Israel Briefs US on Plan for 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Rafah | Common Dreams
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"A military invasion in Rafah would be CATASTROPHIC... There can be no more 'evacuations.' There is no safe place to go," said Oxfam, calling for an immediate cease-fire.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15001340

“Such an invasion could lead to horrific massacres and raise scenarios of a second Nakba,” the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights said recently. “After 200 days of horrific genocidal acts in Gaza, the real objectives of the attack are the continuation of the 76-year-long ongoing Nakba and the erasure and genocidal destruction of the Palestinian people in Gaza. Israel is laying the groundwork to fulfill its settler-colonial plan of colonizing Gaza.”

Human rights defenders have warned that Israel may ultimately seek to ethnically cleanse as many Palestinians as possible from Gaza.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    1238·
    6 months ago

    Please don’t call Israel “the Jews.” I am a Jew and I do not stand with Israel. Israel wants you to think all Jews are Israelis and all Israelis are Jews.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      291·
      6 months ago

      The fun thing with the people downvoting my above comment is that it’s hard to know if they’re pissed off because I don’t support Israel or don’t like that I’m a Jew.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        265·
        6 months ago

        Yep, I’ve never even been to Israel. I don’t particularly want to go other than seeing the archaeology. I was born in Indiana. I have far more in common with Christians from Indiana than I do a Jew from Haifa.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      152·
      6 months ago

      Me too. I’m seriously considering buying a kippah to visually make this point.

      For the sake of completeness, Israel does happen to be Jewish, just like Hamas happens to be Muslim. And yeah, in light of recent history that’s ironic. Hopefully nobody here has forgotten we don’t all agree with our (distant, in my case) relatives.

    • alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      165·
      6 months ago

      I am not a Jew, but I have to recognize that many of the people most fiercely standing up against Israeli human rights violations are Jews.

      In the USA, Bernie Sanders, Robbert Reich and Chuck Schumer are three Jewish politicians that have been very consistent in their messaging.

      • Milk_Sheikh@lemm.eeEnglish
        101·
        6 months ago

        I’d argue they’re notable because they’re Jewish, and are afforded an odd ‘extra legitimacy’ to criticize Israel because of that - until the ‘self hating Jew’ trope is brought out…

        I am constantly disappointed that society as a whole cannot see through the obvious ploys by the hyper-partisans to hijack and disrupt honest discussion by treating all criticism as anti-Semitic

      • girlfreddy@lemmy.caEnglish
        223·
        6 months ago

        So 3 out of 341,352,598 Americans then, according to you. And you feel that’s a fair representation.

        Seems to me you forgot to put on your critical thinking cap today.

        • alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          154·
          6 months ago

          If you can’t tell the difference between a limited number of well known examples and a statistical percentage, then perhaps you shouldn’t lecture others on thinking.

          • girlfreddy@lemmy.caEnglish
            318·
            6 months ago

            If you had provided an analytical statistical source instead of “three well-known individuals” we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

            • NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth
              143·
              6 months ago

              Really? Fighting just to fight? Be better, you knew that that was only supposed to be an example of well known Jewish people standing up against Israel, not a comprehensive breakdown of the whole population.

              I’ll be your fucking huckleberry though, I can fight about stupid shit just to piss people off all day.

              I find it funny and it keeps you from bothering others.

              Bring it

        • atomicorange@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          6 months ago

          Are you disagreeing with the thesis of the comment above, or just critiquing the quality of their data?

          If you disagree with the thesis, can you explain what your position is?

    • bartolomeo@suppo.fiEnglish
      54·
      6 months ago

      There’s a difference between Jews and “the Jews”. Your comment is not at all incorrect but it doesn’t apply to the comment you responded to.

      Some of the Israeli Jews that are commiting genocide right now are decendents of Holocaust survivors, so I would say the irony is definitely there.

    • pumpkinseedoil@feddit.deEnglish
      46·
      6 months ago

      Don’t worry, I usually don’t (and I didn’t say “the Jews”, just “Jews” - big difference, since a “the” in front of it would imply that it’s all while without “the” it’s just a part of them).

      It just was needed in this context for the sake of my comment (the irony would be harder to understand otherwise).

      I apologise