Israelites' "Palestinian Cleansing" Option
Well
Well Today I'm sittin around Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool
And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school and listening to the loop cause I was at Uni when the show was on yesterday.
Anyways Juan Hernandez Cole is on and he's prattling on in the way he does and then something caught my ear: he says that for a chunk of Israelites consider cleansing contested lands of Palestinians to other parts of the Arab world a viable option
Now, I hate to do this (actually that's a lie, I love it), but I have to compare this to something that's ironic given the actors involved....National Socialism
Now, like I said, I go to University...one of my two majors is history (the other is Poli Sci), and my preference for study is Nazism and military history in regards to it. If anyone in my area of study heard this Israelite idea the first thing that should pop into their head is 'Lebensraum' and 'Germanization'.
The idea of Lebensraum was that the German people had a right to larger areas of living spaces in order to support their peoples. The lands in this Greater Germany would be purged of all non-Germans living on it. The original plan was basically deportation (in one plan all the Jews would be moved to Madagascar, lol wut?) to all other areas. The Germans would then get that land, and it was rightfully theirs because history had destined it to be theirs due to some screwy stuff about Teutonic Knights and WW1. The Holocaust was the result of these theories and the implementation because the Nazis found that they simply couldn't practically deport all the people they'd planned to, so the only way to make the Lebensraum a truly German state was to slaughter everybody non-German.
Now, most of the time comparisons to Nazis are entirely hysterical and made by people who are mental, but the connection between the idea of Lebensraum and this Palestinian Cleansing thing is concerning. I doubt the Israelites would resort to a holocaust, but the mere logistics of a Palestinian deportation,or 'cleansing' would surely transgress upon many humanitarian standards and such
I still like Israel better though
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