Realistically speaking General MacArthur’s plan would lead to the deaths of tens of thousands of people. Very in keeping with his namesake.
I think the Reasonable discussions of mass expulsions of what are again about 50% children on this forum make sense when you realize that most people simply do not care about civilian casualties other than those in the 20 or so countries which matter (and even then, look at our callousness towards mass shootings in America).
In 1991, 200,000 Palestinians were forced to leave Kuwait after Palestine supported Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War. Nobody died. There are many such examples in the middle east even recently.
Population transfers have been associated with death because they've typically been conducted by enemy armies that see the ethnic group being moved as subhuman vermin worthy of target practice, and they want to loot and destroy their homes. That is obviously not what I'm talking about here.
Also it's funny to see tankies acting shocked and horrified at a population transfer when China does massive population transfers every single year, and the Soviet Union under Stalin did this dozens of times. Now, those transfers were based on ethnicity. Kicking everyone out of Gaza would not be based on ethnicity. It would be based on the fact that they are an enemy state, culpable in a genocide, that declared war on Israel (and presumably, quickly lost said war). After World War 2, we did far more difficult population transfers on a far greater scale than this. Did hundreds of thousands of people die? Nope.
Firstly, if you're calling me a "tankie." That's hilarious. Definitely a new one.
Secondly, why are you saying that population transfer is normal and okay because various totalitarian regimes have done it? Not a great case. Also....thousands of Germans did die in Post-WWII population transfers. So.....what's your point?
I'd still like you hear how you expect to move 2 million people out of their homes into a country that will never have them without having a mass death event on your end. I know ethnic cleansing is harder then you thought.
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