2025 Daily - 09/27/2025 - Ethnic Cleansing - NOT - but....

 To be clear .... I am NOT a fan of ethnic cleansing.PERIOD....

Genocide and ethnic cleansing are different. While ethnic cleansing may have some appearences to genocide they are not the same... imho. One, genocide is the killing of all who are part of some group. Ethnic cleansing is the clearing out of some group from some area. When ethnic cleansing is done the subjected group has some place to go. When genocide is committed the end is the end for the people in that group.

Jews have experienced genocide. While it may be possible to find some evidence that first Germany wanted to cleanse itself of all Jews.. it later choose to kill all Jews. AND when "cleansing" may have been in mind the world beyond Germany was filled with lots of antisemitism so there was no really safe welcoming place for Jews. 

Palestinians have been subjected to pressures to "clear out" since the late 1940's. Who applied the pressure is something to discuss and understand when it happened in the 1940's however in the 21st century, since 2005 when Israel cleared out of Gaza, the people living in Gaza had choices as to how to live. Those choices can be discussed, too, and when I say discussed I mean debated as there are competing stories and realities. Today, in 2025 and post Oct. 7, 2023, things are different and are being handled differently. IF the people living in Gaza when the current war is over will not commit to peace then either ethnic cleansing or severe police state control are options. The option of genocide is NOT real and it is not happening now and must not happen.  All those killed are a sad and terrible and horrible consequence of a war that could be mutaully ended or could be ended by one side immediately. Israel could end the war BUT the consequence would be Israel would have to fight another day sometime in the future. Hamas could end the war by laying downs their weapons and giving up their demands to remove, ethnically clearnse, kill... all Israelis and Jews AND THEN the people of Gaza can commit to peace and also to prosperity!

Hamas and its sympathizers must go and be replaced by people and powers who see peace and humanity and tolerance and acceptance as real and right. On the Israeli side it may also mean a group of people and powers with the same vision be in place, too.