italy southerners move to northern cities. Throughout the World surplus peasant younger sons and daughters move to cities since the Middle Ages. In Britain the Industrial Revolution drew southerners inclusive young Londoners to northern mills even as since Thatcher killed off shipbuildiing and much else northerners go south. In the steamship era Europeans moved to the Americas – South as well as North – and to Australasia and S. Africa.
In Eretz Israel Arabs moved into British Palestine because Zionists invested £100 million ($5 billion modern) between 1917 – 37 (Peel Report) and the British estimated that Arab immigration matched Jewish migration [which was the Keynesian multiplier of the Mandate economy] In particular the Allenby Campaign and the British in WW II hired a lot of Egyptian labourers to build rail and roads and do camp duties and in 1919 and again in 1945 20 000 so total 40 000 of these men demobbed in Palestine rather than go home to Egypt. That did not stop them then sending for their families or brides. The proof is that in 1948 many of them fled back to Egypt BUT in 1949 Farouq the Crook slammed the frontier on them which is why a third of the Gaza “refugees” are surnamed Masri / Misri and many of the rest are Hijazi or Yamani.
You will not move Arabs from Israel unless you can bribe them with better lives elsewhere – or use methods that are in some way Tsarist: closing public sector jobs to them; deporting those – with their households – who have served prison for “nationalist offences;” and denying credit to them as in the May Laws.