‘Magical Thinking’: MSNBC Contributor Claims It’s Unrealistic For Palestinians To Evacuate To Area Suggested By Israel

An MSNBC contributor said Israel is engaging in “magical thinking” by telling Palestinians they’ll find safety in southern Gaza because the land there is uninhabitable.

Chris Jansing played a SkyNews report showing the area where Israeli officials said Palestinians can find shelter and humanitarian aid. Reporter Stewart Ramsey described it as “a desolate wasteland of sand dunes next to the Mediterranean Sea. There is no aid…There are no aid agency tents. There are no food kitchens. There is no help here.”

Jansing then asked Aaron David Miller, senior fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “So, Aaron, is it at all realistic where Israel is telling them to go, or is this more of a talking point for the Netanyahu government?”

“This is what I mean when I talk about magical thinking,” Miller said, continuing:

It doesn’t have any infrastructure. It’s completely ill-suited and it’s not able to accommodate all the Palestinians who, under circumstances, might well go there. It’s simply not possible.

And again, I reluctantly have come to the conclusion: I don’t think the Israelis are willfully and intentionally trying to kill and murder Palestinians, but I do believe it is simply impossible, given their military strategy, to create a situation where you can move people in advance into secure, habitable locations.

And I think because of internet shortages, because of confusion, because of the map, which I think confuses many of the Israelis, that this is simply not going to be possible. The only way to preserve Palestinian life is for the Israelis to stop attacking densely populated areas, 21,000 humans per square mile in Gaza, and they’re not going to do that.

Miller also claimed the Biden administration hasn’t been able to advise the Israelis with “any better ideas” on how to spare Palestinian lives.

“I think he would have offered and provided that guidance by now,” Miller said.

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.