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On Ethnic Cleansing

JL;DR SUMMARY Natan Slifkin examines the moral outrage surrounding population relocations and ethnic cleansing, focusing on Trump's proposal to relocate Gazans. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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TrumpGazaWorld War IiInternational LawMigrationMiddle East ConflictEthnic CleansingMoral ComplexityNatan SlifkinSudeten Germans

Places mentioned

Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"First, let us divide the population of Gaza into two categories: those who want to leave (of which there are many), and those who do not want to leave (of which there are also many)."
Jordan
"Its unthinkable to let them any of them go to the East Bank of the Jordan, which was part of Palestine for most of history before it was awarded to the Hashemites of Arabia, and in which Palestinians form most of the population in a country that is ethnically identical to them."
Egypt
"And its unthinkable to let any of them go to Egypt, a country from which a large minority of Palestinians emigrated within the last two centuries."
Czechia
"Following World War II, millions of ethnic Germans, living within the borders of Czechoslovakia, were transferred out of Czechoslovakia, i.e. ethnically cleansed in modern parlance."
Indiana, United States
"Timothy Waters, of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, notes that claims by ethnically-cleansed Germans against the Czech Republic were roundly rejected by Europe."

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