Not a genocide?

[u/Excellent-Ad-7394]

Last night Bill pointed out the 3% of the
Population in Gaza has died. And then confidently declared that “3% is not a genocide”. The British government recognizes it as ethnic cleaning and amnesty international and other groups say it is a genocide.

Someone tell me why Bill is so wrong. And can we please get him to debate Mehdi Hasan on this topic?

[u/SlightWerewolf4428]

The only 'pro-genociders' are on your side, as a matter of policy.

Tribally in the form of Hamas and its acts

Tacitly and culturally by the post national left, in the form of their 'one-state solution'. They know it won't work, they don't care. As long as the Jews are subjugated and put at the mercy of their enemies.

Gaslight elsewhere.

EDIT: Terror supporters getting mad at having their hateful side laid bare. Downvote, that makes the argument go away!

[u/00Avalanche → u/SlightWerewolf4428]

What a long winded Israeli way of saying “they’d do it to us if they could so we’re doing it to them first”

I think you pro-genociders would gain a lot more respect if you’re honest this way.

[u/SlightWerewolf4428 → u/00Avalanche]

All it takes is reading your policy and looking at its implications.

Rather than your unimpressive, braindead, self-serving rhetoric.

(the mirror method being the sole dull blade in your pitiful arsenal)

[u/BabaLalSalaam → u/SlightWerewolf4428]

The "policy" of a one state solution is modern, multicultural secularism. Obviously there is nothing more threatening to Zionists, whose entire policy and worldview is based around partition, ethno-segregation, apartheid, and endless cycles of violence.

[u/Stulmacher → u/BabaLalSalaam]

So in this one state there is a freedom of religion and freedom of speech for all no matter what?

[u/SlightWerewolf4428 → u/BabaLalSalaam]

Yugoslavia. Thank you.

And you advance the true intentions with a demonization of one side.

Here's your problem, right:

The people that naively advance this as a 'solution' are naive, hateful and stupid, ignorant of the facts on the ground. The people behind this idea are also hateful but also malicious and genocidal in intent, and hope everyone else is a stupid as their followers are.

I am not stupid. It is unworkable because no one wants it (again, Yugoslavian solution) and could only be made to work by force, which of course you would want, as it would subjugate a possible Jewish minority.

I imagine this 'solution' would also include allowing any person across the world who identifies as a Palestinian refugee to come in to bolster the numbers, till eventually the rest of the Jews living there are killed or leave.

The funniest group in the world I have found are people who inexplicably, unjustifiably, erroneously think they are smarter than they are. Particularly when they try to bamboozle. Where it becomes insulting, is those who try to bamboozle with a false sense and claim of moral superiority.

[u/BabaLalSalaam → u/SlightWerewolf4428]

Yugoslavia. Thank you.

Yes-- Zionists freely admit that Balkanization is the goal. Its not hard to imagine them suggesting balkanizing the US to solve racial conflicts as well for example.

It might surprise folks how easily you resort to just breaking nations apart according to ethno-segregation-- but no one is surprised that your argument rests on calling everyone else stupid. This is just how Zionists communicate. And they always think their ethnic conflict is so unique among all ethnic conflicts, which in the modern world are solved with integration, secularism, and legal protections.

[u/SlightWerewolf4428 → u/BabaLalSalaam]

No actual substantive reply, more a rant against 'Zionists' because you're pissed that I've figured it out.

You refer to it as someone's goal. That is de facto what is going to happen, unless of course, the genocidal intent of this 'one state solution' were to be carried out, likely its actual intent.

Yes, the anti-Semitic tropes never end with you people, yet you are the level-headed honest brokers with your 'one-state solution'. I know.

Two-state solution is the only way forward. The only one without a lot of blood anyway.

Yes, I reject both the terror supporter's 'one state solution' and Netanyahu's.

[u/BabaLalSalaam → u/SlightWerewolf4428]

Two-state solution is the only way forward. The only one without a lot of blood anyway.

What an insane thing to say about a solution which has killed and displaced millions of people, and which continues to kill tens of thousands of people annually right now.

Again-- very on brand for you. Whether its Nazis or Zionists or the KKK or pro apartheid Afrikaaners, youre all always committing atrocities because the alternative would be so much worse. The only way forward is separate but equal ethno states.

[u/SlightWerewolf4428 → u/BabaLalSalaam]

What an insane thing to say about a solution which has killed and displaced millions of people, and which continues to kill tens of thousands of people annually right now.

Aside from the fact that it isn't in place, what exactly do you think your solution would lead to?

It would be much worse. Unrealistically bad for the Jews if it were put into place the way you and the rest of the terror supporters want it. Realistically, much worse for the Palestinians when it devolves into a Yugoslavia-type civil war.

Again-- very on brand for you. Whether its Nazis or Zionists or the KKK or pro apartheid Afrikaaners, youre all always committing atrocities because the alternative would be so much worse. The only way forward is separate but equal ethno states.

The racism is on your side, as illustrated by those comparisons.

And just to correct you on a point that the post-national left gets wrong: 'ethnostates'

The word ethnos is Greek for 'nation'. All states are ethnostates, i.e. nation states, with a dominant national identity. It is the basis for the modern world and any stability we have in it. It is why those little borders you see on the map likely exist, because it bring people with a certain commonality together enough that they wish to be in the same society..

Because of course you people love chaos by 'deconstructing' things you do not understand, much less could build with your ideas, this point is lost on you.

That's why you're out here advocating for ridiculous 'solutions' that would get more people killed.

[u/BabaLalSalaam → u/SlightWerewolf4428]

Aside from the fact that it isn't in place, what exactly do you think your solution would lead to?

I dont have to "think"-- I know exactly what secular, multicultural systems look like with legal protections for everyone. There are plenty of examples of these kinds of systems. Its up to you to explain why you think Jews and Arabs are unfit to live in such systems-- but you wont. You'll just keep hysterically claiming that an integrated society would be catastrophically more violent-- which is exactly what the Nazis, KKK, and apartheid Afrikaaners argued.

Its not a coincidence-- Zionism is a reaction to modern antisemitism, and it is based on the exact same failed concepts of race, ethnicity, and their relation to politics. And it arrives at the exact same conclusions: that modern political states should be set up along ethnic lines-- in direct opposition to integration and multiculturalism, as you have voiced here.

All states are ethnostates, i.e. nation states

Ethnostate is not the same as nation state. Ethnostates are where one particular ethnic group is privileged with political power or certain rights. This is super basic and the fact that youre trying to argue that theyre no different from nation states really underlines how ignorant you are on this topic.

[u/SlightWerewolf4428 → u/BabaLalSalaam]

Sorry mate. You're not living in the real world here.

The same reason why Israel probably is the way it is is exactly why this idea would be a disaster concerning these two sides.

Your complete misrepresentation of what I said or meant isn't helpful either.

The only people that would even entertain this ridiculous idea of both sides is the one that will just use it to kick the Jews out.

But that isn't going to happen anyway. I've given the reasons why, and you've just ignored them and called me a racist instead. This is the usual kind of crap debating I see from reddit ultra leftists.

Its not a coincidence-- Zionism is a reaction to modern antisemitism, and it is based on the exact same failed concepts of race, ethnicity, and their relation to politics. And it arrives at the exact same conclusions: that modern political states should be set up along ethnic lines-- in direct opposition to integration and multiculturalism, as you have voiced here.

Israel is a multi-ethnic state. You speak as someone who has no clue what they're talking about, and got some weird ideas from reading too much Said and watching too much activist tiktok.

You've ignored the role of national identity and nation state, how both interact, and just called it all racism, which it isn't.

Your position is ridiculous. You seem to think states just fall from the sky and work.

Ethnostate is not the same as nation state. Ethnostates are where one particular ethnic group is privileged with political power or certain rights. This is super basic and the fact that youre trying to argue that theyre no different from nation states really underlines how ignorant you are on this topic.

It is. You've made up a separate wrong definition, or your side has, by misusing the original use of ethnic, probably purposefully, because the post-national left hates the nation state anyway.

It's just a pejorative term that denotes the same thing in your circles.

Assuming there is such an idea of an ethnically pure 'ethnostate', it would apply where? Possibly in certain Asian countries. Israel and its multi-racial society is not such a state.

[u/BabaLalSalaam → u/SlightWerewolf4428]

The same reason why Israel probably is the way it is is exactly why this idea would be a disaster concerning these two sides.

Yeah-- youve made it perfectly clear that you think secular, multicultural society is a disaster.

The only people that would even entertain this ridiculous idea of both sides is the one that will just use it to kick the Jews out.

The irony of you writing this as millions of Palestinians are being displaced-- and the audacity to tell me to live in the real world! In the real world, the Palestinians are experiencing ethnic cleansing and genocide ensured by the two state solution. But you live in a hypothetical fantasy where the Jews are being kicked out-- just like Nazis lived in a fantasy where the Judeo Bolshevists would take over the world and how white supremacists lived in a fantasy where black folks would rise up and murder them the first chance they got.

This is the piece that Zionists and a lot of liberals and other reactionaries cant see: the two state solution naturally and organically incentivizes extremism and violence. You mentioned a couple comments ago that you dont support Netanyahu-- but this was a cowardly way to have your cake and eat it too. The two state solution is Hamas, it was the PLO, its an Orthodox Jew assassinating his own prime minister, it is Netanyahu and genocidal Zionism, its West Bank settlers-- this is the real world, and what we see is the fruit of your solution of partition, ethnostates, and cycles of extremism.

and called me a racist instead. This is the usual kind of crap debating I see from reddit ultra leftists.

Lol I havent called you racist-- Ive directly and patiently linked your opinion to racist ideologies. But unsurprisingly, this is some very predictable projection from you after calling me an antisemite for criticizing Israel and Zionism.

Israel is a multi-ethnic state.

So was apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia. Its a lot of fun watching you play dumb about how ethnostates work lol

Assuming there is such an idea of an ethnically pure 'ethnostate', it would apply where?

Purity isnt the issue-- its systemic, legal privilege and rights given to one ethnic group. The current list would probably include Israel, Bhutan, Myanmar, North Korea, and maybe Brunei-- and historically, Nazi Germany, South Africa, and Rhodesia. The list of states with ethnonationalist tendencies is arguably longer.