In response to this report, Barak Ravid reports that “A spokesperson for Tony Blair: ‘Reports that Mr Blair has anything to do with the voluntary evacuation of Gazans is simply not true, there has been no such discussion nor would he consider it’ “
Peloni: Of course, we won’t know more til we do know more regarding the reality of this report, but the conversation which this report is stirring should be seen as an important victory all by itself.
In “News 12” it was reported that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will head a team for voluntary evacuation from Gaza and locate countries in Europe that will agree to take in Palestinian refugees
Maariv online, 12/31/2023
Smotrich’s victory?
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will head a team for voluntary evacuation from Gaza and locate countries in Europe that will agree to take in Palestinian refugees, it was reported this evening (Sunday) in “News 12”.
According to the report, Blair arrived in Israel last week for a series of meetings, and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister Benny Gantz. Blair will act as a mediator between Israel’s goals regarding “the day after” and between the moderate Arab countries, and will examine the possibility of accepting Palestinians from Gaza around the world.
As you remember, on Thursday the limited war cabinet was supposed to discuss for the first time the issue of “the day after” in the Gaza Strip. This provoked outrage among the right wing of the coalition, and in the end Netanyahu decided to cancel it. After the religious Zionist party claimed that the move was made without authority, Netanyahu decided that the expanded cabinet – which also includes Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gabir – would discuss the issue.
@ketzel 2
https://www.timesofisrael.com/albania-becomes-first-muslim-country-to-adopt-anti-semitism-definition/
@Sebastien, Albania no longer has a large Jewish community, most Albanian Jews emigrated to Israel and elsewhere. However, I agree that Albania is an outlier among Muslim states.
Saranda, a resort town in the south of Albania, has a ruin of a 5th century (I think) synagogue, and when I was there in 2019, I never saw any graffitti or disrespectful behavior, although it was usually unguarded.
@Michael l did not advocate castrating all Gazan Arab males. I was referring to the Hamas terrorists the IDF took prisoner and any others who are known to have participated in the rape, torture, and mutilation of Israeli women and girls.
See, everybody, this is why footnotes (or “citations” – not traffic tickets -) are important.
I once took a mixed undergraduates/master’s degree candidates history course in which the whole course was checking the footnotes of celebrated histories that had been through the whole process of vetting by fellow historians.
I found:
a)footnotes that referred to non-existent references
b)footnotes that cited passages that actually refuted rather than supported the argument the author was making.
c)footnotes that were hard to verify because they cited the wrong edition.
d)misquotes
e)footnotes that referred to other secondary sources and where no primary sources could be found.
f) footnotes that referred to anonymous or debunked sources.
f) lots of other misleading errors.
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And that certain dictator to whom you refer, conquered most of the countries where members of that certain minority were able to flee to and proceeded to murder them all. They were not murderers and they had regarded themselves as citizens of the countries that turned on them. Moreover, he made it illegal for them to emigrate when he started the war. He and his followers were psychotic, racist, mass murderers, like the minority population you compare him and his followers too who had been welcomed as neighbors and given full autonomy and aid.
One of the Hamas leaders said, “If we wanted to turn Gaza into Singapore we would have done it ourselves.”
Moderate Muslim countries with big Jewish communities and very little antisemitism: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Albania, Kosovo.
Why would anybody want to send our worst enemies to join the political landscape of our only friends in the Muslim world?
Especially, Azerbaijan from whom Israel imports 40 to 60 percent of her oil and is Israel’s eyes and ears on Iran.
Nikki Haley advocated sending them to pro-Hamas countries.
Hi, Ketzel
We use an old cookie tin for a breadbox. It is very small, and many kinds of loaves don’t fit there. You did figure out the “puzzle”, though: Yes, the Jews are the majority “Semite” group there, and the Pallies are the minority ones. You added other comments, including,
The Pallies are certainly normal Muslim fanatics. As for the Jews, hmm, I can’t say. Someone close to me, of the next generation, told me about some peers she had recently met. After getting to know them a little while, they told her,
“At first, I thought you were normal; but you’ve turned out to be pretty cool!”
It’s hard to tell if the above are like Central American refugees, seeing that we have essentially no control of the Southern border and know nothing of the so-called “refugees” pouring into our country, often with no papers. I look forward to Donald Trump retaking his proper place in the White House, and sorting that matter out.
A certain dictator in Europe once had a problem getting rid of a Semitic minority in his country. He tried taking their goods and expelling them, but no country would take them. He even pushed them across the Polish border, I’m told, and they ended up in a no-man’s land (similar to the Philadelphi Corridor). Finally, he ended up having to kill them.
Leaving aside arguments of who is “normal” and who isn’t, Israel has a similar problem: what to do with these people! Sebastien suggested that their males be castrated without anaesthetic. That solution has advantages, and also drawbacks. Other possibilities are also problematic. As a Jewish cousin of mine in Israel once said,
“We have to do something about these people. We can’t just ignore them”.
Israel is a very small country, with very little “wiggle room”. If the TSS (Two-state Solution) is really dead, I rhetorically ask, “What now?” There is one solution I definitely oppose: sending them here to the US.
dreuveni:
You mean moderate Muslim countries! If any exists!
@Michael
Is it bigger than a breadbox?
Ketzel,
Did I mention Jews?
@Michael S
There is no real parallel between Jews and Pals, for lots of reasons. First, Jews are normal, Pals are not. Second, Pals are not a true minority, as there are over a billion fellow believers in the Religion of Peace, while Judaism is a tiny religion with little territory. And I could go on.
Also, there are many other minorities who find themselves in tough positions throughout the world. The Jews and Pals get all the attention for political reasons, but if you zoom out, there are plenty of ongoing ethnic and religious conflicts. There are some parallels, but most have unique features and aren’t comparable.
If anything, Pals are like Central American refugees. They absolutely have to come here for the goodies, even though their larger ethnic group dominates an entire hemisphere.
This is interesting. Israel is inhabited by a Semitic minority that no other country seems to want. Where have I seen this before?
Toni Blair should find Islamic countries to which Palestinians can emigrate. European countries would satisfy the WEF much more than the Arabs.
Good News Blair is a big name and perhaps he can countries to cooperate with him in finding homes for the Gazans.