On Gaza, Trump says the quiet part aloud
When Trump says "clean out" we need to hear it as the g-word
Trump Pushes Jordan and Egypt to Take in Palestinians to ‘Clean Out’ Gaza
— NY Times headline, January 26, 2025
Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as “the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by means such as “the disintegration of [its] political and social institutions, of [its] culture, language, national feelings, religion, and [its] economic existence.” — Wikipedia
“You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing. I don’t know. Something has to happen, but it’s literally a demolition site right now.”
— Donald Trump
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article II:
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
— U.N. Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect
“It's a phenomenal location. On the sea. The best weather. It’s like some beautiful things could be done with it.”
— Donald Trump
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