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There's no ethnic cleansing.
"Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area"
I'd say we're basically there
Which ethnic group, and where have they been moved? Calling anything that's going on "ethnic cleansing" is propaganda used when the propagandist thinks that "genocide" won't go over well. Israel has moved the population of Gaza around, but not along ethnic, racial, or religious lines.
I don't think it's propaganda? I feel like genocide and ethnic cleansing are different ways of slicing the same flavor of activity by severity. I'd define ethnic cleansing as what I said above, and genocide as that + "with the intent to permanently eliminate the group".
Ethnic group: Palestinians
Religion: Muslims
Where are they getting moved: ping-ponging back and forth between the North and South of the strip, the Israeli's would be even happier to push them into Egypt, but they can't.
Israel has an easy time bc Israeli Jews don't live in Gaza, but if they did, they obviously wouldn't be getting shuffled around the strip. I don't think ethnic cleansing requires there to be unaffected people in the geography to contrast against the effected people.
I genuinely have no idea what's true at this point with this conflict but this is pretty on the nose, even for the Levant gang
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rp31lk7mzo
Certainly not. Dividing a nation and moving all members of one ethnic group to one half while moving all members of another ethnic group to the other is "ethnic cleansing", but it is in no way genocide. However, this is not happening. Gaza is already basically "ethnically spotless". The only ethnic cleansing Israel did in Gaza was in 2005, when it removed its own settlers (often by force), and I don't think that's what anyone means by it now.
There are very few non-Palestinians and/or non-Muslims resident in Gaza, but those who exist have been moved around with the rest.
Amusingly, we got sucked into bickering about definitions, which I had actually hoped to avoid by using "ethnic cleansing" over the much more volatile "genocide". Admittedly, I opened up pretty flippantly, so maybe that was the wrong word, although it felt amusing and volatile in the moment.
My core thesis is that I think shuffling a bunch of humans around an area as you bomb it into gravel in an effort to wipe out an organization who's primary recruiting tool is the anger generated in humans who are being shuffled around an area as its bombed into gravel is equal parts evil and stupid. I don't really care what we call it at the end of the day, there is a metric shitload of human suffering happening, much of which is being deliberately and callously applied.
Gaza is one of the most efficient generators of human suffering I've ever been made aware of. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.
The word you're looking for is"war".
Israel has done other things, up to and including withdrawing both military and civilian populations from the area. Result: Gaza Palestinians elect Hamas to represent them and step up the attacks. The Palestinians are going to hate them and attack them no matter what; the best the Israelis can do (short of actual genocide) is degrade their ability to do so.
If you're stuck in a permanent war against an enemy you profoundly outclass militarily, economically, culturally, and politically, at a certain point you are responsible for the ongoing outcomes.
I should be clear, I am no defender of the Palestinians, they are absolutely awful insane irrational neighbors. I am deeply thankful I live nowhere near a Muslim theocracy. While I rate the Israeli reconciliation attempts as "mediocre at best", they have tried, both sides are profoundly irrational at this point.
I think the answer to this is some flavor of Marshall plan + perhaps a rather invasive CCP-style police state to give young Palestinians a taste/goal of a better life while ensuring that the smallest possible % of GDP is turned into ballistic rockets. Also things like "not constantly encroaching on the West Bank with settler communities" would probably help as that rather calls into question the good faith nature of one of the sides.
Certainly you are not responsible for the enemy. They're the enemy.
You cannot have a Marshall plan until the enemy surrenders. They have not and will not. I do not believe Israel has the capacity to take them over and completely remake their culture, nor would the "international community" accept them doing so.
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