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Dec 3Edited

No, Etienne. The push to suggest Israel is guilty of ethnic cleansing while not mentioning the rest of the world's issues is just another form of antisemitism. Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany is absurd. Germany essentially outlawed sectors of their population, Jews most notably, and waged war against an amalgam of craftsmen and shopkeepers who had no way to resist. They were herded off to death camps and systematically slaughtered by the most brutally efficient murder machine that has ever existed. Israel is responding to the constant attacks since 2023 with security measure that require movement of people for their own safety. Their lack of food is on the extant members of HAMAS, not deliberate attempts to starve them.

I read the hammering against Israel here, yet nothing about how Arab militias are raping, murdering and forcefully relocating non-Arabs in West Darfur. Or the continued war crimes in Myanmar, or as Human Watch notes: "For more than a year and a half, a largely invisible campaign of ethnic cleansing has played out in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray. Older people, women, and children have been loaded onto trucks and forced out of their villages and hometowns. Men have been herded into overcrowded detention sites, where many have died of disease, starvation, or torture. In total, several hundred thousand Tigrayans have been forcibly uprooted because of their ethnicity."

Meanwhile, in Bangladesh, "a repressive government with no opposition runs the Rapid Action Battalion, which is under sanctions by the United States government, but security forces remain implicated in torture, killings, and enforced disappearances. The government arrested journalists and critics, and stifled civil society."

In Syria, In Idlib, despite a recent ceasefire, the Syrian-Russian military alliance still poses a threat to over 3 million civilians trapped there, while the dominant Islamist armed group, Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham, restricts their freedoms. In Turkish-occupied territories, Turkey and local factions are abusing civilians’ rights with impunity.

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Out of curiosity, have you had training with the ADL or other zionist organizations? Are you part of any coordinated effort to help Israel's image by publishing comments? Yes... Other countries are committing atrocities as well but it doesn't excuse what Israel is doing... You are defending genocide... The Israeli "government" is running the same unethcially manipulative techniques on their population... We are for a Zero State solution in Israel!

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I'm curious... do you genuinely trust the New York Times???? The New York Times???? The New York Times????

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In China, the government imposes heavy-handed control in Xinjiang and Tibet. The cultural persecution and arbitrary detention of a million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang since 2017 have been labeled crimes against humanity.

The list goes on and it is long. Perhaps it is easier to just go along with the recent push to once again blame Jews for anything that comes to mind, and single out the only Jewish nation as criminals. And yes, Israel is a Jewish nation. But one apparently not plagued with censorship. Malcontents are free to be received by the Jew haters of the world to take their reports as gospel, aren't they?

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