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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  • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    so, are we only allowed to say ‘genocide’ when criticizing democrats? but when republicans do it “it’s not a genocide, it’s ethnic cleansing”.

    • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      20 minutes ago

      so, are we only allowed to say ‘genocide’ when criticizing democrats?

      Biden is complicit in genocide.

      but when republicans do it “it’s not a genocide, it’s ethnic cleansing”.

      Trump did call for ethnic cleansing. It’s good people are calling him out on this, because that is what he did. The issue is that we should all be calling him out on genocide as well. There is no such thing as a peaceful ethnic cleansing. So when Trump called for ethnic cleansing it was also a call for genocide. I found this relevant quote on wiki:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing

      “How could ‘forced deportation’ ever be achieved without extreme coercion, indeed violence? How, indeed, could deportation not be forced? How could people not resist? How could it not involve the destruction of a community, of the way of life that a group has enjoyed over a period of time? How could those who deported a group not intend this destruction? In what significant way is the forcible removal of a population from their homeland different from the destruction’ of a group? If the boundary between ‘cleansing’ and genocide is unreal, why police it?”

      Peaceful ethnic cleansing is an oxymoron. Peace is mutually exclusive from forceful relocation.

      I will update my above comment to reflect this.

      • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        14 minutes ago

        It’s important that we make it clear that there is no way to do an ethnic cleansing without genocide. I’ve updated my comment.