Forced Displacement Anyone?

By: Larry Gordon

The not-so-new anti-Israel podcaster, Tucker Carlson said the other day that he was shocked that the U.S. was contemplating “forcing” the Palestinians in Gaza to vacate what they hope will be their future state of Palestine. Carlson said he never heard of this kind of policy, especially as it relates to a dimension of U.S. foreign policy.

His guest was Shahed Ghoreishi, a former State Department official who was in charge of helping to formulate official statements for the Secretary of State and the Department of State.

The issue with a once-respected journalist like Carlson is not that there is a legitimate difference of opinion between Carlson and U.S. policy on Israel. We can argue and debate those issues endlessly. What has come to the fore recently on Tucker’s podcast is that he distorts facts and feeds his audience a diet of mistruths and deceptions on an accelerating basis of late.

Carlson seems to have crossed over the line of journalistic integrity and feels more at ease joining the side in the media that holds nothing back when it comes to denigrating Israel and marginalizing Jews, doing everything he can to pile on the calumnies and literally place Jewish lives in danger.

Carlson once claimed to be an ardent supporter of President Trump and his policies, but that support has waned almost exclusively when it comes to the President’s support of Israel.

And that is where his guest, Mr. Ghoreishi, comes in. Ghoreishi was recently dismissed from his position, mostly because it seems that he was formulating his own U.S. policy on Israel.

But Tucker doesn’t see it that way. Carlson has this hallucinatory idea that Israel is controlling U.S. policy on Israel, and he is just a few steps away from proclaiming that a cabal of Jews is running the world. The more Tucker talks about these issues, the more pathetic and even comical he becomes.

His guest last week, Mr. Ghoreishi, said that he was fired by David Milstein, a Senior Policy Advisor to U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee. Milstein happens to be the stepson of radio and Fox News personality, Mark Levin, who has also been targeted by Carlson’s off-the-rails hostility toward Jews and Israel. Mike Huckabee is an honest, truth-telling former governor of Arkansas as well as a former Republican candidate for president.

Ambassador Huckabee believes in the greater state of Israel, which includes East Jerusalem and the other territories liberated during the Six-Day War, Judea and Samaria. Carlson, like most in the media, refer to those areas as the “West Bank.”

During the podcast with Ghoreishi, Carlson said he never heard of Judea and asked the former State Department employee if he knows what Judea and Samaria are.

You can see from this example that Carlson is a liar. He claims to be a devout Christian, but never once heard of Judea, which is mentioned numerous times in both the Old and New Testaments. Nowhere are those areas referred to as the “West Bank.” But Carlson insists that Israel is illegally occupying those areas.

But there’s more. David Milstein, who is an advisor to Ambassador Huckabee, is the person who terminated Mr. Ghoreishi, but not because he referred to those territories as the West Bank. His firing came as a result of another matter, that of using the term “forced displacement.” That translates to finding a country that will take in as many as two million Palestinians who, due to their attachment to Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the corrupt Palestinian Authority, lost approximately 80% of all the buildings in Gaza, which were damaged and destroyed in the current war.

For some reason, world leaders who harbor inexplicable hostility toward Israel are reluctant to permit the Palestinians to be moved to places like South Sudan while Gaza is being rebuilt.

Frankly, it’s dangerous to live in Gaza, and not only because most of the homes have been destroyed. According to U.S. military experts, there are currently about 30,000 unexploded bombs laying around Gaza. Of course, those can be inadvertently exploded at any time, which just exacerbates the danger for anyone who thinks they can remain living there as it is.

That’s another matter that annoys Carlson, and that is forcing people who believe in their imaginations that where they are living is “Palestine” to leave for their own good. Their moving is obviously for their own welfare, as well as the health and future of their children. But so long as Hamas has any control over the territory, people place themselves in grave danger if they attempt to leave to someplace safe.

Carlson makes it clear that he feels that U.S. policy in the Middle East is being decided and run by Israel, as if Israel or anyone else can pull that kind of shtick with someone like President Trump.

It appears that Tucker and his guest—the State Department employee who cooked up his own Middle East policy—do not like the idea of Israel bombing Gaza and making it unlivable.

It looks like either Carlson doesn’t know or no one told him that in 1948, one million Jews were chased out of their homes throughout the Middle East and North Africa because those Arab leaders saw it as their sacred duty to expunge the Jews from their land. Back then, it was not called “forced displacement” as they call it today. It was just a matter of ridding their country of Jews.

So, where do you think those millions of Jews ended up?

Israel.

And when the Iron Curtain collapsed in 1989–1990, where do you think most of the million Russian Jews ended up?

Israel.

It’s important to note that most of the Arab countries that expelled their Jews in 1948 are the same countries that would prefer to chase the Jews out of Israel today.

President Trump wanted the war with Hamas ended long ago, with Hamas roundly defeated. Hopefully with the passage of almost two years, the IDF will realize a victory in the near future. It never should have lasted so long and no one seems to understand why it has.

Tucker Carlson probably understands why Arab countries chased their Jews out of their homes back in 1948. He’s at a loss to understand why so many of these Jews are living in Jerusalem and many more in Judea and Samaria. And now on top of that, Trump, whom Carlson usually supports, wants to move the Palestinians out of Gaza and into South Sudan or some other obscure location.

This is not just Tucker Carlson’s obsession; it’s his worst nightmare.

Once this plan gets underway, Trump believes that it will take about 10 to 15 years for Gaza to be rebuilt. At that point, if they want, the Palestinians can return.

It’s a tough situation. But the Gazans brought it upon themselves. The Jewish people thriving in a greater Israel is Tucker’s nightmare, but it’s Israel’s dream.

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