The final expulsion of Palestinians is underway – and your indifference enables it

Palestinians attempting to return to their homes in Tarqumiyah, a city in the West Bank, in 2025

Amira Hass writes in Haaretz on 27 January 2026:

The governmental coup that is driving us backward has an older sister in Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Decisive Plan of voluntary expulsion, which is lowering Israel into new abysses, day by day. Yet the Zionist opposition, which lent its support, in the form of extra reserve duty, blood and slogans to the war of annihilation and revenge in the Gaza Strip, continues to ignore the inseparable connection between them.

So what will happen when the descendants of Joshua enter the Palestinian cities in the West Bank, set them on fire, shoot at homes and beat passersby with their clubs? Will you, the members and supporters of the Democrats and Yesh Atid, rush to enlist in the army to protect these holy warriors from the Palestinians in the West Bank who refuse to surrender?

The changes being made under the umbrella of decisiveness are tectonic and they’re occurring at lightning speed. They are of biblical proportions. The official armies of God and their subcontractors are engaged in expulsion and erasure, in emulating the achievements in Gaza. These legions of holy warriors are expelling one shepherd community after another, attacking village after village and school after mosque.

A spring, a fertile plain and an olive grove – access to them has been blocked for those who have owned them for centuries. The Palestinian Authority’s revenues are in the hands of our Finance Ministry. The sabra plants and the beauty of the land are ours alone. There are still dwindling Palestinian shepherd communities here and there, or villages whose structures were built before 1967, but don’t worry. They’re getting poorer and poorer, more and more exhausted.

The West Bank’s Area C, which came down to us from Mount Sinai, is filled with strictly kosher sheep farms rolling in money and demanding government funding and support. Now, they’ve already spilled over into Area B. Next, it will be the turn of Area A and its cities. The army of God’s chosen ones knows no fear, there’s no method of abuse it’s unwilling to employ. Every deputy battalion, brigade and company commander, every police investigator and chief of staff is its active partner. Your brothers in arms in Judea and Samaria are targeting the Palestinian cities. They wouldn’t have succeeded if it weren’t for your indifference.

After the Palestinians have been concentrated into urban enclaves, engineered by our best military leaders, it will be time to plan their final expulsion. To Jordan? Another war? Peanuts for the Almighty’s army.

Smotrich’s project has been underway for the last three years, conducted openly and consistently. Its foundations were already established by its spiritual ancestors in the West Bank from the mid-1990s, from Yitzhak Rabin’s bypass roads to Ariel Sharon’s call for settlers to “Go to the Hills” and the manufactured helplessness of the agencies of law and order in the face of the settlers’ organized violence against Palestinians and their property.

Similar warnings have been made more than once, and the chances of them now reaching the ears and hearts of the opposition, which defines itself as liberal and democratic, are slim. What’s more, two of its mainstays – Yisrael Beiteinu and Naftali Bennett and his mysterious party – carried out parts of the decisive plan before its current author took office.

What’s more, the glorious legal system that you have come to defend over the past three years has enabled and facilitated “small” deportations, from Umm al-Hiran in the Negev to al-Hadidiya in the northern Jordan Valley. All that’s left is to express frustration and anger, as long as the regime allows us.

The self-imposed silence and intimidation of Jews and the emptying of the country of its Palestinian populace, a dictatorship for the Jews after it was successfully imposed on the Palestinians, the completion of what we failed to achieve in 1948, and a new incarnation of the Kingdom of Judah and the rule of halakha. “Will two walk together, except they have agreed?”

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