Mustafa Barghouti is a Palestinian physician, activist, and politician who serves as General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative.
"I am 100% sure that their main goal right from the beginning was the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza, trying to push people to Egypt, a terrible war crime. And if they managed to do so, I think their next goal will be to try to ethnically cleanse the West Bank and force people to join them," said Barghouti.
Barghouti added, "If they fail to ethnically cleanse all Gazans, I am sure that Netanyahu's plan B is to annex Gaza City and the north of Gaza completely to Israel and claim it as a security area."
Concerning the prospect of Israeli troops remaining in Gaza, he said "Israel did that before and it didn't work. And there will be resistance to their occupation, which they cannot tolerate. And that's why Netanyahu's goal really is to ethnically cleanse people. He wants to have military control of Gaza without people. He knows very well that Gaza with people is something that is unmanageable."
Boycott Israel and the US
The Arab world comprises about 300 million people. The populations are consumers of American products in huge amounts.
During World War II, a movement by American Jews called for a boycott of Nazi Germany. That was followed by a boycott of the apartheid regime in South Africa that began in the late 1950s and is largely credited for raising awareness of the injustice in the following decades.
Purchasing Nazi products in Germany, or the apartheid regime in South Africa, supported their crimes and gave their existence and activities a legitimacy that enabled them to continue.
In the past two months, ever since Starbucks' corporate office announced it would sue its union for posting a pro-Palestine statement, a strong boycott has left the company with a loss of nearly $12 billion.
The company's support for Israel has caused a drop in sales while the company was hosting its Red Cup Day, an annual event where baristas hand out reusable holiday themed cups. Over 5,000 workers at 200 stores went on strike in solidarity with Palestine and worker rights.
Coffee drinkers are looking to switch to a local cafe' that does not support the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Across the Arab world, and around the globe, consumers are finding their power to confront the Israeli war that is supported by the US. Posters with the slogans of various products with drops of blood from victims of war and aggression, compared the act of drinking "Coca-Cola" or "Pepsi" to drinking the blood of dead children.
American public is isolated, insulated, and far-removed from the war in Gaza, and often they have no idea what Europeans, South Americans, Canadians, Africans and Asians are thinking about the US policy to support the genocide in Gaza and prevent a cease-fire.
Since 2005, the official BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanctions) Movement has run a coordinated boycott effort to help Palestine, which called for "a broad boycott of Israel and the implementation of divestment from it, in steps similar to those applied against South Africa during the apartheid era."
In the US, many college campuses have passed resolutions to divest from these companies, bringing boycotts to a new, younger, more energetic generation. President Joe Biden is far out-of-step with these younger people, who in a recent poll showed 70% disapprove of Biden's handling of the war in Gaza.
Recent campaigns urging people to boycott companies such as McDonald's, Disney, Starbucks, Coca Cola and others have gone viral around the world. In some countries, restaurants have removed Coca Cola and Pepsi products.
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