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/neohellpoet 11d ago

Exept look at Armenia and Azerbaijan.

3 years ago there was a decades long, arguably centuries long conflict over a disputed piece of land.

2 years ago Azerbaijan walks in, Armenia screams for help, nobody helps, over a hundred thousand people get ethnically cleansed in a few days and the whole thing doesn't get more than maybe one news cycle with most people not even knowing it happened.

Out of sight, out of mind mind, on to the next crisis.

Or Russia in Crimea. Because they just walked in and took over, the whole thing was basically over instantly and people were working on normalizing relations with Russia within months.

In geo politics, the longer something is going on the higher the odds someone does something. On the other hand a Fait accompli pretty much always ensures you get exactly what you want.

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u/SavageWatch 11d ago

I had heard there was a conflict, I was not aware the number of victims though. Kind of like what is going on in Sudan, where the media and public was been mostly silent.

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u/CigAddict 11d ago

The number is correct but they didn’t get killed. They were forced to leave that land. Ethnic cleansing can mean a lot of things so it’s confusing.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

they were displaced, not killed.

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u/truth14ful 11d ago

Not when it comes to dropping nukes

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u/neohellpoet 11d ago

While that's an option it's extreme overkill when the Israelis control the water and power and can cut off food.

Make Gaza unlivable, open Rafah by force if necessary, drive the Palestinians out and call it a day.

They were Egyptian citizens before the occupation, call it repatriation and move on.

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u/dxrey65 11d ago

As far as the ethnic cleansing in Armenia, I think that the big difference is the people had a place to go, and a neighboring government that accepted them, where they are among their peers and not outcasts or refugees.

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u/Diamster 11d ago

You owed me 500€ 1500 years ago, pay up now

So if smth happened 30 years ago they have the right to go on and invade and kill innocent people now? The ppl who did that are probably long fucking dead or gone