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[–] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 201 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Encouraging Jews to leave "voluntarily" was Hitler's first step, too. Then when most people don't want to leave their homes, you justify your escalation by saying you gave them a chance.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah and back then it was Zionists who collaborated with him to populate Palestine with 60,000 German Jews.

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[–] ImTryingLemmy@lemmy.world 106 points 2 years ago (58 children)

Saying the quiet part out loud again. Forced relocation through either terror or expatriation is Ethnic Cleansing. Ethnic Cleansing may fall under the Genocide Convention.

WTF?

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[–] detalferous@lemm.ee 71 points 2 years ago (13 children)

So he wants to kill 90% of the populace in a geographical region.

How does anyone deny this is genocide?

[–] zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 years ago

I think their goal is to displace 90% into Egypt and kill the rest. Still genocide.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 69 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"We won't do genocide, but what about 90% genocide?"

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Is it really genocide if there's at least a few left?

[–] livus@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Of course it is. There are still Armenians, German Jewish people, Rwandan Tutsis, Rohingya, and no one disputes that they were genocided.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We're all being ironic, I think. In reality, if your goal is to make an ethnic group smaller so you don't have to deal with them as much, that's genocide, or at least ethnic cleansing. No specific number is required.

Also, FYI, Jews across continental Europe had a bad time. Anywhere the Nazis went genocide followed, so you don't really need to specify German.

[–] livus@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ethnic cleansing is the forceable displacement of ethnic-group populations. Deliberately killing members of an ethnic group (or otherwise trying to destroy that group) is genocide, but unfortunately nations and news outlets are shy about using that word, so the overlap has led to confusion of the two terms.

FYI

Thanks, point worth making. My list wasn't meant to be exhaustive. Jewish people had a bad time in that continent long before Nazis as well. Hell even some of the early Crusaders went and committed genocide against Jewish towns in the Rhineland Massacres of the 11th century.

I was just cherry-picking a few obvious genocides to illustrate my point, in case the person above was being serious.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I know it's dark humor, and I kind of hate myself for even thinking this. But now I'm seeing a far side style comic with a group of soldiers standing around, arguing over not wanting to kill the last Palestinian, because that's what makes it genocide.

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[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 67 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Okay hear me out, what if, after you make sure each person isn’t hamas, you tattoo their arm, and…

[–] Mir@programming.dev 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes and maybe make it trackable, like a number or a barcode, just to make sure

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 26 points 2 years ago

I believe IBM could help with this.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Maybe it could be a yellow-colored religious symbol, worn as a mandatory patch by Palestinians on a highly visible place on their clothes.

[–] jinarched@lemm.ee 40 points 2 years ago

What the fuck. Fucking sickos.

[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 31 points 2 years ago (19 children)

The US is really fucked up on this. I mean Israel is a tactical ally, but how do you turn a blind eye to genocide?

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 years ago

Goebbels really has some crazy ideas there

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It looks like Zionists were taking notes during the Holocaust

“What we do not understand is that while there were protests against Germany’s defensive action in this field, there was, on the other hand, no willingness to absorb the excess Jewish population emigrating from Germany.”

• Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of propaganda.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Well, it's always nice when Israeli ministers by their own public words provide evidence of culpability for the case against Israel that just started in the International Court of Justice.

[–] pezhore@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

I wonder if he literally meant 100, not 100,000.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

All of them there just to do menial labor for Israelis that move in and elsewhere. Just enough for housekeepers and their families.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I don't know the context, but I doubt he was expressing a fear of his, somehow. I just wanted to say he's got a very punchable face in that picture.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

It's time to dismantle the Israeli state.

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