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Originally Posted by blankall
Here's a legit question. If Israel wanting a Jewish state is genocide, isn't the same true of the Palestinians? They show maps with a Palestinian state that encompasses all of Israel and chant for Palestinians freedom from the "river to the sea". If having a country free of an enemy nation is genocide, does promoting the Palestinian cause also not equate to genocide?
Basically, genocide is okay, as long as you are the one with the proper land rights?
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First of all, creating an exclusively Jewish state in place of the Palestinian population is absolutely genocide. I understand that the way Israel is now, the population is a bit of a mixed bag, however, denying rights to the Palestinians in the occupied territories while building settlements that are Jewish only, point to a different end goal.
Second of all, being Palestinian, in essence isn't an ethnoreligious identity. You can be a Jewish, Christian, Muslim, atheist, etc. Palestinian that does or doesn't speak Arabic. You can't be a Muslim Arab Jew.
Finally, I don't think anyone in here is advocating the removal of any population from their homes.