Here's what genocide looks like in numbers:
1939: 9.5 million Jews lived in Europe.
1945: 3.5 million left alive.
Here is Gaza
Gaza 2005: 1.35 million
Gaza 2023: 2.2 million
Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says 74,494 have died since. That is about one in thirty, and the count includes fighters. Every death is a tragedy. But a population that grows by two thirds and loses one in thirty in a war it started is not a genocide.
Hipkins should know the difference.
Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011. This article was first published HERE
5 comments:
You nailed it beautifully Rodney. Don’t those stats make the empty headed, from the river to the sea Swarbrick, look ridiculous along with her clueless supporters.
I can't help wondering whether politicians use Palestine to draw attention away from domestic issues that they are powerless to do anything about other than make empty promises. It is very much a left-wing strategy to fix people's attention on what is happening (often grossly exaggerated) outside their own borders. North Korean 'news' provides valuable insights into this phenomenon. (Read it - you'll likely think someone is trying to pull your leg!)
The genocide of Moriori on the Chathams by Willie Jxn's tribe was real - and quietly ( deliberately) forgotten.
However, today's citizens were forced to pay compensation to the remnants of the Moriori who escaped Jxn's forebears slaughter and cannibalism.
Absolutely true.
And not mentioned in any of the indoctrination by Maori radicals today who promote the idea that it was all peace, harmony, and kapahapa competitions.
Gaza has been the 'cause du jour' among the look-at-me poseurs for a while, hence Greta Thunberg's switch from Climate Change to Gaza flotillas.
But now we have 'AI will kill us all' to worry about, I predict Gaza as a topic will fade away with the look-at-me's switching to data centre hysteria instead.
Has anyone designed an anti-datacenter flag yet?
In response to 10.22 , when Jackson was asked why is his tribe isnt paying the Moriori instead of the crown , his reply , :that was way before my time : well hello Willy , not one of your smartest answers .
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