BCG modelled plan to 'relocate' Palestinians from Gaza

5 musicjohn 6 7/5/2025, 7:38:55 AM ft.com ↗

Comments (6)

ggm · 9h ago
There's a precedent:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda_Scheme

A typically British bad idea.

Another one might be transmigrasi: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmigration_program

A bad Dutch idea, carried out forcefully by the Indonesian government for decades.

A point to keep in mind: the Palestinians don't want to be relocated. So, it's both contentious, and probably a (war) crime. Forced relocation has a long, torrid, bad history.

musicjohn · 9h ago
Boston Consulting Group modelled the costs of “relocating” Palestinians from Gaza and entered into a multimillion-dollar contract to help launch an aid scheme for the shattered enclave, a Financial Times investigation has found.
like_any_other · 9h ago
anovikov · 8h ago
I can't see what's wrong about it. Israel needs to solve Palestinian problem in one way or the other.
ben_w · 8h ago
Crimes Against Humanity under Article 7(1)(d) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court:

  Article 7
  Crimes against humanity
  1. For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
  (a) Murder;
  (b) Extermination;
  (c) Enslavement;
  (d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
- https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/Rome-Sta...

Neither the USA nor Israel have ratified this treaty, but it's still what you might consider "not a good look": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_parties_to_the_Rome_Sta...

anovikov · 7h ago
Well, Israel could never come into being if it cared about any of that. If Jews obeyed laws - that were, in those times, specifically instituted against them in all-Christian Western world, and similarly antisemitic Islamic one - they'd just be wholly exterminated long before Israel was founded. Also, well, they could instead just be kept in, separated by gender, until they age out of terrorism, as a worse (too expensive), but still acceptable solution.