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Certainly confirms Israeli ethnic cleansing.

As with Daniel below, a cursory read of the contents and parts of the body confirms Israeli ethnic cleansing. She at first says that the Palestinians aren't really "Palestinian", that they aren't an ethnic group, and if they are they are descended from Jews. By that standard, the US is not a "nation", as we are not a cohesive group - we have our Native Americans, our Anglo-Saxons, our Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Jews, Muslims, and some ethnic groups which don't come to mind. And our roots here don't go back very far, at all. According to Ms. Peters, it would be perfectly reasonable to "relocate" the bunch of us if she felt like it.

Then she says that the Palestinians SHOULD be relocated to take the place of Jews who immigrate. Even though they had lived on that land for centuries. "Palestinian refugees invited to leave in 1948". They weren't refugees. How would any of us like it if we were "invited to leave", and move to Mexico, or Britain, or Argentina? As is a raccoon when it becomes a nuisance. Trapped, and relocated.

That's "ethnic cleansing", my friends. And the Palestinians are not animals, to be "relocated" because someone wants their property. To be brutalized until they give up their traditional homes. Any more than you or I are.

Sounds a lot like the US treatment of Native Americans. I can see where the gov't would have said "(Insert tribe) refugees invited to leave Nebraska and Iowa, live on Oklahoma reservation (or be hunted down and killed, every man, woman and child).

Ms. Peters confirms what the ROW has known about that situation.

Arf

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