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Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu expressed support for "voluntary immigration" of Palestinian civilians out of Gaza - the latest coalition lawmaker to suggest such a move.

In an interview on Israeli news site Ynet on Monday, the minister was asked about his support of the proposed transfer of Gazans out of their homes. "This isn't a transfer," he replied. "We are talking about a desire to improve the living situation of Gazans...the ones that refuse to live in these conditions."

Eliyahu's comments elicited laughter from the reporters in the studio, who joked, "Right, right, as if not having a parking spot or an elevator…" The Otzma Yehudit lawmaker also laughed before responding in a more serious tone: "You have taken it to a specific extreme, I took it to a different place. But what we are suggesting is really voluntary immigration."

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[–] meco03211 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But what we are suggesting is really voluntary immigration.

The next suggestion will be involuntary immigration. They want their own Trail of Tears it seems.

[–] givesomefucks 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's already forced relocation and qualifies as a crime against humanity by the UN definition...

They're bombing areas, telling people to leave for a safer area, bombing that, and now saying they should leave the whole country.

To be more specific, it's an ethnic cleansing, which is really just a PC term for genocide.

[–] meco03211 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gotta be honest, I've never heard the term "ethnic cleansing" described as PC. Pretty sure it's used interchangeably with genocide.

[–] Madison420 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically it's different. Genocide is an attempt at violent eradication, a ethnic cleansing is an attempt to remove an ethnicity by force but not necessarily violence. Ie. They're could be a nonviolent ethnic cleansing but there can never be a nonviolent genocide.

[–] meco03211 -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I couldn't help but think of you as an evil dictator for knowing the difference. Like someone explaining the difference between a pedophile and hebephile. I swear I'll take the new knowledge to heart.

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

That's a pretty sad take. Take Nagorno-Karabakh as an example of a (relatively) non-violent ethnic cleansing. Happened only a few months ago.

[–] meco03211 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dafuq you smoking?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_Nagorno-Karabakh_Armenians

Threat of violence is not "non-violence" just because the other side acquiesced.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... and there you have the difference between an ethnic cleansing, actual genocide (Rwanda, Holocaust), forced annexation (Western Sahara,...)

They're all evil, but plz don't be mad some people are able to make the distinction

[–] meco03211 2 points 1 year ago

I wasn't mad. I was making a joke. I appreciated the nuance.

[–] OccamsTeapot 23 points 1 year ago

South Africa's lawyers:

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"We are talking about a desire to improve the living situation of Gazans…the ones that refuse to live in these conditions."

The living conditions that they imposed on them.

What next, load them up into cattle cars for the trip? If irony died when Kissinger got the Nobel Peace Prize, then this is surely desecrating the corpse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Yes, I keep coming in to your house and punching you in the face... but don't worry, I plan to make you leave your house and put you somewhere further away from me."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

So he’s proposing a right of return for Palestinians?

Living in their ancestral home of Israel would certainly be nicer than getting bombed in refugee camps.

[–] Madrigal 17 points 1 year ago

Sure, relocate them into the new unified Israel-Palestine.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So this is israelis final solution to the Gazan question?

Die or flee.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

What if someone suggested that for Israel? They'd be so pissed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Into the settlements that have been built on their land, right? Right?

[–] BustinJiber 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe they should be relocated to Madagascar?...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

…so did the Nazi’s, right before they decided it was all too hard and it was easier to gas them.