This op-ed was written by the Israeli Intelligence Minister:
ANOTHER OPTION is to promote the voluntary resettlement of Palestinians in Gaza, for humanitarian reasons, outside of the Strip.
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This is an opportunity for those who say they support the Palestinian people to show these are not just empty words.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the global UN body that deals with refugees, is mandated by its Statute and the UN General Assembly Resolutions to undertake resettlement as one of its three durable solutions.
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Instead of funneling money to rebuild Gaza or to the failed UNRWA, the international community can assist in the costs of resettlement, helping the people of Gaza build new lives in their new host countries.
Instead of funneling money to rebuild Gaza or to the failed UNRWA, the international community can assist in the costs of resettlement, helping the people of Gaza build new lives in their new host countries.
“Instead of helping the people of Gaza or rebuilding Gaza, you could use that so-called ‘charity’ for more noble purposes - like ethnic cleansing!”
Welp. I guess I always knew Israel would go mask off at some point in my life. Just didn’t think it’d be so cartoonish.
I had to read the original a few times just to confirm. It seemed so shockingly awful I assumed I misread it. What the heck kind of “proposal” is that?!
What happens when ethnic nationalism receives little to no pushback from the general population. It just gets worse, and worse, and worse.
Not sure that there’s a bottom it can hit. It just drills.
Holy crap, she’s just outright saying “let’s do ethnic cleansing”. They cause the “humanitarian reasons” and then try to get all the inconvenient people to just leave so they can have the land.
What… The… Fuck. This is my first and last time directly reading a statement made by a far-right politician. I just can’t… Just reading a few sentences made me wanna punch that bitch in the face.
Stop calling it “ethnic cleansing”
That shit is a euphemism
It’s genocide. It’s just genocide.
It’s a venn diagram, ethnic cleansing can involve things that aren’t necessarily extermination, expulsions from land being the big example.
Turkey and Greece exchanged each other’s ethnicities post WWI and War for Turkish independence, ethnic cleansing but not necessarily genocidal. Also weirdly enough, sanctioned by international mediation because shit was weird back then
It’s what China is doing with Uyghur in Xinjiang.
Also Genocide isn’t solely defined by mass murdering of a group, it can also defined by preventing the birth for that group, and transferring the children of that group to another group, basically like what china is doing. It can also defined by imposing rule specific for that group that make their life miserable and effectively destroy it, like what Israel did to Gaza right now.
Turkey and Greece exchanged each other’s ethnicities post WWI and War for Turkish independence, ethnic cleansing but not necessarily genocidal.
Yet for some reason there are 0 greeks in Turkey atm and 200k muslims in Greece, most of which selfidentify as ethnic turks. I wonder what happened, i guess we will never know. Oh wait, we do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_pogrom
Also weirdly enough, sanctioned by international mediation because shit was weird back then
It’s not weird, greeks and turks have murdered shitload of each others civilians.
After Greece’s “Great Idea” plan(conquering Western Turkey) got crashed, Greece wanted to protect the surviving greeks in Turkey from further reprisals. So both sides decided to partially exchange populations while protecting the remaining minorities. Eventually(30 years later) Turkey decided they didnt want any greeks left in Turkey and violated the deal. Greece on the other hand just kept being shitty to ethnic turks living in Greece but at least they are mostly ok now.
Most greeks are aware of civilian turks getting murdered. I am not so sure turks are aware of the civilian greeks slaughtered. This “exchange” ended 3000+ year of continuous presence(with majority or almost majority percentages) of ethnic greeks in Anatolia(Western Turkey).
They are not genociding, they are just removing palestinians from areas, they are ethnic cleansing those areas. This is a pretty standard nation building tactic, except most, european, nations did it in the past, while Israel is doing it now. Azerbaijan did it too with their armenian enclave in Nagorno Karabakh. The armenians “voluntarily” left the region and now there are basically 0 armenians there.
Genocide focuses more on the destruction of people.
“Voluntary”. Yeah sure. We’ll threaten, harass and attack you on the streets, prevent you from getting or keeping a job, destroy your trees and gardens, only allow you a trickle of electricity, prevent you from harvesting rainwater and only allowing tainted water through, prevent effective sewage treatment, starve your hospitals of personnel and supplies, isolate your movements, steal your house and land, bomb your neighborhood into a concrete hellscape, and murder your family and friends. But yeah, sure, it’s a “voluntary” relocation.
Where are the local IDF apologists?
I would love to hear the spin on this one.
Fugg is this?!?
