@evan Was it in 1943?
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Amir E. Aharoni (aharoni@wikis.world)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 22:54:34 JST Amir E. Aharoni -
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Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 22:54:33 JST Evan Prodromou @aharoni I am having a hard time with this question, which means it was a good question. I think the power dynamics are much different in the two cases. I think that Hamas represents a threat to Israeli civilians, but not an existential threat in the same way that Nazis did in the 30s and 40s. And I think that the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in Gaza is a disproportionate response to that threat.
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Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 00:22:59 JST Evan Prodromou @aharoni But, yes, I think it would have been antisemitic to call for a ceasefire in 1943. There would probably be a net savings in human lives - 70M people died in WW2 - but it would mean the elimination of an entire people in a genocide. Accepting the genocide of the Jewish people as the price to save maybe tens of millions of lives would be antisemitic.
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