Arab countries flatly reject Trump's Gaza takeover proposal

[tyfud@lemmy.world]

trump is the shit that landed on the board

[wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world]

Well, but there is a pretty significant difference. For example, when the Nazis were planning to send all the German Jews to Madagascar, they were attempting an ethnic cleansing, meaning 'just' their removal - They didn't care when Jews died, but it wasn't their actual plan to slaughter them all. However, when the Madagascar Plan didn't seem possible anymore, they switched to genocide in stead, meaning their extermination.

There is a incredibly huge difference between these two things. And please don't get me wrong, they are both absolutely, unequivocally horrific. Unacceptable, period. But still this difference is important, especially for the victims. In hindsight, I'm sure many people would have wished the Nazis had been successful in their ethnic cleansing. Many more people would have survived.

What Israel has been doing is not ethnic cleansing. They've been systematically killing people for no other reason than "because we want to and we can." I'd call that a genocide. What Trump is describing, however, is ethnic cleansing.

And just to reiterate, I'm not saying it's not bad. It's sickeningly bad. But quite different.

[moon@lemmy.ml]

It was a quid pro quo with the Trump transition team. He gave them a big win and made Biden look ineffectual on the way out. Then Trump got into office and rewarded Bibi with a very very favourable outcome

[but_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world]

I’ve been around a while and I find it funny that Arab nations are now morally grandstanding on behalf of Palestine to gain points.
These nations hate and look down on Palestinians and have refused to help refugees for decades. They speak about Palestinians as if they were subhuman.

I’m glad they’re calling out Trump, but don’t think they actually care about Palestinians.

[flabbergast@lemmy.world]

Napalm Beach?

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Genocide includes displacement, and does not necessarily require killing (at least per the UN definition)

[prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I think ethnic cleansing is more about displacement over straight up murder. However, this is still considered genocide per the UN definition.

[teslasaur@lemmy.world]

This is what i've come to know too from talking to Palestinian refugees in Sweden. They have never been treated so bad as they where in the interim when they were in Egypt.

[but_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world]

I’m Central American and had a conversation with a Palestinian coworker about how similar that is to us and Mexico. Mexico always complains about the treatment of Mexican immigrants by the u.s (rightfully so) but if you’re south or Central American, it’s the Mexican police and government that is most brutal to immigrants from southern countries.
The u.s doesn’t treat immigrants half as bad as Mexico does

[jeebaichow@lemmy.world]

Can't read the article. Too busy watching leopards eat Gazan faces for dinner.