• YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes, but their intentions are a forced migration or population transfer. Saying cleaning or genocide means the wholesale murder of the population. So you’re using loaded language which is weakening your argument.

    Israel has made it clear they no longer welcome Palestinians along their border. They have been working with neighbors to accept them and essentially the two state option is no longer an option. That isn’t ethnic cleansing or genocide, that is a population transfer.

    Now had both sides worked together and forged a diplomatic relationship the two state option would have been successful, but that didn’t occur. Both sides were continually hostile to one another. Now the Palestinian people are going to be relocated and will once again be stateless.

    • jet@hackertalks.com
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      1 year ago

      ethnic cleansing Wiktionary

      The mass expulsion or killing of people belonging to one ethnic group by those of another.

      It seems we’re using different definitions of ethnic cleansing. I present to you the dictionary and Wikipedia.

      Wikipedia

      Forced relocation of the population, is ethnic cleansing by definition.

      I’m using dictionary definitions, internationally agreed definitions, I’m using the words as their intended in international law and in common usage. I believe that strengthens my argument