I have just seen the latest comments from the Israeli foreign minister who in his words is calling for the temporary evacuation of Palestinians from the West Bank who does he think he is fooling there was nothing temporary about the forcible displacement and removal of Palestinians from their homes in 1948 there's nothing temporary about gazin having to leave their homes as Israeli bombs rain down upon their heads the removal of a people from their land to be replaced by another people of different ethnic origin is the very textbook definition of ethnic cleansing how many more egregious breaches of international law does it have to be for the International Community to fight finally do something if international law is to mean anything there must be the harshest sanction for those who breach it otherwise international law isn't worth the paper it's written on