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Comment by SauciestGNU

6 days ago

Forced displacement and ethnic cleansing is a core component of genocide, you're making a distinction without a difference.

I am somewhat late, but you're completely wrong. To engage in metaphors, cutting someone is a core component of surgery. This does not make surgery, even if failed and lethal, murder. To engage your point, genocide does not require displacement, hence displacement cannot be a core component of genocide. Genocide is the eradication of a people. Moving a people does not eradicate them. There is no reason to conflate the two. (There is, but it's mostly for political reasons).

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  • The surrounding Arab states already ethnically cleansed the indigenous Jews from the majority of the Middle East.

    • Israel put in a lot of work to induce Arab Jews to migrate. That includes false flag attacks on synagogues. Surprised you don't know this.

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    • Jews and arabs lived there peacefully together for hundreds if not thousands of years ... until the British arrived and started their games...

  • Which is a reasonable position, given that the Jews within this specific locale are mostly homicidal maniacs.

    Given the context, Palestinians wanting to kill every last Israeli Jew is a totally defensible position. It’s a natural reaction to a band of murderous European invaders coming to occupy their homes.