'100-200,000, not two million': Israel's finance minister envisions depopulated Gaza

3 years ago by NightOwl to c/worldnews

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Aidinthel 207 points 3 years 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.

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queermunist 52 points 3 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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CanadaPlus -35 points 3 years ago

It's annoying making the comparison derails the conversation so much. Yeah, sure, one of the ethnicities involved happens to be repeating and that sucks, but that's the one genocide people know stuff about.

Edit: Lol, didn't expect this to get downvoted. Why?

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harmsy 10 points 3 years ago

I think the downvotes are from people with poor reading comprehension. Like the guy who thought you were laughing about genocide.

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CanadaPlus 7 points 3 years ago

Maybe, but communication is a two-way street. If everyone is having trouble reading my stuff I need to make it simpler.

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sndmn -3 points 3 years ago

Genocide is funny to you?

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CanadaPlus 6 points 3 years ago

What!? Where did I say that??

I was complaining that you can't compare the Holocaust to the current situation in Israel-Palestine at all, even when they do the exact same stuff, or a lot of people freak out.

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youCanCallMeDragon 15 points 3 years ago

People should freak out. If Israel succeeds in eradicating Palestine that will by definition be a holocaust. When you do the exact same things, you get compared.

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sndmn -2 points 3 years ago
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ImTryingLemmy 119 points 3 years 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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Slotos -3 points 3 years ago

The primary genocide requirement is intent. Instead of throwing “maybes” around, you should spend a minute or two to read the convention in full instead of polluting the discourse.

Especially now that the intent is clearly stated by a government official.

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Melkath -16 points 3 years ago

We are there.

I will vote for Joe Biden if he publicly condemns Israel. From his lips. In an address to the nation.

I will not if he doesn't.

Simple as that.

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jabjoe 34 points 3 years ago

It's a two party system. You vote Biden or get Trump. Trump has less problem with ethnic cleansing. If fact Trump is the kind that might try it in the US.

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TimLovesTech 14 points 3 years ago

He already has plans for it, and using the military to do it. He has made it clear he plans to go full fascist right from day one if he were to win again. It's his only way to not spend the rest of his life in prison (and he loves the idea of being a dictator).

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jabjoe 3 points 3 years ago

I think if he tries that, the US breaks down as there is no way everyone will go with it.

Trump winning is a win for the enemies of the US and a win for the enemies of the wider free world.

Edit: Add a few words for clarity.

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BradleyUffner 10 points 3 years ago

So Biden is allowed to do whatever he wants, we are obligated to vote for him, as long as he's just a tiny bit less bad than trump would be?

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jimbo 7 points 3 years ago
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jabjoe 1 point 3 years ago

That's why the system has to change. Trump will change the system, but not the way you want at all.

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kaffiene -1 points 3 years ago
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Melkath 1 point 3 years ago

Ya, Independent, Green, Libertarian, Constitution.

Those parties don't exist.

The genocidal fascist whose boots you're licking told you so.

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jabjoe 1 point 3 years ago

Well good luck with that. I hope you guys don't vote in Trump again, for all our sake.

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go_go_gadget -3 points 3 years ago

Trump isn't winning the Republican primary.

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jabjoe 3 points 3 years ago

Be certainly be good of Republicans come back from the edge. If the players are more balanced, the system can start to be adjusted to get away from being just Red vs Blue.

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queermunist -5 points 3 years ago

What's the point of living if I have to vote for genocide?

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jabjoe -2 points 3 years ago

You think Trump is less pro-genocide? Until you can change the system, you end up choosing who you think is less genocidy.

Edit: spelling

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Ashyr 13 points 3 years ago

Idiotic reason to vote for Trump who is far worse toward Palestine.

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hglman 16 points 3 years ago

Then the democratic party should make the most basic effort to condemn genocide. I wont vote for the support of genocide. It's really not a high bar. It's frankly pathetic that you are suggesting we have accept that. That makes you explicitly in support of the ethnic cleansing of gaza and the people of Palestine. You are evil.

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bitrate 1 point 3 years ago

In the US no vote is a republican vote. I know you don't like to hear it but its the way it is. The fewer people that vote the higher their chances go up.

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Ashyr 1 point 3 years ago

I'm evil? Strong language for someone suggesting Trump is a worse alternative than Biden.

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Eldritch 0 points 3 years ago

Plenty of them are. But you're willing to toss them all out with a figurehead. The AICP is currently campaigning against several Democrats for calling out the genocide .Yeah Biden's out of touch and a bit problematic. But this is the height of self-defeating virtue signaling. Not that it has stopped a lot of you in the past. San timoniously and hypocritically criticizing everyone else while doing nothing to make the situation actually better. Soothing your own conscience with trying to convince yourself that you're meaningless gesture was worth it.

Biden is what we are saddled with and it could be far worse. You need to take care of business this election cycle and the moment it's over start pushing better people for 2028 or sooner.

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Melkath -7 points 3 years ago

Stop doing that you insufferable pea-brained dolt.

Not voting for Biden doesn't mean I'm voting for Trump.

Idiots like you sit there like your vote is a party popper you MUST use to show if your streamers and confetti are blue or red.

I am disgusted with the options I am presented with. I get no streamers or confetti...

Unless Biden condemns the Israeli genocide of Palestine and champions imposing massive embargoes on Israel while fully ceasing any funding in full.

Then I might believe he (and the DNC) are humbling WAY the fuck up, listening to their constituents, and correcting course is the SMALLEST of ways.

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ashok36 6 points 3 years ago

I vote for anyone but Biden, or even a no vote, is a vote for Trump.

If you think Palestine is in bad shape under Biden, try to imagine how much worse it'd be with Trump.

The only way to get Democrat candidates on the left is to crush the right wing so that the Overton window moves.

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wolfshadowheart 5 points 3 years ago

I ask you, if there is one party that tries you stop you from voting in any way they can, doesn't you not voting play into their hand?

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Buffaloaf 8 points 3 years ago

I don't think any presidential candidate would do that, even if that's how they really felt. It'd be political suicide.

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Melkath 24 points 3 years ago

You don't think any candidate would condemn genocide. Condemning genocide as a US presidential candidate is suicide...

Isn't that how fucked America is in a nutshell.

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nomous 4 points 3 years ago

I don't believe you would at all tbh.

Just another concern troll pretend you give a fuck.

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bitrate 3 points 3 years ago

You think having a Republican president is going to improve the situation?

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Melkath 1 point 3 years ago

If I were in Nazi Germany and my choices were Hitler, a genocidal maniac or Himmler, a genocidal maniac, I would not vote for a genocidal maniac.

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detalferous 71 points 3 years ago

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

How does anyone deny this is genocide?

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zbyte64 28 points 3 years ago

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

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jimbo -21 points 3 years ago
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paris 42 points 3 years ago

It is not possible to move 1.8 million people out of a region like Gaza without mass death. This is not some secret information that Israel doesn't know. The state of Israel has demonstrated at every possible opportunity that at best it does not care and at worst that's the goal.

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jimbo 1 point 3 years ago
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quo -10 points 3 years ago
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jimbo -24 points 3 years ago
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rambaroo 20 points 3 years ago

Forcibly deporting people is genocide

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BleatingZombie 12 points 3 years ago

So you're saying the Trail of Tears was perfectly fine and not seen as Genocide? I think you're wrong and a blind fool

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tocopherol 9 points 3 years ago

It is essentially the same, it would result in the deaths of thousands. Even the Nazis tried to relocate Jewish people and realized it wasn't feasible. The people advocating for relocation know this.

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bradorsomething 69 points 3 years ago

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

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Mir 33 points 3 years ago

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

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ShaggySnacks 29 points 3 years ago

I believe IBM could help with this.

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Aceticon 6 points 3 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.

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CanadaPlus 66 points 3 years ago

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

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jordanlund 34 points 3 years ago

95% tops!

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ikidd 27 points 3 years ago

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

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livus 11 points 3 years ago

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

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CanadaPlus 10 points 3 years 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 6 points 3 years 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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ikidd 1 point 3 years ago

Sometimes my sense of humour seems lost on some people. Maybe because I was raised on Far Side.

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Melkath 1 point 3 years ago

Yes, but then the countries of the world need to brutally stomp out the aggressor of the genocide, and need to forcibly give the victims of the genocide the plot of land they claim as their original home.

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SuddenDownpour 66 points 3 years ago

Yet again,

But remember, not a genocide.

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jinarched 38 points 3 years ago

What the fuck. Fucking sickos.

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phoenixz 26 points 3 years ago

Goebbels really has some crazy ideas there

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Aceticon 13 points 3 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.

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pezhore 11 points 3 years ago

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

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RememberTheApollo_ 8 points 3 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.

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some_guy 5 points 3 years ago

It's time to dismantle the Israeli state.

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feedum_sneedson 4 points 3 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.

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NeatNit -6 points 3 years ago
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Land_Strider 15 points 3 years ago

To be honest I would argue the sentiment that this approach isn't what most Israeli civilians envisioned for some years now, but seeing as how all actions taken by both IDF and Israeli government, I seriously doubt this guy is alone in his fascist thoughts when he bursts out these inhumane sentiments.

I would advise against defending these genocidal state apparatus, nor mixing the views of civilian population of Israel with these bloodthirsty colonialist monsters.

Israeli people are innocent in this conflict, as are Palestinian people. However, Palestinian people are too poor and oppressed from all sides to make a conscious decision to root out Hamas, so the part of responsibility that falls on them is hard to accomplish. Israeli people, on the other hand, still have enough faculties, although at the brink of destruction by the fear-mongering campaign of Bibi the Genocider, to carry out their part of the responsibility in forming peaceful living by dismantling their current terrorist and fascist government (at the elections at worst).

What I advise is don't try push the blame under a rug by making scapegoats out of a few people while letting the rest ruin the last semblance of your democracy.

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NeatNit -5 points 3 years ago
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nobleart9932 5 points 3 years ago

Yeah, he should have kept a lid on it like everyone else at the Wannsee Conference.

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S_204 -3 points 3 years ago

Mods here taking a Reddit approach to turning the conversation into shit. It's wild to see develop so rapidly, what took years over there.

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flying_sheep -6 points 3 years ago

Thanks. This kind of reality check is very necessary.

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