8 Mar 2024 10:09 pm
Looks like you need to get your notes & bottle of Vodka together and see if you can get a little time at the UN podium, because they don't share your interpretation of what Ethnic Cleansing is... .... The purpose of labeling a country or group's actions as Ethnic cleansing, is so those who perpetrate it can be brought to international courts to be charged and punished... No one has charged Israel of such.Cannonpointer » 08 Mar 2024, 7:47 pm » wrote: ↑ Let's take a time out, Scooter, and turn in our hymnals to the book of Dictionary, Verse 1:
Ethnic cleansing: "the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society"
What part of that are you denying that israel is doing?
Before you slobber, note that the definition does not say ALL members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group. So your squeaky little refrain about there being SOME palis in israel who have not YET been rounded up is not relevant to the definition - any more than the existence of SOME savage redskins in murka would mean that WE did not practice ethnic cleansing on our own savages.
So, are you denying "mass expulsion"? Are you denying "unwanted"? Are you denying "ethnic or religious group"? Or are you denying that israel fits the definition of a "society"?
Which of those elements of ethnic cleansing are you denying fit what israel is doing to the palestinians?
Take your time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wi8Fv0AJA4
Read this Article..... It gives an excellent description / explanation of what the criteria to make the charge of Ethnic Cleansing, as well as examples of Countries who which have been charged with such... In pretty much all the cases of Ethnic Cleansing sited, the Ethnic Cleansing is perpetuated on an Ethnic Minority ----- the Palestinian / Arabs are not the minority in Gaza, nor the West Bank....
https://www.britannica.com/topic/ethnic-cleansing
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The term ethnic cleansing, a literal translation of the Serbo-Croatian phrase etnicko ciscenje, was widely employed in the 1990s (though the term first appeared earlier) to describe the brutal treatment of various civilian groups in the conflicts that erupted upon the disintegration of the Federal Republic of . These groups included Yugoslavia Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) in Bosnia & Herzegovina Serbs in the Krajina region of Croatia, and ethnic Albanians and later Serbs in the Serbian province of Kosovo The term also has been attached to the treatment by Indonesian militants of the people of East Timor, many of whom were killed or forced to abandon their homes after citizens there voted in favour of independence in 1999, and to the plight of Chechens who fled Grozny and other areas of Chechnya following Russian Military operations against Chechen separatists during the 1990s. According to a report issued by the (UN) secretary-general, the frequent occurrence of ethnic cleansing in the 1990s was attributable to the nature of contemporary armed conflicts, in which Ethnic cleansing as a concept has generated considerable controversy. Some critics see little difference between it and genocide.
Examples of ethnic cleansing understood in this sense include the Armenian Massacre by the Turks in 1915–16, the Nazi Holocaust of European Jews in the 1930s and ’40s, the expulsion of Germans from Polish and Czechoslovak territory after WW2 the Soviet Union's deportation of certain ethnic minorities from the Caucasus and Crimea during the 1940s, and the forced migrations and mass killings in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s.