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Members of the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) Danny Danon and Ram Ben-Barak recently penned an article at the Wall Street Journal calling for the West to resettle Palestinian migrants in light of the displacement brought about by Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
Danon is a senior Likud member of the Knesset who previously served as ambassador to the United Nations. Likud is a hard-Right Israeli party that is thoroughly opposed to the establishment of a two-state solution with the Palestinians. Ben-Barak is a Knesset member of the Yesh Atid party, a centrist Israeli party. He previously served as a deputy director of the Mossad from 2009 to 2011.
The Israeli military operation was carried out in response to Hamas’s terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023. Hamas won elections in Gaza in 2006 and took over the area from the Palestinian Authority in 2007. In contrast to the Palestinian Authority, Hamas takes a harder line against Israel, by pursuing its destruction and refusing to pursue a two-state solution with it…
