Every time I make the point that every Arab who isn’t a citizen of Israel but lives between the river and the sea needs to be expelled, there’s always someone who will ask, “Expel them to where?”
In their defense (sort of), none of them actually care. None of them are actually saying, “Yes, you’re right, but where do we expel them to?” No. They’re saying, “You’re crazy, because where would we expel them to?” Or in some cases, “I hate the idea, so I’m going to throw out a question I know you can’t answer.”
But I can answer it.
First, did you know that over 120,000 Gazans have left since Oct 7? Yes. Egypt says they won’t let any Gazans out, but this is the middle east, where baksheesh (bribery) is the norm. Gazans who want to leave and have the money to pay, are leaving.
For Gaza, we get the majority of them gone simply by letting them leave.
We set up an office in Gaza, and anyone who comes and asks to leave, we make it happen. Period. You want to go? Go. You don’t have a destination in mind? We’ll find you a place. Spain has to take you, because they’ve declared that you’re victims of genocide, and by Spanish law, you’re automatically entitled to asylum. So we can ship you across the Mediterranean. A straight shot from Gaza to Spain:
If they want to get off at Egypt or Libya or Tunisia, they’re welcome to do so. It’ll save on fuel.
But everyone who doesn’t want to go?
I live in a town called Karmiel. It’s up in the Galilee, way up north. So far north that, as the crow flies, at least, we are closer to Damascus than we are to Jerusalem. And Syria has no government to speak of. So it seems fairly obvious that those Arabs who don’t want to leave of their own accord should simply be taken to our border with Syria, and frog-marched across. It’s as simple as that. If Syria could do anything about it, they’d already be attacking us.
Don’t get me wrong. This isn’t as simple as merely saying it. There are logistics to be considered. Emptying out Gaza with a convoy of trucks headed up north through the Golan Heights will take time. We’ll stock the trucks with water bottles and bags of Bamba for them to munch on during the trip. We wouldn’t want anyone to say we were being inhumane. They can fend for themselves once they’re in Syria.
But I guarantee this: Seeing Gaza get emptied out will be noticed by the Arabs of Judea/Samaria. The lesson will not be lost on them. But any temporary quiet there will, of course, be only temporary, and so we need not pay it any mind.
After Gaza has been emptied, and publicly annexed, we do Ramallah. The entire city. Then Jenin. Then Nablus. Then Hebron. Then Bethlehem. One by one, they all become new Syrian immigrants. The terrorist neighborhoods of Jerusalem, like Jabel Mukaber, Abu Tor, Silwan: all of them to Syria. They can take whatever they can carry, which is all the Arabs allowed the Jews they expelled in 1948.
But the most important lesson is this: We must do it fast, and we must do it complete.
The Gaza War has been insanity. Letting it run this long has been a death of a thousand cuts for us. Every new day brings more pressure from the outside. Bowing to pressure is stupid, but bowing to pressure when it merely guarantees more pressure is criminally idiotic.
The expulsion of the enemy has to be done fast. It would be best to do it in a week. But certainly no more than a month. Get it over and done with before the lunatics on social media and in leftist governments have a chance to grasp what’s happening.
Then we formally annex Judea/Samaria, and allow developers to start building everywhere.
Just one thing, though. The Gaza Strip is different. First, everyone who was expelled from Gush Katif must be granted back the land that was stolen from them, and they must be given grants to rebuild. Next, soldiers who have served in combat in Gaza must be given land grants in the Gaza Strip. All of them. Including the fallen, whose land grants will go to their families.
Finally… I mentioned that I live in Karmiel. This morning, an Israeli Arab went on a stabbing attack in my city. He was gunned down. But his family needs to have their citizenship stripped from them and be sent to Syria. And so it must be done for every single Arab who commits a nationalist crime in the State of Israel. Rob a bank, and you get the same punishment as a Jew who robs a bank. Attack people for nationalist reasons, and if you somehow survive it, you go to Syria with your family. If you don’t, your family goes anyway.
The vast majority of Arab Israelis are loyal citizens. But those who aren’t must be expelled.
We have tried for 76 years to be “holier than the pope” about things. Turning the other cheek. Sacrificing the lives of our soldiers in order to protect the enemy. A hero who saved lives on October 7 was recently arrested for murder, because he tracked down one of the terrorists who tried to get away and put a bullet in his head. This is not rational behavior for a state. This is evil behavior. We have to stop acting like a battered wife who will bend over backwards to please an unpleasable husband. We are a sovereign nation in our land. The land that God gave us. Entrusted to us. We need to make it clear that we will never again suffer maniacs rising up against us.