cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/5420798
Paywall: https://archive.is/Lmry2
Israeli officials have signaled they do not intend to relinquish this territory. These areas, where the military has deployed, are considered “no-go zones” and Palestinians risk being shot if they approach.
So is this like … concentrating… the people into a smaller area, like uh … camp?
This is closer to just standard imperialism, which Hitler also did. Evil? Yes, but a different kind of evil.
Also I think Israel literally has a concentration camp, so if you want to make that comparison, it’s right there.
Imperialism is horribly evil and it deserves to be called out by name. A part of the imperialist process is genocide, which is what we’re seeing here.
Gaza has been categorized as the world’s largest concentration camp by holocaust experts already. So yes, they do have a concentration camp, it’s called the Gaza Strip.
This is more like American style genocidal manifest destiny or Nazi lebensraum.
The closest examples I can think of in recent history is the Vietnam war or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But yeah, American style imperialism is what I equate this to.
Netanyahu might as well be Dick Cheney.
Dick Cheney and Andrew Jackson
Imperialism never had genocide as a main part of the process…
Read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism
Maybe colonialism is the word I’m thinking of?
The one that involves forcibly taking land and mass murder, like what the settlers of America did to the Native American population.
Settler-colonialism
It basically already was, they’re just making it smaller.
Hitler would be proud.
Cynical me can see Netanyahoo say “because of all the dead Palestinians, the area per person has actually gone up for the survivors.”