Extreme-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich responded on Tuesday to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s rejection of any plan to ethnically cleanse Gazans by saying they should become refugees “like Syrians and Ukrainians”. Writing on X, Smotrich urged “the opening of Gaza’s gates for the voluntary emigration of refugees, as the international community has acted regarding refugees from Syria and Ukraine”. At least 6.7 million Syrians have been forced out of their homeland by the regime of Bashar al-Assad and forces fighting on its behalf, while Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has …