Conflict between Palestine and Israel escalates

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Same thing that I said to Satinavian, an evacuation corridor is an ultimatum to get out or die. It is absolutely the same thing as forced removal because even as you admit to Satinavian, there was forced removal. They stopped at the Egyptian border only because there was no evacuation corridor and even then they were bombing the refugee camp. No, the fig leaf of calling it an evacuation corridor is only meaningful to dullards.
This doesn't address what I said. I've not disputed that forced removal happened, and happened en masse. I've repeated that several times now.

How does this constitute the removal of the entire population? Do you just consider the difference in scope between 160k and 2.2m to be immaterial? Where's the transfer of government to the US?
 

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This doesn't address what I said. I've not disputed that forced removal happened, and happened en masse. I've repeated that several times now.

How does this constitute the removal of the entire population? Do you just consider the difference in scope between 160k and 2.2m to be immaterial? Where's the transfer of government to the US?
Because those remaining are

BOMBED AND KILLED EN MASSE AS THEY HAVE BEEN FOR 15 MONTHS WITH THE DIRECT KILLING BEING DONE BY THE NATION YOU WANT TO SET UP A HUMANITARIAN CORRIDOR

Please learn to be a serious person.
 
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Because those remaining are

BOMBED AND KILLED EN MASSE AS THEY HAVE BEEN FOR 15 MONTHS WITH THE DIRECT KILLING BEING DONE BY THE NATION YOU WANT TO SET UP A HUMANITARIAN CORRIDOR

Please learn to be a serious person.
The performative outrage all-caps doesn't address it either. This is just reiteration of how obscene the situation is, which is not in dispute.

Are you telling me you do consider the difference between 160k and 2.2m to be immaterial? The bombing makes that difference in scope immaterial somehow?
 

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The performative outrage all-caps doesn't address it either. This is just reiteration of how obscene the situation is, which is not in dispute.

Are you telling me you do consider the difference between 160k and 2.2m to be immaterial? The bombing makes that difference in scope immaterial somehow?
What difference? What I'm watching here is apologia for ethnic cleansing. Downplaying an attempt to forcibly evict people from their land to take it. I'm watching someone try to steer a conversation away from talking about ethnic cleansing. Because it wasn't 160k people threatened, it was the whole of the Gaza strip. The Israeli media and leadership spent the last 15 months telling anyone who'd listen that they're going to steal all the land. They've already been selling parcels of land in the strip. And here you are, running interference. A humanitarian corridor would be ethnic cleansing and you're all here for it because it has that lovely little name and was being perpetrated by Biden/Harris. No, learn to have morals.
 
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What difference? What I'm watching here is apologia for ethnic cleansing. Downplaying an attempt to forcibly evict people from their land to take it. I'm watching someone try to steer a conversation away from talking about ethnic cleansing.
This is an outright, tiresome little lie. Absolutely nothing I've written here is downplaying what happened or offering apologia for it. Nothing. You're just flinging that accusation to try to end any discussion about escalation.

Because it wasn't 160k people threatened, it was the whole of the Gaza strip. The Israeli media and leadership spent the last 15 months telling anyone who'd listen that they're going to steal all the land. They've already been selling parcels of land in the strip. And here you are, running interference.
90+% of the Gaza strip was subjected to bombing, and 1.9m people were displaced. But I didn't say just 160k people were threatened or affected in some way. Stop rewriting what I'm saying to make it more convenient to respond to.

160k was the approximate drop in population of the strip over the course of the year. Some 60k died, and the majority of the rest were likely internationally displaced. That's the 160k.

There is something of a difference between 160k population drop and 2.2m population removed. I fear the removal of the remaining 2.05million from Gaza. And you're going to sit there and tell me that's not a difference at all, and that fearing the removal of 2m more people is somehow "apologia" for the earlier removal of 160k? Get the fuck off it.
 
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This is an outright, tiresome little lie. Absolutely nothing I've written here is downplaying what happened or offering apologia for it. Nothing. You're just flinging that accusation to try to end any discussion about escalation.



90+% of the Gaza strip was subjected to bombing, and 1.9m people were displaced. But I didn't say just 160k people were threatened or affected in some way. Stop rewriting what I'm saying to make it more convenient to respond to.

160k was the approximate drop in population of the strip over the course of the year. Some 60k died, and the majority of the rest were likely internationally displaced. That's the 160k.

There is something of a difference between 160k population drop and 2.2m population removed. I fear the removal of the remaining 2.05million from Gaza. And you're going to sit there and tell me that's not a difference at all, and that fearing the removal of 2m more people is somehow "apologia" for the earlier removal of 160k? Get the fuck off it.
Yes, it's apologia. "Biden/Harris only killed or displaced 160k! If they opened a humanitarian corridor that's all they would have done!" The hell is wrong with you? The point of a humanitarian corridor would be to let all of them leave, and Israel and the US would be right behind them shoving them out. All 2.2m, that is literally the point. Quit being an apologist for ethnic cleansing, they were all being threatened. You're not worried about the people of Gaza, you're worried about how it looks. Biden/Harris's method of removing the Palestinians would let you keep going to brunch. Stop pretending like you actually care, it's laughable.
 
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This is an outright, tiresome little lie. Absolutely nothing I've written here is downplaying what happened or offering apologia for it. Nothing. You're just flinging that accusation to try to end any discussion about escalation.



90+% of the Gaza strip was subjected to bombing, and 1.9m people were displaced. But I didn't say just 160k people were threatened or affected in some way. Stop rewriting what I'm saying to make it more convenient to respond to.

160k was the approximate drop in population of the strip over the course of the year. Some 60k died, and the majority of the rest were likely internationally displaced. That's the 160k.

There is something of a difference between 160k population drop and 2.2m population removed. I fear the removal of the remaining 2.05million from Gaza. And you're going to sit there and tell me that's not a difference at all, and that fearing the removal of 2m more people is somehow "apologia" for the earlier removal of 160k? Get the fuck off it.
And any of this is justification for favoring the people who facilitated the earlier stages of this wave of mass murder and ethnic cleansing because..?

The plan was and remains to displace/murder them all, or make as much progress toward that as possible. That hasn't changed. That has been the plan since 1947 or earlier. Democrats weren't stopping it or slowing it down; they were helping it along. They still are. There is a nominal ceasefire after a truly staggering amount of destruction, so now the discourse is turning to more long term ideas; endgames. "We destroyed everything, they should all leave" is both a massive crime against humanity as well as something that was made plausible by the destruction carried out with bombs sent by the United States that was at the time the color blue. There is nothing inconvenient about what you're saying, it's just weird and irrelevant and makes you seem like a mark.
 

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Yes, it's apologia. "Biden/Harris only killed or displaced 160k! If they opened a humanitarian corridor that's all they would have done!" The hell is wrong with you?
Still making shit up and ascribing it to me, then. I'm not offering speculation on 'counterfactuals' at all, though you seem intent to do so.

The point of a humanitarian corridor would be to let all of them leave, and Israel and the US would be right behind them shoving them out. All 2.2m, that is literally the point.
You believe the point of those evacuation corridors was to remove the entire population. After over a year, 94% of the population remained inside Gaza, and hundreds of thousands are returning after internal displacement. This isn't credible speculation.

Biden/Harris's method of removing the Palestinians would let you keep going to brunch.
What a bizarre thing to type.

And any of this is justification for favoring the people who facilitated the earlier stages of this wave of mass murder and ethnic cleansing because..?
? It's not.
 

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You believe the point of those evacuation corridors was to remove the entire population. After over a year, 94% of the population remained inside Gaza, and hundreds of thousands are returning after internal displacement. This isn't credible speculation.
YES. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT ISRAEL IS TRYING TO DO AND BIDEN WAS RIGHT BEHIND THEM IN DOING IT. THAT'S WHY THEY'RE TRYING TO DO IT NOW WITH TRUMP. THIS WAS THE PLAN. THIS WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN.
 
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YES. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT ISRAEL IS TRYING TO DO AND BIDEN WAS RIGHT BEHIND THEM IN DOING IT. THAT'S WHY THEY'RE TRYING TO DO IT NOW WITH TRUMP. THIS WAS THE PLAN. THIS WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN.
So to get the entire population to leave, America created... one or two small international evac routes that almost all of Gaza didn't/couldn't use?

Thank goodness their approach was so incredibly useless, eh? If they were aiming for 100%, 2.2million, they dramatically underperformed, those routes.
 

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So to get the entire population to leave, America created... one or two small international evac routes that almost all of Gaza didn't/couldn't use?

Thank goodness their approach was so incredibly useless, eh? If they were aiming for 100%, 2.2million, they dramatically underperformed, those routes.
America tried to create evac routes, but since Jordan and Egypt are smarter than you, they denied Biden's request. Which is good since over 1.9 million Gazans were shoved out of their homes and bombed. ~1.5 million were in Rafah. Imagine if 3/4 of Gazans had been expelled?
 

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"Elect Kamala Harris and remand her and Biden to the Hague" seems a trifle counterintuitive.
Not really.

Remember how most of the discussion before the election revolved about whether one should go for the "lesser evil" to prevent the "greater evil" or not?
I don't remember anyone ever question that Biden/Kamala indeed qualified as "evil" in this instance and should only be considered because of the Republicans and Trump. Silvanus in particular never agreed with the US politics in Israel.


Of course we now do have that greater evil and look, it is, as predicted, greater.
 
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"Elect Kamala Harris and remand her and Biden to the Hague" seems a trifle counterintuitive.
Whereas it's so much more likely that they'll see justice at the Hague now.

America tried to create evac routes, but since Jordan and Egypt are smarter than you, they denied Biden's request.
What we know of the proposal was that it involved one small corridor to Egypt, with a pretty low daily cap-- and then they dropped negotiating efforts for it after a month or two. If they planned to remove 2.2million people that way, they woefully underplanned, didn't they?

Imagine if 3/4 of Gazans had been expelled?
Yes, that's the scenario I'm afraid of, whereas you seem to be telling me it wouldn't be much of a difference.
 
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Would love to hear what Trump thinks behind closed doors. What will he do with all these people once whoever’s left is expelled? Where will they go? What are the chances he’ll do a 180 and grant asylum to all these people just because der fuhr, er, “Bibi” tells him to. It’s America’s mess, and the whole bloody world knows it. How willing will they all be to take anyone in? Will that be done by force too?

Geez, I’m almost starting to get what Mel said when he was drunk.
 
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It’s America’s mess, and the whole bloody world knows it.
That it is-- but let's not forget the role Britain played: making contradictory promises behind closed doors for short-term gain; taking over under authority granted by a distant, defunct organisation; then reneging on their deals and fucking off.
 

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Whereas it's so much more likely that they'll see justice at the Hague now.



What we know of the proposal was that it involved one small corridor to Egypt, with a pretty low daily cap-- and then they dropped negotiating efforts for it after a month or two. If they planned to remove 2.2million people that way, they woefully underplanned, didn't they?



Yes, that's the scenario I'm afraid of, whereas you seem to be telling me it wouldn't be much of a difference.
Thank goodness their approach was so incredibly useless, eh? If they were aiming for 100%, 2.2million, they dramatically underperformed, those routes.
A reminder that opening evac corridors, even without a solid plan for return, is very very very obviously not the same thing. And that's all that was provided before.
With Biden, his actions fit the mold of US Presidents for decades: mostly heaps of arms sales, to appease Israel's government (and lobbyists), and to make money.
I'm sad we share the same air. I don't know what I can tell you at this point. Most if not all the population of Gaza was against the wall to Egypt with guns and bombs provided by the US in the single largest military action against the Palestinians in decades, and Biden tried to have them forcibly expelled. Those treaty talks were in March iirc, the ceasefire wasn't signed until January. At ~5000 people a day every day they could have drained 1.5 million people.

But that's normal. That's expected. But now Trump is threatening to bomb and kill the Palestinians, push them against the wall to Egypt, and have them expelled. So it's an escalation. This could play out exactly the same as when Biden did it, and it'll be awful. But people like you will only be against it because a conservative is doing it. You'll accurately articulate how awful it is... now. When just months ago you would have called it normal. It wouldn't be so bad, except you self-righteously stomp in and tell people who have been trying to say how this has been the escalation for over a year that they're wrong. A champion gaslighter performing ethnic cleansing apologia.

Riddle me this hypocrite, why joke about the rate of ethnic cleansing if you cared? Why are 160k people dead or gone amusing to you? Why would an unknown but certainly much higher number be "normal"?