I have read a number of comments accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing, some of them on social media and, surprisingly, even some over at the Conservative Treehouse! A couple of examples:
Israel and predecessors have accomplished a slow moving ethnic cleansing over the last 100 years with some not too subtle terrorist and ethnic Lawfare means, news and history avoided by a complicit or owned media.
An honest review of the last 100 years is that Israel and its predecessors have repeatedly, and aggressively thumped the Palestinians in a slow moving ethnic cleansing.
The answer to this point of view?
Palestinians population has gone from 1.2 million in 1948 to 6 million today.
Life expectancy to 75 years. Obesity rate to 20-25 percent.
The Palestinian population is growing at a rate of 2.4% per year, which is 33% higher than Israel’s growth rate.

If Israel is attempting Palestinian ethnic cleansing, they must be really bad at it. There are more than two million people living in Gaza, and none of them are Jewish.
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