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Can we not call it genocide, or murder? Cleansing doesn’t sound right
Ethnic cleansing is a type of genocide.
I know, but it just sounds too euphemistic
The point where we have to split hairs about which exactly crime against humanity a country is perpetrating, that is kind of the point where that country should be the target of externally enforced deradicalization.
It's also been described as a genocide within a genocide
“What is happening in northern Gaza now is a genocide within the genocide,” Palestinian Ambassador Majed Bamya, the deputy permanent observer to the UN, wrote on X.
After a year of pushing the limits Israel knows Biden will let him get away with anything. It's genocide in plain sight now. No need to hide it.
Israel is pure evil. It should be abandoned so the locals can eject the settlers without interference from the West.
Yeah, well, the most racist Western states (such as the US, UK and Germany) all support the Last White Colonialist State in the World against the "violent" locals who "don't have Western values" (i.e. are not White).
If there's one thing this has shown is that the power elites in some Western countries still have the very same values as they did back in the late 1900s (which in the case of Germany is the same kind of thinking that fueled Nazism).
abducting many of them to unknown locations.
Remember when Serbia also separated the men and women and then sent the men to "watch a a reeducation film" (gun them down in waves).
No way the IDF is taking prisoners...
Bosnia at least made it out with a counteroffensive. Gaza is stateless and utterly screwed.
Not unlike the massacres by the IDF during the Nakba, infact these massacres are at an even greater scale at this point
Spoiler
This is how a Jewish officer described the executions at Tantura:
Prisoners were led in groups to a distance of 200 metres aside and there they were shot. Soldiers would come to the commander-in-chief and say, ‘My cousin was killed in the war.’ His commander heard that and instructed the troops to take a group of five to seven people aside and execute them. Then a soldier came and said his brother had died in one of the battles. For one brother the retribution was higher. The commander ordered the troops to take a larger group and they were shot, and so on.
In other words, what took place in Tantura was the systematic execution of able-bodied young men by Jewish soldiers and intelligence officers. One eyewitness, Abu Mashaykh, was staying in Tantura with a friend, as he originally came from Qisarya, the village Jewish troops had already destroyed and expelled in February 1948. He saw with his own eyes the execution of eighty-five young men of Tantura, who were taken in groups of ten and then executed in the cemetery and the nearby mosque. He thought even more were executed, and estimated that the total number could have been 110. He saw Shimshon Mashvitz supervising the whole operation: ‘He had a “Sten” [sub-machine gun] and killed them.’ Later he adds: ‘They stood next to the wall, all facing the wall. He came from the back and shot them in the head, all of them.’ He further testified how Jewish soldiers were watching the executions with apparent relish.
Fawzi Muhammad Tanj, Abu Khalid, also witnessed the executions. In the account he gives the village men were separated from the women, and then groups of seven to ten were taken and executed. He witnessed the killing of ninety people.