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'100-200,000, not two million': Israel's finance minister envisions depopulated Gaza (www.haaretz.com)
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[+] -26 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Where was it stated that the goal was to kill 90% of the population?

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It is not possible to move 1.8 million people out of a region like Gaza without mass death. This is not some secret information that Israel doesn't know. The state of Israel has demonstrated at every possible opportunity that at best it does not care and at worst that's the goal.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    It is not possible to move 1.8 million people out of a region like Gaza without mass death.

    Ok, but that still doesn't justify the specific claim that the guy in question here wants to kill 90% of the population.

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  • [+] -15 points 2 years ago (8 children)
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  • [+] -29 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    No shit. I read a portion of the transcribed interview where the finance minister was talking about this and what he was advocating was mass emigration. That's also super shitty, but it's not at all the same as murdering millions of people.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Forcibly deporting people is genocide

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    especially when it is not possible for them to emigrate. Forcing Gazans to emigrate to Egypt, when you are neither Gazans nor Egyptians is ridiculous at best. Next will be the Israeli governments saying "we took care of them for this long, now it is domeone else's turn."

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It is essentially the same, it would result in the deaths of thousands. Even the Nazis tried to relocate Jewish people and realized it wasn't feasible. The people advocating for relocation know this.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    “What we do not understand is that while there were protests against Germany’s defensive action in this field, there was, on the other hand, no willingness to absorb the excess Jewish population emigrating from Germany.”

    • Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of propaganda.

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