"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" is not a call for genocide.

For someone to think it is a call to genocide, they have to make some heavy assumptions.... making an ass out of you and me.

They have to assume that in order for the entire region to become a free Palestine, a genocide needs to occur. But it doesn't. A genocide requires one of five acts: killing, serious bodily harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. At least one of those needs to occur with the intent of to destroy a national/ethnical/racial or religious group. The phrase does not specify how the area becomes Palestine. Maybe Palestine fights a war of independence, capturing all of that territory, assimilating it's people. Russia did not commit genocide when it annexed Crimea.

One also has to neglect it's power as a negotiating position. Likud wants all the land from the Sea to the Jordan river to be under the control of Israel (see their 1973 charter, this is long established fact). Is that a call to genocide? If Israel wants the whole place with no Palestine, then Palestine can (as a negotiation starting point) call for control of the whole place with no Israel. Why should they voluntarily weaken their negotiating position when offered nothing in return?

So the moral thing to do is to chant "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" and wave those flags and give the finger to any assholes who lie about who you are and what you believe.

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Putin says the Ukrainians are engaged in genocide of the Russian population, but this is not true. Zelensky says Russians are to blame for the genocide of Ukrainians. But the point is that it's hard to genocide someone who is your complete copy and when a Russian turns out to be Ukrainian and a Ukrainian turns out to be Russian. Here of course we can remember the Holodomor, except that at the same time my ancestors also starved, and they were not Ukrainians.

It is easier to use this term when we have two different sides. But how does it help? It doesn't help.

Yeah I hate the term. Claims of genocide are widespread.

I don't even know on what basis Putin can claim Ukrainians are engaged in genocide.

Ukraine's claims are nutty too, and the ICC warrant for Putin's arrest is just as nutty. Putin clearly didn't remove children with the intention of destroying the Ukrainian people, as if they would all age and die and Ukrainians would be no longer because there were no longer any children. This was just a weasel-move.

https://www.rt.com/russia/542741-genocide-in-donbass-putin/

European politicians will soon start calling street protests "genocide" 😂

You are genociding my ideas!

That’s a point. But often people do not understand how someone can make a statement like yours which doesn’t actually have a side, it’s seems to me simply a good sense, there is no part in this. It’s not partial, engaged on one or the other side…

And I also would add a point, nothing prevents the Jews to live freely in a Palestine which goes from the river to the sea 😁😁

The idea of a one-state solution is that there is one state, secular, and equal rights for all, where Israelis and Palestinians live together in blissful...

... oh, who am I kidding? It is not going to happen. At some point I predict there will be a serious escalation and hundreds of thousands of Jews and millions of Arabs will die in (probably) nuclear blasts. :-(

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