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To: Bilow who wrote (3496)11/27/2002 6:41:06 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 6901
 
Ethnic cleansing" does not imply (necessarily) murder, though that is a common misconception. Instead, it means forcing people to move out of land. ("Genocide" is the word for killing people.) The simple fact is that the Palestinians live on less land now than they lived on 20 years ago. The land that they no longer live on, is covered by Israeli settlements. That is, the land that the settlers live on was ethnically cleansed by the Israelis. Here are some references from the Jerusalem Post:

Carl, this is a ridiculous distortion, not in the least backed up by the two op-ed(!) pieces you cite from the Jerusalem Post, one of which is on the ICC and the other on Israel's relationship with the UN.

The pattern of Israeli settlement has not been to "clear off" Palestinian villages (can you name even one of these "cleared off" villages? Don't you think the PA would mention their names if there were some?), but to build new settlements on government-owned land in between existing villages.

I've never been a big fan of the settlement policy but flinging terms like "ethnic cleansing" around when they absolutely don't fit (during the Olso years alone 500,000 Palestinians moved into the West bank) does not aid rational discussion.

Since you avoided telling frank any numbers, here are two:

Number of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza in 1967: 1 million
Number of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza today: over 3 million

Some "ethnic cleansing".
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