• YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world
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    Israel wants to relocate a ethnic people. Certain group like to call that genocide because it sounds worse. Genocide actually means killing off a ethnic group. Population transfer is what Israel wants to do.

    Latin: genos (race or tribe) and cide (killing).

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          Ethnic cleansing is a component of genocide.

          I think the politicians and diplomats who got together in 1948 were cognizant of that.

          Consider

          You ethnically cleanse a population, they resist, fighting breaks out. The ethnic cleansing moves into a pogrom, repeat… Genocide.

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            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.

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              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

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                That’s loaded language which is a falsification what is actually occurring.

                We all agree that Israel wants to relocate the Palestinian people outside of their border. It’s agreed that Israel has no intention of murdering or enslaving the population. That’s not cleansing, that’s a forced migration or population transfer.

                We all know why you want to use loaded language because it generates a image in the minds of low information people of murder and enslavement.

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                  It’s literally the definition of the phrase.

                  Ethnically cleansing an area, is ensuring an ethnicity is removed, or cleansed from the area.

                  I’m sorry you disagree with the dictionary, reality must be really difficult to deal with. But we have to deal with the reality we’re presented with, and not the reality we would like

                  I did not agree with you on either of those statements.

                  You haven’t brought it up, but I might as well head off the next issue, it is a genocide:

                  https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide

                  It is agreed that it is a genocide