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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

US President Donald Trump is facing widespread criticism and accusations of proposing ethnic cleansing after stating that he would like to “just clean out” Gaza and relocate its Palestinian population to neighbouring countries.

Speaking aboard Air Force One during a flight from Las Vegas to Miami on Saturday, Trump described Gaza as a “demolition site” and suggested moving its residents to Jordan and Egypt.

“I’d like Egypt to take people. I’d like Jordan to take people,” Trump said. “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing.”

He added that the move could be either temporary or long-term, saying, “something has to happen”

To everybody who voted against Kamala Harris because she didn't change her stance on Gaza, how does it feel to be played harder than a tenor saxophone?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

Funny that you think Gaza genocide was the reason people didn't vote vs pure laziness. The Gaza thing was a scapegoat for 90% of them.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Genocide is the word you're looking for

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Genocide is a form of ethnic cleansing. V

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Oh I know, but one word has a much bigger social impact than the other.

Its the same difference between molested and raped. You typically see in news headers that an adult male raped a little girl, but an adult women molested a little boy. One sounds much worse than the other, yet both are the same thing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Granted but they're not the same thing. Ethnic cleansing is more broad then genocide, and genocide TECHNICALLY doesn't have to be ethnic cleansing (but as far as I know always has been).

IMO ethnic cleansing in general can be more insidious. If you drive people from their homes and replace them with your own settlers, that's ethnic cleansing. But it's complex enough that the right wing will deny that it is such.

See: Palestine and the West Bank.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

You'll often see Zionists condemn Egypt and Syria for not taking the Palestinians "oh the Palestinians are so bad that even the other Muslim countries won't take them". No, they just don't want to be complicit in ethnic cleansing.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I can't believe there are actually people who are surprised about his 'proposal' at all. Like.. everyone saw this coming, right? Plenty of people have been warning other people for years that Trump would do this sort of shit.

But hey, what do I know. I'm just an alarmist fearmonger. Or whatever they used to call me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don't mean to defend the Democrats, but the Pro-Palestine crowd has been throwing all the blame on the Democratic Party for the Gaza genocide. Which was wrong-headed as it was pretty obvious that the Trump admin would double down on US support to Israel... where the Democrats did do something to resolve the conflict.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Backlash only matters if he or anyone he surrounds himself with actually gives a shit.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Of course it is ethnic cleansing. But in his opinion, it is the good kind of ethnic cleansing. Just like deporting immigrants, or sometimes even Native Americans...

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