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'100-200,000, not two million': Israel's finance minister envisions depopulated Gaza (www.haaretz.com)

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[-] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 229 points 11 months ago

Encouraging Jews to leave "voluntarily" was Hitler's first step, too. Then when most people don't want to leave their homes, you justify your escalation by saying you gave them a chance.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 71 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah and back then it was Zionists who collaborated with him to populate Palestine with 60,000 German Jews.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's annoying making the comparison derails the conversation so much. Yeah, sure, one of the ethnicities involved happens to be repeating and that sucks, but that's the one genocide people know stuff about.

Edit: Lol, didn't expect this to get downvoted. Why?

[-] harmsy@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

I think the downvotes are from people with poor reading comprehension. Like the guy who thought you were laughing about genocide.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 11 months ago

Maybe, but communication is a two-way street. If everyone is having trouble reading my stuff I need to make it simpler.

[-] sndmn@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

Genocide is funny to you?

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 11 months ago

What!? Where did I say that??

I was complaining that you can't compare the Holocaust to the current situation in Israel-Palestine at all, even when they do the exact same stuff, or a lot of people freak out.

[-] youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

People should freak out. If Israel succeeds in eradicating Palestine that will by definition be a holocaust. When you do the exact same things, you get compared.