The theme of ethnic cleansing is quite central to Ya’alon’s tweet. In November 2025 he gave an interview to Israeli Democrat TV about Gaza on where he issued a similar warning about Israel becoming a “corrupt and leprous fascist Messianic state”, “conquering, annexing, ethnic cleansing”… “look at northern Gaza”… “What’s happening there? There’s no Beit Lahia. There’s no Beit Hanoun. They’re currently operating in Jabalya, and essentially, they’re cleaning the area of Arabs”. Ya’alon now seems to be making a similar to warning about the West Bank, but there is an important point to remember – as a Zionist, Ya’alon also supports ethnic cleansing, just not the way the current government is going about it.