The Forced Displacement of Gaza’s People: Roots of the Zionist Project and Scenarios for Its Defeat
From its inception, the Zionist entity has relied on forced displacement of Palestinians as the cornerstone of its colonial-settler project—an essential tool for achieving its expansionist goals. The current assault on Gaza since October 7, 2023 is but the latest chapter in a cumulative scheme designed to uproot Palestinians from their land, enforce demographic change in favor of settlement expansion, and do so under the cover of broad U.S. support and shameful international silence.
This investigation reconstructs the picture from its roots: the displacement plans and their mechanisms, the historical trajectories, the Arab and Islamic stances, and the role of the Axis of Resistance in shaping scenarios for aborting the Zionist project.
1. The Current Plan: “Deportation to Six Countries”
Western media leaks (including reports in major U.S. newspapers) reveal Israeli moves to forcibly displace Gazans to six Arab and African countries—among them Syria, Libya, South Sudan, and Somaliland—exploiting fragile political and economic conditions.
Execution methods: direct contacts with governments and intermediaries; attempts at disguised forced “resettlement” under labels such as job opportunities, temporary housing zones, tent cities, humanitarian corridors, or “voluntary migration” manufactured by coercion.
Demographic objective: Empty Gaza of its population—or drastically reduce it—to cement settler control, framed within the Zionist doctrine of “national security” and the so-called “demographic nightmare” cited by far-right leaders.
Palestinian resistance response: The plot will not pass. The right of return and self-determination are inalienable, and steadfastness on the land remains the last line of defense against ethnic cleansing.
2. Roots of the Project: Eight Historical Stages of Displacement
Displacement is not an anomaly but a core policy in Zionist ideology since before the 1897 Basel Congress. It evolved into military, legal, economic, and media tools across eight phases:
1. Pre-1897 and Early Zionist Theory
1845: British official Edward Mitford proposed a Jewish homeland in Palestine with Muslims relocated to Anatolia.
1895–1897: Theodor Herzl’s diaries outline confiscation and “smuggling of the poor,” later endorsed by Zionist figures like Ussishkin, Rothschild, Jabotinsky, Ben-Gurion, and Katznelson.
2. British Mandate (1920–1947)
Facilitation of Zionist immigration and land purchase under High Commissioner Herbert Samuel.
1937 Peel Commission: partition plan plus proposed transfer of 225,000 Palestinians, celebrated by Zionist leaders.
Preparations for coercion and psychological warfare ahead of the British withdrawal.
3. The Nakba (1948): Foundational Ethnic Cleansing
Haganah, Irgun, and Stern gangs carried out massacres (Deir Yassin, Tantura, al-Dawayima, etc.) under “Plan Dalet.”
Over 700,000 Palestinians expelled; hundreds of villages destroyed; return prevented by systematic laws.
4. Post-Armistice and Military Rule (1949–1966)
“Border cleansing,” expulsions of tens of thousands inside/outside 1948 lines.
Property confiscation laws (“Absentee Property”), “Law of Return” for Jews only.
External transfer projects (e.g., “Johanan Plan” to South America, Libya schemes, exploiting the Suez War and Kafr Qasim massacre).
5. Occupation of 1967 and Aftermath (1967–1973)
Occupation of the remainder of Palestine; 320,000 displaced from the West Bank and Gaza.
“Voluntary migration” by coercion: lowering living standards, cutting water, establishing migration offices in Gaza camps, “Five Fingers” settlement plan.
Transfer deals to Latin America (Paraguay) failed due to popular rejection.
6. Between the 1973 War and the First Intifada (1987)
Escalation of “transfer” schemes (Begin, Kahane, Ze’evi); attempts to empty camps.
Wars and regional turmoil used to push Palestinians into exile under “economic improvement” pretexts.
7. From Oslo to Pre-2023 Assault
Frameworks of “resettling refugees where they are,” calls to abolish UNRWA, “population exchange” proposals (Lieberman).
Gaza blockade (since 2006) and successive wars (2008, 2012, 2014, 2021): record poverty/unemployment, systematic pressure to migrate.
Sinai schemes (Eiland 2010), far-right plans (Smotrich 2017), governmental discussions (2019) to facilitate departure.
8. From October 7, 2023 to 2025: The Largest Laboratory of Forced Transfer
Leaked ministerial documents proposing displacement to Sinai and other states; plans for airports, tent cities, buffer zones.
“Generals’ Plan” (2024): total siege and starvation of northern Gaza, resettlement via bombardment and expulsion.
Outcome: 60,000+ martyrs; nearly 2 million internally displaced; UN estimates: 92% of housing and health infrastructure damaged or destroyed.
3. Mechanisms of Implementation: From