When Donald Trump stated his desire to have all Palestinians deported from Gaza, he let out a demon from its bottle by normalizing ethnic cleansing. Now all of Israel’s far-right feels empowered and will argue that ethnic cleansing is totally possible. The reason for this is because America is a trendsetter. When the US Supreme Court declared forced sterilization to be constitutional in the Buck v Bell case, Hitler found inspiration. Israeli journalist Aluf Benn, writing for Haaretz, makes this warning:

Trump has normalized the discourse around ethnic cleansing in Gaza, revealing the aspirations of many Jews in Israel.

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This is the first time Israel has announced a practical plan for the expulsion of Arabs from territory it controls.

Benn observes that Israel wants to push the Gazans out by making life for them as horrendous as possible, in the hopes that another country will take them in:

Instead, it will likely encourage their departure through starvation, or in the euphemistic words of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, “management of humanitarian aid,” or by resuming the war to “annihilate Hamas,” as promised by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The idea is that, as the cries of Gazans echo, countries worldwide will be moved to open their doors to refugees from Khan Yunis and Jabalya.

Now that Turkey is right next door to Israel (since it is now occupying Syria), it would not be surprising if Turkey declared that it would take them in. If Turkey does take in the Gazans, it will be seen as the heroic nation of the Islamic world, and will then declare itself justified to war against Israel. At the end of the day, the jinn of ethnic cleansing has been unleashed, as Ben writes:

In effect, Trump has released from the bottle the secret wishes of many Jews in Israel, who do not believe in the prospects of living alongside Arabs on the same strip of land. “It’s us or them,” in the right wing’s version, or “us here and them over there,” in the left wing’s formulation.

As one of the leaders of the Zionist left told me years ago: “In our hearts, we are all Kahane; all the rest is a matter of education.” Opinion polls conducted in recent days confirm his argument: As soon as Trump normalized talk of ethnic cleansing, a large majority of Jews in Israel wishes to kick Palestinians out of Gaza.