Israel’s Day-After Gaza Plan Is Compilation Of Garfield, Gekko, Felt, And Yiddish. “Other People’s Money” “Greed Is Good” “Follow The Money” “Chutzpah” And Gazans Are On Vacation, Not Displaced
Israel’s Day-After Plan For Gaza Is Unflattering Compilation Of Garfield, Gekko, Felt, And Yiddish.
“Other People’s Money” “Greed Is Good” “Follow The Money” And “Chutzpah”
Muslim Nations Will Betray Their Values If They Permit What Yoav Gallant, Minister Of Defense Of The State Of Israel, Suggests Relating To Gaza. That They Pay For What They Did Not Do.
Don’t Need To Be Muslim To Appreciate Despicable Strategy By Government Of The State Of Israel.
Muslim And Non-Muslim Nations Must Hit Israel Where Israel Feels It- In The Pocketbook. Consider Freezing Some Assets Just As US$320 Billion In Central Bank Of The Russian Federation Assets Have Been Frozen For Benefit Of Ukraine.
United States Department Of State Believes Palestinian’s In Gaza Are “Displaced” But Government Of The State Of Israel Believes Palestinians Are On Vacation- Meaning They Can Return Home. Oh, Forgot, We Destroyed Their Homes And Their Workplaces. Our Bad.
The Government Of The State Of Israel Has Chosen How To Engage, Prosecute Its War Against The Organization Hamas And Its Affiliates And Supporters In Gaza. Nothing Forced The IDF To Murder Thousands Of Women And Children; Destroy Hospitals, Schools, Electric, Sewer, And Water Facilities.
In the 1975 motion picture, All the President’s Men, a primary character, Mark Felt, an agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) referred to as Deep Throat suggests two journalists “Follow the money.”
In the 1987 motion picture, Wall Street, the primary character, Gordon Gekko, embraces the following: “The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind.”
In the 1991 motion picture, Other People’s Money, the primary character, Lawrence Garfield, embraces the following: “I love money. I love money more than the things it can buy. There's only one thing I love more than money. You know what that is? OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY [OPM].”
From Wikipedia: Chutzpah. “Originated 1890–95 from Yiddish חוצפּה (ḥuṣpâ), from Mishnaic Hebrew חוֹצְפָּה (ḥôṣǝpâ), from חָצַף (ḥāṣap, “to be insolent”). Ultimately from Aramaic חֲצִיפָא (ḥăṣîpāʾ), חֲצַף (ḥaṣap, “to be barefaced, insolent”).”
The government of the State of Israel’s position with respect to the reconstruction of Gaza, home to approximately 2.3 million residents, where the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has damaged and destroyed nearing 70% of structures and infrastructure during the last three months, with an estimated replacement and repair value of US$5 billion, is:
“Follow The Money” meaning use “Other People’s Money” for the reconstruction of Gaza by embracing the theory “Greed Is Good” and proudly displaying “Chutzpah” by having others pay for what the IDF chose to do in Gaza.
Yoav Gallant, Minister of Defense of the State of Israel, said Israeli officials want a “Palestinian entity” to run civilian affairs in Gaza after the war. His plan includes:
First, Israel will coordinate and plan an oversight role in civil governance, and be responsible for inspecting incoming goods.
Second, a multinational task force, led by the United States in partnership with European [presumably France, Germany, United Kingdom] and moderate Arab nations [presumably Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates], will take responsibility for running civil affairs and the economic rehabilitation of the Strip.
Third, Egypt, which is noted as a “major actor” in the plan, will take responsibility for the main civilian border crossing into the Gaza Strip, in coordination with Israel.
Fourth, existing Palestinian administrative mechanisms will be maintained, provided that the relevant officials are not affiliated with Hamas. Local authorities that currently deal with sewage, electricity, water, and humanitarian aid distribution will continue to operate, in collaboration with the multinational task force.
Government Of The State Of Israel: 2.3 Million Palestinians In Gaza Are Not Displaced They Are Dispersed And On Extended Vacations
United States Department of State
Washington DC
3 January 2023
Matthew Miller, Spokesperson
QUESTION: Okay. That’s fine. Since our last briefing – two weeks ago, I believe – there have been many Palestinian – or many thousands of Palestinians killed, injured, displaced, and so on. How do you see this thing ending? I mean, do you see that Israel is achieving its goals that – or its stated goals, which is to decapitate Hamas, change the leadership, go after them, and so on? Do you see them achieving those goals? Are we closer to an endgame, in your view —
MR MILLER: So we are —
QUESTION: — than we were, let’s say, two weeks ago?
MR MILLER: So we are still in the middle of this conflict. Israel has talked about the fact that they will continue to prosecute it. You’ve heard us talk about the fact that we have engaged in discussions with them about where the conflict is going and when they may shift to a lower-intensity combat operation. We will continue to engage in those conversations with them. They have killed a number of Hamas fighters. Obviously, the leadership of Hamas is still intact in Gaza, and they continue to pursue them and it continues to be a goal that we believe is a worthy one. When and how this will end is not something I’d want to speculate on from here.
QUESTION: But with Gaza becoming an unlivable place in many ways, this is a heightened likelihood, isn’t it?
MR MILLER: The humanitarian situation in Gaza is dire, which is why we are working – and were working over the holiday period – to try to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza and why we will continue to make that a top priority. But what we hear in our engagements with Palestinian leadership, with Palestinian civil society leaders, with Palestinians, is that they do not want to be forcibly removed from Gaza, that they want to remain in Gaza; and that is a choice that we support – that we support and that we fully endorse.
QUESTION: Thanks, Matt. To pick up on your response to Smotrich and Ben-Gvir yesterday, you and Linda Thomas-Greenfield both had similar statements. You both said in your statements, quote, “There should be no mass displacement of Palestinians from Gaza.” Given that you both had the same word-for-word statement, it seems like there was thought put into that. Why use the word “should” there, “There should be no mass displacement”? Would you be willing to make a more definitive comment like “there must”?
MR MILLER: There must not be, yeah. No, there —
QUESTION: And then to get to Ben-Gvir’s response, which I’m sure you saw – he posted on Twitter, “…with all due respect, we are not another star on the American flag. United States is our best friend, but first of all, we will do what is best for the state of Israel. The emigration of hundreds of thousands from Gaza will allow the residents of the enclave,” or the envelope, “to return home and live in safety and to protect the IDF soldiers.” Any response to Ben-Gvir’s public response to you?
MR MILLER: So certainly, Israel is a sovereign country that does make its own decisions. There is no dispute about that. The point of our – of the statement that I made yesterday was that the comments that Ben-Gvir and Minister Smotrich have made are in direct contradiction of Israeli Government policy as has been represented to us by multiple Israeli Government officials, including the prime minister himself. So I’m not surprised that he continues to double down and make those statements, but they are not only in contradiction with United States policy and what we think is in the best interests of the Israeli people, the Palestinian people, the broader region, and ultimately stability in the world, but they are in direct contradiction of his own government’s policy. And we believe those statements should stop.
QUESTION: And to follow up on Türkiye, I’m sure you’ve seen Türkiye has joined South Africa in its charging Israel with genocide before the International Court of Justice. Is there any concern within the State Department that State Department officials could be roped into this prosecution?
MR MILLER: No. I will say that as it relates to the State Department, we have been committed to addressing the humanitarian situation in Gaza and have made a priority of preventing, as we – I just said in your – in response to your question, the displacement of Palestinians. I will also say, though, that genocide is of course a heinous atrocity, one of the most heinous atrocities that any individual can commit. Those are allegations that should not be made lightly, and as it pertains to the United States, we are not seeing any acts that constitute genocide.
QUESTION: And finally, over the break, top authorities in the Armenian Quarter expressed deep concern that the Israeli Government was using the conflict in Gaza to push out a lot of Armenian Christians from the Armenian Quarter. Any response to those concerns?
MR MILLER: So no specific response to that. But as we have said on a number of occasions, we do not want to see the Government of Israel take any steps that would escalate tensions.
Go ahead.
QUESTION: According to Financial Times, Israel is putting more pressure on Egypt to accept refugees from Gaza. Since you’re against any displacement of Palestinian and Egypt is your partner, do you encourage or support Egypt not to accept refugee from Gaza?
MR MILLER: So I will say that it is not just the Government of Egypt that has rejected displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. It is other countries in the region, who have all made clear, going back to the early – the immediate aftermath of October 7th, in the trip that the – in the – that the Secretary made to a number of countries in the region, that that displacement was a non-starter for reasons that relate to history that I think people in this room know all too well that I don’t need to go through again. And so we have made that clear to the Government of Israel, that it is a non-starter. We have made that clear publicly, that we don’t want to see any displacement of Palestinians from Israel, which is why, when we see statements to the contrary, we respond as we did in the statement that I issued yesterday.
QUESTION: And you do support those countries —
QUESTION: Sorry, wait, wait, wait, hold on.
MR MILLER: Go ahead.
QUESTION: You don’t want to see any displacement of Palestinians from Israel?
MR MILLER: Gaza. I meant to say Gaza. Thank you.
QUESTION: And you do support those country who reject or – displacement?
MR MILLER: They have made it clear for, I think, very understandable reasons of history that it’s a non-starter.
QUESTION: So can I just —
MR MILLER: Yeah.
QUESTION: Just to follow up on that a little bit – and you might have answered this in response to Said’s – one of Said’s first questions. But isn’t what’s going on in Gaza now, in terms of the Israeli offensive, in terms of the Israeli operation – isn’t that displacing Gazans? Or are you making a distinction between internal displacement, even though it’s not a state, so I know they can’t be technically IDPs —
MR MILLER: Yeah. There’s —
QUESTION: — or them leaving the border and going into another country or a – going into a country, since they don’t have one of their own? Why is it – why is what is happening now not the forcible displacement of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians?
MR MILLER: It is a good question. We don’t want to see any Palestinian forced from their home, but there – no, no, but there are military operations going on that put Palestinian people at risk. When you see the IDF coming into neighborhoods —
QUESTION: (Off-mike.)
MR MILLER: Yeah, exactly. Exactly my point – coming into neighborhoods and conducting legitimate military operations, it is appropriate, we believe, to ask people to leave their homes for a temporary period while the IDF carries out military operations. We also believe that it’s important that people be able to return to their homes, and if their homes have been destroyed, that there’s a process in place to rebuild and reconstruct Gaza. And that’s something you’ll see us pursuing in the weeks and months to come. That’s different than the idea of forcing them from their homes, from their land, and raising the fear among them and among other countries in the region that they would never be allowed to return.
QUESTION: Yeah, but they have been displaced from their homes and their land.
MR MILLER: They have been displaced —
QUESTION: But you don’t regard that as displacement in the same way that you saw Smotrich and Ben-Gvir’s —
MR MILLER: It – correct. Correct.
QUESTION: Well, I – I’m sorry, I just find that hard to believe. If you’re – I don’t —
MR MILLER: If you —
QUESTION: They have been displaced, have they not?
MR MILLER: They have been displaced. They are still inside Gaza. And if you see what Smotrich and Gaza[1] are raising, they are raising the idea of resettling Palestinians from Gaza so Israelis can move in.
QUESTION: I get that. I —
MR MILLER: Which is a very different – that is the nature of the disagreement.
QUESTION: So it’s okay with you that hundreds of thousands of people have been pushed into the south – into Rafah, out of their homes? That’s not – that doesn’t count as bad displacement?
MR MILLER: We – we do not – we do not want to see anyone displaced from their home. We don’t – we also don’t want to see anyone in harm’s way. There is an obvious tension between those two. And when it comes to resolving that tension, I think the first priority needs to be to try to keep those people as safe as possible. But we want them to be able to ultimately return to their homes, not forced from their land and, as those two ministers have raised, with the specter of never being able to return.
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