Will Capitalism Triumph Over Democracy In Gaza?

Real estate speculators in the US and Israel have their eyes set on valuable Gaza waterfront property

The likelihood that millions of Palestinians will be forcibly displaced and dispossessed of their homes and property increases each day as Israel’s relentless bombing campaign against Gaza continues unabated. It is becoming increasingly evident that Israel’s goal is to exterminate any Palestinian presence in Gaza by bullets, bombs, starvation and disease.

As Israel has done since its inception in 1948, they can also accomplish their policy agenda by ethnic cleansing similar to the way indigenous North Americans were displaced by European invaders from the seventeenth century. This might involve forcibly removing those Palestinians still left in Gaza after Israel’s military conquest to resettle in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Of course, the US and Israel will undoubtedly be more than generous to compensate Egypt with unlimited billions of dollars to cover the expenses of resettling millions of Palestinian refugees.

In any genocidal war or ethnic cleansing there are always vulture capitalists, especially real estate speculators and developers, more than anxious to take advantage of the misery to others by seizing property assets and enrich themselves at the expense of others. This is always happening throughout recorded history, and especially in the United States which was a nation built on the foundations of slavery, ethnic cleansing, and in some instances genocide. The history of…