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'100-200,000, not two million': Israel's finance minister envisions depopulated Gaza (www.haaretz.com)

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[-] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 226 points 8 months ago

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 59 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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 128 points 8 months ago

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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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 84 points 8 months ago

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

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago

95% tops!

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago

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

[-] livus@kbin.social 11 points 8 months ago

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 10 points 8 months ago

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.

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[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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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[-] detalferous@lemm.ee 80 points 8 months ago

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

How does anyone deny this is genocide?

[-] zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 8 months ago

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

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[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 78 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Mir@programming.dev 35 points 8 months ago

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

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 31 points 8 months ago

I believe IBM could help with this.

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[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 76 points 8 months ago

Yet again,

But remember, not a genocide.

[-] jinarched@lemm.ee 42 points 8 months ago

What the fuck. Fucking sickos.

[-] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 31 points 8 months ago

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?

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 19 points 8 months ago

If by turn a blind eye you mean supply vast majority of the weapons used to commit the genocide then sure.

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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 31 points 8 months ago

Goebbels really has some crazy ideas there

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

[-] pezhore@lemmy.ml 16 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months 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.