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Israel sends tanks into West Bank for first time in decades; says fleeing Palestinians can't return

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Wake up to the Israel plan to ethnically cleanse all areas of Palestinian people. Here, 40,000 forced to leave, with 7 minutes notice. IDF acted like storm troopers in this "evacuation ".

Look at the death toll of Palestinians in the west bank.

A pregnant woman and a toddler the last victims to be shot and murdered.

IDF "looking into this "....how do you "mistakenly "shoot a toddler ffs ?

Israel sowing hatred everywhere .Sent war planes over the funeral of Hezbollah leader in Lebanon.

Now warning Syria to stay away from the Israel border while Israel continues to attack sites in Syria.

Israel not keeping agreement for prisoner release in Gaza...breaking its word once again.

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The Palestinian Genocide moves to a new front and the US is fully complicit.

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Israel is deepening its crackdown on the Palestinian territory and has said it is determined to stamp out militancy amid a rise in attacks. 

It'S good to see Israel nipping this in the bud,

Wake up to the Israel plan to ethnically cleanse all areas of Palestinian people. 

It's about time, because it is the only path to peace for Israel.

Why should they allow their country to be surrounded by terrorists?

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GuruMickToday  07:15 am JST

Now warning Syria to stay away from the Israel border while Israel continues to attack sites in Syria.

Syria has its own issues of rebuilding to deal with after the overthrow of Assad, so Israel had better leave them alone.

Israel not keeping agreement for prisoner release in Gaza...breaking its word once again.

You didn't think Nutty Yahoo would keep his word, didya?

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Well, at least we can tell our grandkids that we lived through a genocide.

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Well, at least we can tell our grandkids that we lived through a genocide.

Thankfully Israel is putting an end to the genocide perpetuated by the Arabs upon the Jews.

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Netanyahu and Trump are crushing the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank to ethnic cleanse both places.

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Netanyahu and Trump are crushing the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank to ethnic cleanse both places.

It'a part of Israel's self-defense--a very obvious one. No surprises here.

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Albert Einstein said,

I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain—especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state. In Einstein open letter 1948  he deeply criticized Menachem Begin’s Herut Zionist (Freedom) Party for the Deir Yassin Massacre  attributed to "terrorist bands",and likened Herut to "the Naz i and Fascist parties". He further stated, "The Deir Yassin incident exemplifies the character and actions of the Freedom Party". Einstein said of the party that "Today they speak of freedom, democracy and anti-imperialism...It is in its actions that the terrorist party betrays its real character", while also criticizing Zionist Irgun by calling it a "terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization"

Zionism is the Jew’s new “Golden Calf” to worship and follow. Zionism is an ideology of “Egoism” – Me first even if it is at the expensive of others. Blinded by the Golden Calf of Zionism the people of Israel have lost their moral center and in Zionism break most of God’s Ten Commitments. Zionism has come to justified and create a Apartheid - Warsaw like ghetto/prison

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I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state.

The Arabs rejected the creation of a Jewish state--and of another state for the Arabs.

Meanwhile, with the re-creation of Israel, we have Arabs and Jews living together in peace in the creation of that Jewish state.

Looks like Einstein got it wrong.

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Ethnic cleansing is illegal under any circumstance.

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@iknowall

Einstein despite being Jewish and a witness to a holocaust, still found it necessary to opine on the ark ward imposed artificially of a Jewish state-an insightful genius…

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When Bibi and his savage war mongers realize what the rest of the world already have that OCCUPATION with APARTHIED never worked.

Bibi is probably the worst option for peace in the Middle East, Israel will never rest with this fugitive in office.

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Funny how Palestinians are taking photo's with Bibi's Tanks! must have gotten use to this war monger.

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"" Meanwhile, Netanyahu faced new criticism over the war while speaking at a military graduation. As he held up a picture of Shiri Bibas and her young boys, Ariel and Kfir, whose remains were returned from Gaza last week, to demonstrate “what we are fighting against,” audience members called out “Shame!” and “Why didn’t you save them?” The prime minister didn’t react.""

SIMPLE, Bibi Doesn't Care.

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Einstein despite being Jewish and a witness to a holocaust, still found it necessary to opine on the ark ward imposed artificially of a Jewish state-an insightful genius…

He also said:

*“Zionist cause is very close to my heart…. I am very confident of the happy development of the Jewish colony and am glad that there should be a tiny speck on this earth in which the members of our tribe should not be aliens,”.*

Ethnic cleansing is illegal under any circumstance.

Wrong.

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Ethnic cleansing is defined as a crime against humanity under the statutes of both the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

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Denying the truth about the Crimes Against Humanity of the Israeli regime may be a habit for some, but like all bad habits, the consequences are likely to be long term and way worse than the people with them think they could be.

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Ethnic cleansing is defined as a crime against humanity under the statutes of both the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

No. There's no definition of ethnic cleansing under international law.

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"There is no definition of ethnic cleansing under international law "

Maybe, the crimes of the Nazis against Jews and others were similarly not defined WHEN THEY HAPPENED.

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Genocide Convention adopted into International Law in 1948.

So according to one poster, the Jews did not suffer a genocide because the crime had not been CODIFIED/DEFINED at the time of the Holocaust.

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Maybe, the crimes of the Nazis against Jews and others were similarly not defined WHEN THEY HAPPENED.

Anti-semitic irony!

Anyway, what the Nazis did was GENOCIDE.

*The word “genocide” was first coined by Polish lawyer Raphäel Lemkin in 1944 in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. It consists of the Greek prefix genos, meaning race or tribe, and the Latin suffix cide, meaning killing. *Lemkin developed the term partly in response to the Nazi policies of systematic murder of Jewish people during the Holocaust,

Let's ask the UN about ethnic cleansing:.

As ethnic cleansing has not been recognized as an independent crime under international law, there is no precise definition of this concept or the exact acts to be qualified as ethnic cleansing.

https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

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The Arabs rejected the creation of a Jewish state--and of another state for the Arabs.

Why would they accept it? Why should they? How would you feel if someone or some other government told you that you had to surrender your land and live as a refugee so someone of a preferred religion could live there? Any sane nation would object to that.

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"There is no definition of ethnic cleansing under international law "

Ethnic cleansing is illegal under any circumstance.

Wrong

Forcible displacement of a population from their land is one of the definitions of a genocide.

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Iknowall.... but the if term genocide was coined only in 1944...were any crimes committed against Jews before that ?

The argument you make is senseless.

In many legal areas , crimes are defined and put on the statute books, after a number of incidents have been identified .

Strangling /stalking /intimidation etc now part of the "domestic violence " group of identifiable actions.

Maybe some posters are flailing , out of their depth in matters of logic and law and history.

Google wont save you either.

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Why would they accept it? Why should they? How would you feel if someone or some other government told you that you had to surrender your land and live as a refugee so someone of a preferred religion could live there? Any sane nation would object to that.

Your argument does not make sense because the Arabs were not a nation.

Forcible displacement of a population from their land is one of the definitions of a genocide.

Wrong.

But murdering the elderly, families in their homes, babies, just because they're Jewish, is one of the definitions of genocide.

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. but the if term genocide was coined only in 1944...were any crimes committed against Jews before that ?

Yep.

Various Nazi officials were convicted of committing, among other crimes, crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials.

Any other legal aspects I can clear up for you?

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The Vice-President of Herceg-Bosna and five other prominent Bosnian Croats were indicted for the ''Ethnic Cleansing'' of the Lasva Valley Area.

No.

And if you read your own source you will see what they were legally charged with:

"By their acts or omissions" the accused are charged with: 

*Dario KORDIC : crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, violations of the laws or customs of war. *

*Tihofil BLASKIC** : crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, violations of the laws or customs of war. *

*Mario CERKEZ : grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, violations of the laws or customs of war.   *

*Ivan SANTIC, Pero SKOPLJAK and Zlatko ALEKSOVSKI : a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, a violation of the laws or customs of war.*

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"Crimes against humanity " doctrine not codified in the UN until 1945...again, after the crimes were committed.

So no, "Iknowall ", your statement about "ethnic cleansing " not on the statutes doesnt hold water as a means to deny these crimes are not occurring in Palestinian lands.

Do some more work on logic and leave google for another time.

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People use the Bible/Torah to justify certain actions..."God promised us the land ", but ignore other parts of the same book.... "Death by stoning for working on the Sabbath ".

Better be realistic...Israel is a white, Euro, settler colonial project, underwritten by Euro, UK and USA, that disenfranchised the original, long existing people of the land that Zionists seized.

Racism and a belittling of Arab peoples lies at the heart of all the Zionist justifications for the war crimes .

Just be honest about things.

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