Sadanand Dhume #crackpot #dunning-kruger #elitist #pratt #psycho #racist

Sadanand Dhume #crackpot #dunning-kruger #elitist #pratt #psycho #racist aei.org

If Indians and Pakistanis Can Relocate, Why Can’t Gazans?

President Trump’s idea that the U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip and relocate two million Palestinians has elicited outrage and derision. But even if the idea never comes to fruition, it has this virtue: It puts a spotlight on the world’s double standard toward Israel.

Many population transfers have taken place over the past century. In the 1920s, Greece and Turkey agreed to a forced population swap: Greek Orthodox Christians in Turkey moved to Greece, while Muslims in Greece moved to Turkey. After World War II, millions of Indians and Pakistanis were forced to find new homes, as were ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. In the 1970s, Uganda expelled Indians. Only in the Palestinian case has the refugee question festered endlessly.

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Sand Dune wants Gaza to go bye bye because of his bias.

This is right up there with taking a Native American tribe’s ancestral land away because white poeple wanted to drill for oil or mine for gold.
Trump doesn’t even offer to find a place for the displaced Palestinians, just delegates those brown people to other brown people.
This is bad, all those other forced swaps were bad. Trump’s not after peace, he’s using the Oval Office for personal profit.

The India/Pakistan “relocations” in particular killed hundreds of thousands, possible millions of people, lead to a long series of wars of Kashmir and finally to a nuclear standoff that is estimated could lead to a war that would kill a quarter of the human race overnight and wreck civilization.

And he wants to do that again.

They were forced to do so. That OP wants to repeat tragedies and atrocities that would violate international laws says he sees history as how to guide. Too bad he doesn't know what becomes of empires

Even if we were to look past the atrocity of the whole idea, Indians and Pakistani had countries to move to. This is not the case for Palestinians.

Already a well stated case that absolutely none of these examples are things that should have happened, either. And in fact, all had people objecting to them at the time, as well. This is no different, but it should be. Palestinians should not be forcibly removed. And should not have to “make the choice” to move themselves, because Israelis aren’t making enough money.

It might be the first piece where the Partition of India is actually described as a good thing.

I don’t think that two rival states, both having nuclear weapons, is an optimal outcome.

Many population transfers have taken place over the past century.

Yeah, and more before that. The problem is, people often don’t wanna be transferred from where they lived against their will.

“We did this horrible thing in the past, why can't we do it again!?”

Because hopefully we've learned some sort of lesson from history, asshole! Jesus fuck!

Sadanand Dhume #crackpot #dunning-kruger #elitist #pratt #psycho #racist aei.org

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