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From ergopraxis on Twitter: The Israeli state "warned" the total population of northern Gaza, a million people, to "leave" in a day or be murdered. This should evoke the imagery of the Armenian genocide, the burning of Smyrna, the ethnic cleansing of Bosnians and Albanians, of murderous forced marches.
This is *exactly* the face of genocide. An army forcibly displacing masses of civilians with the threat of murder, and indiscriminantly killing anyone who lags behind, whether they wouldn't abandon their homes, were too young or too old to move, didn't have enough information.
This is not an analogy. This is the most recognisable aspect of what genocide and ethnic cleansing has always looked like, these have been its precise means, in nearly every recorded historical instance of it. It's not an analogy.
People running frantically away from a marching army (or air-force, insignificant), forgetting or abandoning their property, losing each other in the hurry, forgetting their children, dying on the road, being killed when they lag behind or can't go on. Israel is a fascist state.