You have plenty of Arabs that are doing vital work and are well recognized but your proposed solution for Palestinians is forced deportation. You don't see the contradiction? The argument of "we don't do ethnic cleansing, just because we're forcibly deporting this nationality, because look at these other groups of people we left alone" is so silly as to not be worth discussing. The accusation isn't that Israel is trying to build an ethno-state. The accusation is that the specific plan you proposed constitutes ethnic cleansing, not just technically but also substantively. It's not the worst one could do, but it's an ugly move that won't be well received by much of the world. When Russia decides to mass-deport Ukrainians that don't want to assimilate in Zaporozhye, they will point to Israel and say "they did it, so can we". And they will be right (in that they will be wrong in the exact same way).
I do not see a contradiction - because there are people of the same ethnicity and even for some national identity, all related to Israel, and being parts of groups with very different relations with Israel, sometimes opposites of one another.
You have Arabs in Gaza commiting terror attacks. You have Arabs in Judea and Samaria doing terror attacks lite, plus many more that are much more interested in their day to day life. There are also Arabs in Israel that are hostile to Israel. Those that are not too accepting but assimilate well. Those that distinguish themselves but happily serve in the IDF. And those you cannot distinguish from the average Israeli.
So there is nothing related to ethnicity, nationality, or whatever.
Next door you have a population that's incredibly hostile to you, that only wants to kill you. They attack you but you win every time, only losing a few dozen troops, a couple billion dollars, and a month of stability every 2 years. You believe you can contain the situation. One day they murder 1,300 of your civilians in a single day and take no stops in committing the worst atrocities conceivable to man, and even celebrate them for the world to see. You now have a population that demands "never again".
What do you do?
Iran wants a threat on Israel's doorstep. Why would they accept a solution that removes that threat? Moreover, you think Iran's theocracy will give away some of their territory to form an independent Palestinian state?
The natural law of FAFO tells us that there have to be some consequences. They and the Arab world should be publicly offered this solution, and put them in a dilemma in which they either anger their citizens by refusing, or risk their internal stability by accepting.
Sorry, I was under the impression Israel had issued a statement encouraging them to leave, and presumably was willing to take them as refugees. So then what's the plan for the Gaza civilians?
No policy was released for the public yet, but I doubt the IDF will pay serious consideration to future accommodation of Palestinians if it comes in conflict with its task of eliminating Hamas figures and infrastructure.
Israel controls what gets into Gaza:
The movement of people and goods — including food and water — has been controlled under an Israeli blockade since 2007. Israel withdrew its military forces from the territory under international pressure in 2005 but has said it needed to maintain the blockade to protect Israelis from Hamas.
"Israel controls everything that goes in and out of the Gaza Strip," said Lynk, who visited Gaza periodically while he worked for the UN in Jerusalem.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6990923
So, while I and certainly most others agree on the right to defend itself, the situation is pretty complex and I have no idea what the solution is.
Do Poland and Lithuania hold Kaliningrad under blockade? If they do, then why is none talking about it? If they don't, why expect of Israel something you won't expect of them?
I certainly don't see anyone complaining about Poland and Lithuania not providing Russia resources.
I was looking for the type of weapons and rockets in particular Hamas uses and has access to and was actually quite amazed at what they allegedly have access to and are able to produce themselves. The article is from a couple of years ago and is behind the paywall:
They have a large variety because they gather the building materials from industrial components and actual construction equipment. Some they manage to smuggle, unfortunately. But the biggest threat is the amount and type of know-how they can acquire via remote communication with Iran and its own suppliers. There's a lot to be done with civilian equipment if you really don't care about popularity.
How soon do you think Gaza will get modern cars with collision warning systems? Well take that answer, add maybe 2-3 years, and you got the first Gazan missile with a simple radar. They're pretty good radars too - working in the same band as the Brimstone's.
IDF seems to be taking some extra measures in the Judea and Samaria region, the usual policing along with, what I believe to be efforts to show presence and activity to deter Judea and Samaria Palestinians from taking advantage of the situation for their own terror attacks.
In this instance, a Pizzeria put up an image of a holocaust survivor that was kidnapped by Hamas, which promptly led to the IDF removing said Pizzeria from the image.
Israel is probably one of the least ethnically homogenous nations on earth. That's not what we're striving for. And Israel has plenty of Arabs that we don't intend on hurting or infringing on their rights any time soon, many of whom are doing vital work that is well recognized.
It is about keeping the threat away from our front door. Iran is one of Palestine's largest supporters. I'm sure if a proposal came, they'd gladly accept.
But Gaza can now only rely on food and water from their own fields and aquifers, and Egypt's supplies - all of which are unavailable because Hamas did not care enough about running its natural resources properly, and kept antagonizing Egypt.
