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The vast majority of Israelis say they are not troubled by reports of famine and suffering in Gaza, a new poll released by the Israel Democracy Institute shows.

The survey shows that 79 percent of Jews in Israel were not troubled, or troubled at all, whereas 86 percent of “Arab” respondents were somewhat or very troubled by the reports about the war on Gaza.

The survey was conducted between 27-31 July.

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[–] oce@jlai.lu -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Source on genocide being included in Zionism theory?

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

oh I see, zionists were going to take the land peacefully, You are claiming that was the plan? Shall I show you quotes from zionists about how they thought about that?

[–] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 4 days ago

Not sure about peacefully, ethnic cleansing is a crime in any case, but it's a notch down genocide. That's why I was curious if the early theoricians mentioned something akin to it or not. So far, it seems they didn't.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Technically it's not explicitly about genocide, but here's the big guy on the topic:

As to al-Khalidi concerns about the non-Jewish majority population of Palestine, Herzl replied rhetorically: "who would think of sending them away?"

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Herzl

Again, this isn't technically a genocidal idea in and of its own (though still crime against humanity stuff), but implementing it would inevitably wade pretty deep into genocide territory, as seen in the Nakba.

[–] oce@jlai.lu -5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This seems to be a weak source.
I have found a detailed article that claims that while the historical Zionism did mention relocating non-Jewish people, killing them was only a fringe opinion among ultra-nationalist religious people. But this opinion has been spreading with every major conflict until those extremists got power in the current government and was further accelerated by the October 7 attack. https://theconversation.com/in-israel-calls-for-genocide-have-migrated-from-the-margins-to-the-mainstream-250010

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

https://imeu.org/article/what-leading-israelis-have-said-about-the-nakba

Herzl’s Diary, 12 June 1895

The property owners will come over to our side. According to my conception, the majority of the local population will have to be transferred elsewhere.

We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country. - Herzl’s Diary, 12 June 1895

Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly - Herzl’s Diary, 12 June 1895

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As I said, Herzl wasn't explicitly calling for total extermination here, but what he was calling for could only happen via genocide. This is why the Nakba included so many bloody massacres (which, yes, those constitute a genocide).

[–] Dreamer@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

People seem to forget that when it came to Nazi rhetoric, the Nazis initially claimed they just wanted to "move the Jews".

There's a reason why the concentration extermination camps were called "The Final Solution" and not "First Attempt at creating an Aryan haven!"

For anyone curious, here's a website where you get to guess whether a quote is from a Nazi or Zionist: https://zionism.wtf/#zionist-or-nazi