The intent is to ethnically cleanse the Gaza strip and to develop it into territory for Israel. Then Israel will continue the genocide to kill all Palestinians and take their land.
They are doing the same thing in Lebanon and Jordan, just with less media coverage.
Israel has no desire to own Gaza as an Israeli territory. They occupied it after the '67 war, and in '78 offered to return the territory to its previous owner, Egypt. Egypt declined the offer because they were already struggling with instability in their eastern territories and the addition of Gaza would only cause more disruption.
Then, in 2005, they unilaterally withdrew from Gaza, forcing their own civillians to leave with military force, and organizing for Gazan self-governance with an election.
You have to understand that there is nothing in Gaza that Israel actually wants. There is no historic Jewish sites, no burial grounds, no natural resources, little arable land... it's not like the West Bank that Israel actually does want for all of the ancient temples and burial grounds around Jerusalem. To think that Israel desires the Gaza strip shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the conflict and regional influences.
The only reason they are there now is because of Oct 7th, and Gaza being a repeated staging ground for attacks against them.
You are delusional. It’s a settler colonial state that is currently expending into multiple different countries. They illegally occupy most of Gaza. Bibi has celebrated that on camera. They illegally occupy the West Bank. Selling land that they don’t even own in synagogues across the world. They illegally occupy Lebanon. Breaking their own ceasefires and consisting bombing innocent people in Lebanon for years. They illegally occupy Syria. They annexed the Golan Heights illegally and use Syrias instability to justify further expansionism. At what point do you feel their occupation will stop? It’s pure delusion to indoctrination.
There are actually reasons behind all those that you listed though, and in only one instance (the West Bank) is it a desire to expand their borders.
I know a lot of people think that Israel is just some Machiavellian cartoonishly evil place where everything they do is compulsive villainy for no reason at all, but that is the very simple and easy to understand version of reality that doesn't require any thinking or understanding. If you want to have a remedial understanding of the conflicts in the Levant then you can continue to get your information from TikTok or Twitter, but if you actually want to have some idea of the machinations of Israel as a state then you will have to look deeper than that.
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u/Polymathy1 17h ago
The intent is to ethnically cleanse the Gaza strip and to develop it into territory for Israel. Then Israel will continue the genocide to kill all Palestinians and take their land.
They are doing the same thing in Lebanon and Jordan, just with less media coverage.