'100-200,000, not two million': Israel's finance minister envisions depopulated Gaza

Encouraging Jews to leave "voluntarily" was Hitler's first step, too. Then when most people don't want to leave their homes, you justify your escalation by saying you gave them a chance.
- Yeah and back then it was Zionists who collaborated with him to populate Palestine with 60,000 German Jews.
- It's annoying making the comparison derails the conversation so much. Yeah, sure, one of the ethnicities involved happens to be repeating and that sucks, but that's the one genocide people know stuff about.
  Edit: Lol, didn't expect this to get downvoted. Why?
  
  I think the downvotes are from people with poor reading comprehension. Like the guy who thought you were laughing about genocide.
  
  Genocide is funny to you?

Saying the quiet part out loud again. Forced relocation through either terror or expatriation is Ethnic Cleansing. Ethnic Cleansing may fall under the Genocide Convention.
WTF?
- The primary genocide requirement is intent. Instead of throwing “maybes” around, you should spend a minute or two to read the convention in full instead of polluting the discourse.
  Especially now that the intent is clearly stated by a government official.
- We are there.
  I will vote for Joe Biden if he publicly condemns Israel. From his lips. In an address to the nation.
  I will not if he doesn't.
  Simple as that.
  
  It's a two party system. You vote Biden or get Trump. Trump has less problem with ethnic cleansing. If fact Trump is the kind that might try it in the US.
  
  Idiotic reason to vote for Trump who is far worse toward Palestine.
  
  I don't think any presidential candidate would do that, even if that's how they really felt. It'd be political suicide.
  
  You think having a Republican president is going to improve the situation?
  
  I don't believe you would at all tbh.
  Just another concern troll pretend you give a fuck.

"We won't do genocide, but what about 90% genocide?"
- 95% tops!
  
  Is it really genocide if there's at least a few left?

So he wants to kill 90% of the populace in a geographical region.
How does anyone deny this is genocide?
- I think their goal is to displace 90% into Egypt and kill the rest. Still genocide.
- Where was it stated that the goal was to kill 90% of the population?
  
  It is not possible to move 1.8 million people out of a region like Gaza without mass death. This is not some secret information that Israel doesn't know. The state of Israel has demonstrated at every possible opportunity that at best it does not care and at worst that's the goal.

Okay hear me out, what if, after you make sure each person isn’t hamas, you tattoo their arm, and…
- Yes and maybe make it trackable, like a number or a barcode, just to make sure
  
  I believe IBM could help with this.
- Maybe it could be a yellow-colored religious symbol, worn as a mandatory patch by Palestinians on a highly visible place on their clothes.

Yet again,
But remember, not a genocide.

What the fuck. Fucking sickos.

The US is really fucked up on this. I mean Israel is a tactical ally, but how do you turn a blind eye to genocide?
- If by turn a blind eye you mean supply vast majority of the weapons used to commit the genocide then sure.
- The US hasn't turned a blind eye to it. The US has been exerting pressure for lessened combat operations since the getgo.
  Foreign policy is not about morality, it is about power.
  There are 3 main powers in that region. Saudi Arabia, Iran and Israel. Right now the US has a lot of influence over both (power). If the US were to just drop Israel, then all of a sudden the US has no more power in the region.
  The Israelis do not need us for weapons. Not only do they have their own military industrial complex, there are other 1st world powers who would happily sell arms to Israel for a chance to become the new most powerful influence in the region due to having Iran and Israel under their thumbs.
  I swear, Americans are fucking stupid when it comes to how anything works and they have zero desire to learn. It's no wonder that the US ends up with people like trump.
  
  If you continue to provide funding and weapons to an ongoing genocide, you are 100% complicit. What you are suggesting is that the ends justify the means.

Goebbels really has some crazy ideas there

It looks like Zionists were taking notes during the Holocaust
“What we do not understand is that while there were protests against Germany’s defensive action in this field, there was, on the other hand, no willingness to absorb the excess Jewish population emigrating from Germany.”
• Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of propaganda.

I wonder if he literally meant 100, not 100,000.

Well, it's always nice when Israeli ministers by their own public words provide evidence of culpability for the case against Israel that just started in the International Court of Justice.

All of them there just to do menial labor for Israelis that move in and elsewhere. Just enough for housekeepers and their families.

ITT: genocidal crackers trying and failing to curry favor for their genocidal archsettler by invoking their personal boogeyman.

It's time to dismantle the Israeli state.

I don't know the context, but I doubt he was expressing a fear of his, somehow. I just wanted to say he's got a very punchable face in that picture.

- Disclaimer: I’m Israeli. I know Israel is not handling this war remotely well, but it’s also not guilty of the extreme accusations the internet blames it for.
  It is guilty of genocide, and this is not an internet accusation.
  this is not a policy that Israel has.
  Yes, it does. It has been stated numerous time, the plan is another Nakba.
- To be honest I would argue the sentiment that this approach isn't what most Israeli civilians envisioned for some years now, but seeing as how all actions taken by both IDF and Israeli government, I seriously doubt this guy is alone in his fascist thoughts when he bursts out these inhumane sentiments.
  I would advise against defending these genocidal state apparatus, nor mixing the views of civilian population of Israel with these bloodthirsty colonialist monsters.
  Israeli people are innocent in this conflict, as are Palestinian people. However, Palestinian people are too poor and oppressed from all sides to make a conscious decision to root out Hamas, so the part of responsibility that falls on them is hard to accomplish. Israeli people, on the other hand, still have enough faculties, although at the brink of destruction by the fear-mongering campaign of Bibi the Genocider, to carry out their part of the responsibility in forming peaceful living by dismantling their current terrorist and fascist government (at the elections at worst).
  What I advise is don't try push the blame under a rug by making scapegoats out of a few people while letting the rest ruin the last semblance of your democracy.
- Yeah, he should have kept a lid on it like everyone else at the Wannsee Conference.
- I'd honestly love to know more about what it's like to be an Israeli right now. I'm adamantly pro cease-fire and have always been pro "let people keep their homes" and anti-apartheid, but never anti-Israeli citizen or Palestinian citizen to be fair. In the US we talk a lot about our government being colonizers and how the founding fathers shouldn't be praised and we try to find ways to honor stolen land, albeit, it feels performative since I certainly can't just give up my home if someone's ancestor came back and asked for it. Anyways not to try to point too many fingers, but hopefully just offer a glimpse of my own moral dilemmas that feel impossible, I'm just wondering what the perspective is for you all? Is the segregation discussed? Is the foundation of Israel controversial among Israelis at all?
- Mods here taking a Reddit approach to turning the conversation into shit. It's wild to see develop so rapidly, what took years over there.
- Thanks. This kind of reality check is very necessary.