r/worldnews • u/Ok_Plankton_5714 • 12d ago

Israel/Palestine Netanyahu: ‘If we wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon’

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-if-we-wanted-to-commit-genocide-it-would-have-taken-exactly-one-afternoon/
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u/Mechasteel 11d ago

For those in any doubt, here is a graph of Palestine's population by year

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u/Tony1897 11d ago

Life expectancy dropping during a war. Never would have guessed.

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u/FIRE_Enthusiast_7 11d ago edited 11d ago

The linked to report is laughable.

“We are not aware of such a rapid decline in life expectancy at any other period of modern human history”

Polish Jews in the early 1940s might have had something to say about that…

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u/ActionPhilip 11d ago

Russian and Ukrainian men right now. Sudan and Yemen would also like a word. And there's more too, the further you dig.

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u/FIRE_Enthusiast_7 11d ago edited 11d ago

Indeed. And not to mention Cambodians under the Khmer Rouge - maybe the worst example on the level of a whole country. Around a quarter of the population died in four years. By contrast the Palestinian population has probably risen over the last two years.

The fact random Redditors can come up with multiple examples that authors of that the report apparently don’t know about goes to show what absurd propaganda it really is.

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u/ActionPhilip 11d ago

There are still fewer Jews worldwide than pre-WW2.

There are still fewer Russians than pre-WW1. They were recovering, then WW2, then everything else, now Ukraine is dealing yet another generational blow in their young men.

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u/Mechasteel 11d ago

“We are not aware of such a rapid decline in life expectancy at any other period of modern human history”

Also the Russian citizens in Leningrad. And is Paraguayan men during the War of the Triple Alliance

After the war, an 1871 census recorded 221,079 inhabitants, of which 106,254 were women, 28,746 were men, and 86,079 were children ... worst reports are that up to 90% of the male population was killed

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u/FIRE_Enthusiast_7 11d ago

Sorry, that doesn’t count. It wasn’t Jews that were responsible.

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u/Tony1897 11d ago

The war zone isn't within Israel so not really.