• t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    If Israel wanted to ethnically cleanse they could have been more efficient

    This argument keeps getting thrown around, as though doing "only some" ethnic cleansing is not still ethnic cleansing or something. China could also exterminate all Uyghurs in Xinjiang at once if they wanted, but that doesn’t make their genocide of Uyghurs any less of a genocide either. Israeli government officials have said in plain terms that they think Palestinians should be moved to the Sinai desert or that other nations should let them take refuge (from Israel) in their states. That is literally advocating ethnic cleansing.

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      8 months ago

      Oct 7 was also “some ethnic cleansing”. Hamas didn’t even pretend otherwise.

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        8 months ago

        Sure. But what’s your point? Are you saying that makes it more okay for Israel to do it to Palestinians? Otherwise, it just seems like ‘whataboutism’.