Radical Graffiti"Ethnic cleansing is not self-defence"
Pasteups in Paris
Pasteups in Paris
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biplane@notwithstanding @RadicalGraffiti Now compare the chart of Palestinian population outside the West Bank and Gaza before and since the Nakba to the second chart, maybe?
@biplane @RadicalGraffiti that partitioning was mandated by the UN resolution 181 - the two state solution, to which Arab states responded with invasion and war.
@notwithstanding @RadicalGraffiti I'm familiar with it. However, I'm not certain where the fact that the United Nations endorsed ethnic cleansing changes the fact that forced population transfers are ethnic cleansing?
Would the expulsion of Jews from the Arab states have been fine if it was endorsed by the United Nations? Would it be reasonable to reply with the climbing population of Israel to insist that it's not?
@biplane @RadicalGraffiti the fact that the UN implemented it should tell you that it was not ethnic cleansing. It was allowing an indigenous population to return to where it came from right after it was victim of an actual genocide.
@notwithstanding In what world is forcing the people of a certain ethnicity inhabiting a region their people have lived in for over a thousand years to leave not ethnic cleansing?
What definition of ethnic cleansing does not apply to the Nakba but does to the expulsion of Jews from the Arab states, exactly?
@biplane maybe I will try another oversimplification:
If the Maori had weapons to take New Zealand back, you couldn’t acuse them o “ethnic cleansing” white people.
See?