President in effect endorses ethnic cleansing of territory before hosting meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu

Donald Trump has said that Palestinians have “no alternative” but to leave Gaza due to the devastation left by Israel’s war on Hamas, in effect endorsing ethnic cleansing of the territory over the opposition of Palestinians and the neighbouring countries.

Speaking as he prepared to host Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Tuesday, Trump repeated the suggestion that Gaza’s population should be relocated to Jordan and Egypt – something both countries have firmly rejected.

Trump claimed Palestinians would “love to leave Gaza”, telling reporters: “I would think that they would be thrilled.”

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  • @[email protected]English
    1•4 days ago

    There is no meaningful difference between getting rid of a group by forcefully removing them and destroying them.

    Please read that again. There’s a gigantic difference between dead or alive.

    100,000 Armenians were ethnically cleansed in 2023 with less than a dozen civilian deaths. Compared that to the Armenian Genocide at the beginning of the 20th century with a million deaths.

    Using the same term genocide for both is watering down the term. It betrays why it was coined in the first place.

    Of course it’s still a terrible crime.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•2 days ago

      Luis Moreno Ocampo, the inaugural prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, has classified the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians as a second Armenian genocide, and opined that the inaction of the international community encouraged Azerbaijan to act with impunity.[34][35]

      The number of deaths has nothing to do with it. The intent is the same, the only difference between the two genocides is that they were less successful at killing people in the second one. The only people that are helped by defending a distinction between ethnic cleansing and genocide, that does not exist, are the people who want to commit genocide.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•20 hours ago

          Try telling that to the face of someone whose whole family died in the death marches.

          My argument is genocide is bad, ethnic cleansing is bad, and that there is no meaningful difference between the two.

          Your argument is genocide is bad, ethnic cleansing is frowned but somehow less bad, and that there is a meaning distinction between ethnic cleansing and genocide that your argument does not articulate.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•19 hours ago

          Genocide denial is still genocide denial even if your argument uses victims of one genocide to deny that genocide happened to other groups of people.