Eduard Cousin (@eduardcousin.bsky.social)

Architect of plan to starve Gaza invited to Israeli left-wing conference <article data-history-node-id="431071" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/architect-plan-starve-gaza-invited-israeli-left-wing-conference" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/architect-plan-starve-gaza-invited-israeli-left-wing-conference" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Architect of plan to starve Gaza invited to Israeli left-wing conference</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p dir="LTR">The architect of the controversial <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/israel-gaza-palestine-what-generals-plan" target="_blank">Generals' Plan</a>, retired <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a> general Giora Eiland, is expected to <a href="https://x.com/adinitay/status/1984876803794624784" target="_blank">participate</a> in a conference organised by the left-wing Israeli party The Democrats to mark the 30th anniversary of the assassination of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.</p> <p dir="LTR">The conference is expected to take place on Friday at a teacher training seminar in Tel Aviv.</p> <p dir="LTR">According to the conference programme, Yair Golan, head of The Democrats, will <a href="https://e.democrats.org.il/Democrats_OpenHouses/231307?utm_source=bewith&utm_medium=calendar" target="_blank">deliver</a> a speech after a recorded message by President Isaac Herzog.</p> <p dir="LTR">Afterwards, a discussion will be held on the subject of "Responsibility and Leadership" with Eiland, alongside former Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former mayor of Beit Shemesh, Aliza Bloch.</p> <p dir="LTR">According to Uri Weltmann, an activist in the left-wing Jewish-Palestinian group Standing Together, Eiland's participation in the conference "at the very least indicates that there are people in the leadership of the party who do not feel the need to distance themselves from statements that support starvation or support a sweeping attack on civilian population".</p> <p dir="LTR">"A left-wing position, a peace-seeking position, which I think should be supported, are positions that deny harming an innocent civilian population," Weltmann told Middle East Eye.</p> <p dir="LTR">Eiland headed a group of former Israeli security officers who called in September 2024 for the implementation of a military plan in the northern <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-genocide-gaza" target="_blank">Gaza Strip</a> known as the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/israel-gaza-palestine-what-generals-plan" target="_blank">Generals' Plan</a>.</p> <h3 dir="LTR">Read more: <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/architect-plan-starve-gaza-invited-israeli-left-wing-conference">Architect of plan to starve Gaza invited to Israeli left-wing conference</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Left-wing Israeli activists demonstrate along the border with the Gaza Strip, calling for an end to the war, on 19 September 2025 (Jack Guez/AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="e12ecb8f-813b-45a5-bd02-0ee1aa85c9e2" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/Left-wing-Israeli-activists-border-Gaza-19-September-2025-Guez-AFP.jpeg" width="1400" height="932" alt="Left-wing Israeli activists demonstrate along the border with the Gaza Strip, calling for an end to the war, on 19 September 2025 (Jack Guez/AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Left-wing Israeli activists demonstrate along the border with the Gaza Strip, calling for an end to the war, on 19 September 2025 (Jack Guez/AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url("https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png") rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article> https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/architect-plan-starve-gaza-invited-israeli-left-wing-conference