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A highly-decorated former Israel i defence minister has caused a firestorm by accusing Israel of carrying out ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in northern Gaza. Moshe Ya’alon, who served for three decades in the Israel Defense Forces , including in the elite Sayeret Matkal commando unit, and as the military’s chief of staff, also said he believed Israel was losing its identity as a liberal democracy and becoming a “corrupt and leprous fascist Messianic state”.
And the ideas have gained traction: In October, hundreds of activists and several senior sitting ministers attended a Gush Katif conference near the Gaza border. “We need to stay there, we need to establish a flourishing Jewish settlement there,” Israel’s far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said in an interview with Israel TV channel Kan on Monday. “Both because this is the land of Israel and also because this guarantees the security of the residents of the South.
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