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Is "from the river to the sea" a call to genocide?

Why/why not?
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Burnley123 · 41-45, M
[i]From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. [/i]

It counts as a call for genocide only if you ignore one-half of the sentence.
@Burnley123 I don't know. It sort of begs the question, doesn't it? If Palestine is supposed to include all the land currently allocated to Israel, where are the Israelis supposed to go? Are they allowed to continue living there? Do they have to go "somewhere else"? (Never mind that we all know they don't have a somewhere else, which is why I include that in quotes.)
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@LordShadowfire If it was "from the river to the sea, we will destroy the Israeli," then I would get the outrage. Its not.

Freedom can happen in a two-state solution or a one-state solution that has equal citizenship laws. For me, this is almost the equivalent of people chanting for freedom (from coast to coast) in Jim Crow-era America and being told they are racists who want to kill all white people.
@Burnley123 Okay, but Hamas clearly doesn't want a two-state solution, or any state that allows Israelis to continue to exist, is my point. And apparently, the Prime Minister of Israel doesn't want a solution that allows Palestinians to continue to exist. So people suddenly saying "From the river to the sea" in that kind of climate can be taken to mean they want to remove the other side.

I don't know. Maybe I'm reading it wrong. Have an article, lol.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/river-sea-palestinian-nationalist-slogan-gaza-flashpoint/story?id=104767203
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@LordShadowfire Most people who sing that do not support Hamas
@Burnley123 I could make a comparison there to another country whose government wanted to get rid of a whole group of people...
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@LordShadowfire Granted a fair enough. The wasted tea in Boston harbour was still a dick move though, mate.