Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu expressed support for “voluntary immigration” of Palestinian civilians out of Gaza - the latest coalition lawmaker to suggest such a move.
In an interview on Israeli news site Ynet on Monday, the minister was asked about his support of the proposed transfer of Gazans out of their homes. “This isn’t a transfer,” he replied. “We are talking about a desire to improve the living situation of Gazans…the ones that refuse to live in these conditions.”
Eliyahu’s comments elicited laughter from the reporters in the studio, who joked, “Right, right, as if not having a parking spot or an elevator…” The Otzma Yehudit lawmaker also laughed before responding in a more serious tone: “You have taken it to a specific extreme, I took it to a different place. But what we are suggesting is really voluntary immigration.”
Technically it’s different. Genocide is an attempt at violent eradication, a ethnic cleansing is an attempt to remove an ethnicity by force but not necessarily violence. Ie. They’re could be a nonviolent ethnic cleansing but there can never be a nonviolent genocide.
I couldn’t help but think of you as an evil dictator for knowing the difference. Like someone explaining the difference between a pedophile and hebephile. I swear I’ll take the new knowledge to heart.
That’s a pretty sad take. Take Nagorno-Karabakh as an example of a (relatively) non-violent ethnic cleansing. Happened only a few months ago.
Dafuq you smoking?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_Nagorno-Karabakh_Armenians
Threat of violence is not “non-violence” just because the other side acquiesced.
… and there you have the difference between an ethnic cleansing, actual genocide (Rwanda, Holocaust), forced annexation (Western Sahara,…)
They’re all evil, but plz don’t be mad some people are able to make the distinction
I wasn’t mad. I was making a joke. I appreciated the nuance.