Speaking to Al Jazeera, Ronnie Kasrils, a former South African government minister, cited the founding fathers of Zionism, including Theodor Herzl, who had openly and intentionally declared the goal of seizing the entire land of historic Palestine through ethnic cleansing, terrorism, wars and forced displacement.
He warned that the Israeli goal recently developed to be more extreme and cruel to the point of genocide, which Israeli historian Ilan Pappe has labelled “gradual genocide”, currently taking place “without embellishment” at the hands of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet.
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He stressed that the West supports Israel's displacing the Palestinians, and eliminating them, if necessary, after they proved to be “steadfast” for years.
Source: Middle East Monitor