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<h1 class="title" id="page-title">“Concentrate” and “exterminate”:
Israel parliament deputy speaker’s Gaza genocide plan</h1>
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<p><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/moshe-feiglin">Moshe
Feiglin</a>, the deputy speaker of the <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/knesset">Knesset</a>,
Israel’s parliament, has published a plan for the total
destruction of the Palestinian people in Gaza.</p>
<p>His detailed plan, which calls for the use of concentration
camps, amounts to direct and public incitement to genocide – a
punishable crime under the <a
href="http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/convention/text.htm">Genocide
Convention</a>.</p>
<p>In a <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/MFeiglin/posts/695450140534104">1
August posting on his Facebook page</a>, Feiglin, a member of
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party, calls
for the “conquest of the entire Gaza Strip, and annihilation of
all fighting forces and their supporters.”</p>
<p>“This is our country – our country exclusively,” he writes,
“including Gaza.”</p>
<p>Feiglin’s posting is the text of a letter he addressed to
Netanyahu.</p>
<p>Citizens and public authorities around the world should attempt
to have Feiglin arrested and prosecuted under the Genocide
Convention for his statements, should he set foot in their
territories.</p>
<p>His abominable plan comes as the death toll from Israel’s
ongoing slaughter in Gaza reaches 1,752 people, including ten
persons killed on Sunday morning when Israel <a
href="http://maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=717781">once
again bombed a United Nations-run school being used as a
shelter</a>, this time in the southern town of <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/rafah">Rafah</a>.</p>
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<p>Feiglin, like his Knesset colleague <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-lawmakers-call-genocide-palestinians-gets-thousands-facebook-likes">Ayelet
Shaked</a>, has previously made <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/expel-palestinians-populate-gaza-jews-says-knesset-deputy-speaker">genocidal
statements</a>, but these are perhaps his most specific and
explicit.</p>
<p>Calling for mass extermination and ethnic cleansing, Feiglin
now urges Netanyahu to “turn Gaza into Jaffa, a flourishing
Israeli city with a minimum number of hostile civilians.”</p>
<p><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/jaffa">Jaffa</a> is
a major Palestinian coastal city that was ethnically cleansed by
Zionist militias in 1948 and incorporated into present-day
Israel. The few thousand Palestinians who remain in the city
face ongoing attempts to force them out.</p>
<p>As of this writing, Feiglin’s Facebook post had more than eight
thousand “Likes” and had been shared almost two thousand times.</p>
<h2>“Concentrate” and “exterminate”</h2>
<p>Feiglin writes that the Israeli army must “designate certain
open areas on the Sinai border, adjacent to the sea, in which
the civilian population will be concentrated, far from the
built-up areas that are used for launches and tunneling. In
these areas, tent encampments will be established, until
relevant emigration destinations are determined.”</p>
<p>“Tent encampments,” where the Palestinian civilian population
would be “concentrated,” are simply concentration camps.</p>
<p>“The supply of electricity and water to the formerly populated
areas will be disconnected,” he adds.</p>
<p>He then calls for the “formerly populated areas” to be “shelled
with maximum fire power. The entire civilian and military
infrastructure of Hamas, its means of communication and of
logistics, will be destroyed entirely, down to their
foundations.”</p>
<p>The Israeli army would then “exterminate nests of resistance,
in the event that any should remain.”</p>
<h2>Expulsion</h2>
<p>“Israel will start searching for emigration destinations and
quotas for the refugees from Gaza,” Feiglin writes, but “those
who insist on staying, if they can be proven to have no
affiliation with Hamas, will be required to publicly sign a
declaration of loyalty to Israel, and receive a blue ID card
similar to that of the Arabs of East Jerusalem.”</p>
<h2>Feiglin’s statements are crimes</h2>
<p>The Genocide Convention defines genocide as any of a number
acts “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a
national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.”</p>
<p>These acts are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Killing members of the group;</li>
<li>Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the
group;</li>
<li>Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or
in part;</li>
<li>Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the
group;</li>
<li>Forcibly transferring children of the group to another
group. </li>
</ul>
<p>Feiglin’s plan has clear genocidal intent in at least two
respects: he denies that the Palestinian people exist and he
defines Palestinians collectively as an enemy and target because
of their religion:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>“There are no two states, and there are no two peoples.
There is only one state for one people.”</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>“The strategic enemy is extremist Arab Islam in all its
varieties, from Iran to Gaza, which seeks to annihilate
Israel in its entirety.”</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>In addition to outright acts of genocide, punishable crimes
under the convention include “direct and public incitement to
commit genocide”; “conspiracy to commit genocide” and
“complicity in genocide.”</p>
<p>Any fair-minded prosecutor would see that Feiglin’s statements
provide ample probable cause for action under the convention.</p>
<p>State parties to the Genocide Convention are obligated to
punish crimes under the Genocide Convention in their domestic
courts.</p>
<p>Citizens around the world should seek to have Feiglin and any
other Israeli leaders who commit genocidal acts arrested and
sent for trial by using whatever legal mechanisms are available,
including notifying law enforcement and immigration authorities
of such genocidal statements.</p>
<h2>Full translation of Feiglin’s statement</h2>
<p>Feiglin’s Facebook page is verifiable as his because it is
linked from his <a
href="http://knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=885">official
page on the Knesset website</a>.</p>
<p>Here is Feiglin’s <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/MFeiglin/posts/695450140534104">1
August statement on Facebook</a>, translated in full by Dena
Shunra:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>With God’s Help</p>
<p>Attention</p>
<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu</p>
<p>Mr. Prime Minister,</p>
<p>We have just heard that Hamas has used the ceasefire to
abduct an officer. It turns out that this operation is not
about to be over any too soon.</p>
<p>The failures of this operation were inherent to it from the
outset, because:</p>
<p>a) It has no proper and clear goal;<br>
b) there is no appropriate moral framework to support our
soldiers.</p>
<p>What is required now is that we internalize the fact that
Oslo is finished, that this is our country – our country
exclusively, including Gaza.</p>
<p>There are no two states, and there are no two peoples. There
is only one state for one people.</p>
<p>Having internalized this, what is needed is a deep and
thorough strategic review, in terms of the definition of the
enemy, of the operational tasks, of the strategic goals, and
of course, of appropriate necessary war ethics.</p>
<p>(1) Defining the enemy:</p>
<p>The strategic enemy is extremist Arab Islam in all its
varieties, from Iran to Gaza, which seeks to annihilate Israel
in its entirety. The immediate enemy is Hamas.
(Not the tunnels, not the rockets, but Hamas.)</p>
<p>(2) Defining the tasks</p>
<p>Conquest of the entire Gaza Strip, and annihilation of all
fighting forces and their supporters.</p>
<p>(3) Defining the strategic goal:</p>
<p>To turn Gaza into Jaffa, a flourishing Israeli city with a
minimum number of hostile civilians.</p>
<p>(4) Defining war ethics:
“Woe to the evildoer, and woe to his neighbor”</p>
<p>In light of these four points, Israel must do the following:</p>
<p>a) The IDF [Israeli army] shall designate certain open areas
on the Sinai border, adjacent to the sea, in which the
civilian population will be concentrated, far from the
built-up areas that are used for launches and tunneling. In
these areas, tent encampments will be established, until
relevant emigration destinations are determined.</p>
<p>The supply of electricity and water to the formerly populated
areas will be disconnected.</p>
<p>b) The formerly populated areas will be shelled with maximum
fire power. The entire civilian and military infrastructure of
Hamas, its means of communication and of logistics, will be
destroyed entirely, down to their foundations.</p>
<p>c) The IDF will divide the Gaza Strip laterally and
crosswise, significantly expand the corridors, occupy
commanding positions, and exterminate nests of resistance, in
the event that any should remain.</p>
<p>d) Israel will start searching for emigration destinations
and quotas for the refugees from Gaza. Those who wish to
emigrate will be given a generous economic support package,
and will arrive at the receiving countries with considerable
economic capabilities.</p>
<p>e) Those who insist on staying, if they can be proven to have
no affiliation with Hamas, will be required to publicly sign a
declaration of loyalty to Israel, and receive a blue ID card
similar to that of the Arabs of East Jerusalem.</p>
<p>f) When the fighting will end, Israeli law will be extended
to cover the entire Gaza Strip, the people evicted from the
Gush Katif will be invited to return to their settlements, and
the city of Gaza and its suburbs will be rebuilt as true
Israeli touristic and commercial cities.</p>
<p>Mr. Prime Minister,</p>
<p>This is the a fateful hour of decision in the history of the
State of Israel.</p>
<p>All metastases of our enemy, from Iran and Hizballah through
ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood, are rubbing their hands
gleefully and preparing themselves for the next round.</p>
<p>I am warning that any outcome that is less than what I
defined here means encouraging the continued offensive against
Israel. Only when Hizballah will understand how we have dealt
with Hamas in the south, it will refrain from launching its
100,000 missiles from the north.</p>
<p>I call on you to adopt the strategy proposed here.</p>
<p>I have no doubt that the entire Israeli people will stand to
your right with its overwhelming majority, like myself – if
only you will adopt it.</p>
<p>With high regards, respectfully,</p>
<p>Moshe Feiglin</p>
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