Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s backers view his corruption trial as a witch hunt — but his detractors argue it is the system finally catching up to a ruthless political operative who is prepared to do anything to hold on to power.

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      Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making the society ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal such as deportation or population transfer, it also includes indirect methods aimed at forced migration by coercing the victim group to flee and preventing its return, such as murder, rape, and property destruction.[1][2][3][4][5] Both the definition and charge of ethnic cleansing is often disputed, with some researchers including and others excluding coercive assimilation or mass killings as a means of depopulating an area of a particular group,[6][7] or calling it a euphemism for genocide or cultural genocide.[8][9]

      I’m talking about every aspect of ethnic cleansing used by Zionism since the early 1900’s, that includes genocide. The books by Ilan Pappe, Nur Masalha, Rashid Khalidi, and even Sara M. Roy

      You’re thinking of genocide denial, such as when people say Israel ‘may have committed war crimes’ if even acknowledging it at all instead of calling each and every victim ‘Hamas’ as if that’s some ultimate justification

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          Stop being pedantic. I’m talking about every aspect of the settler colonialist project, from economic to eradication.

          Acting like Ilan Pappe was whitewashing history in his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, when he details the Nakba, is fucking ridiculous.

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            I haven’t read it, know nothing about the author or their intent. Maybe they used a term they expected to get past censors; maybe they’re a shitlib at heart, maybe the publisher changed it and they were mad as fuck. Plenty of possibilities.

            My statement, I believe; stands.