(Washington Times) Wesley Pruden - The man who controls the language controls the conversation, as George Orwell rightly observed. Genocide is what Hitler set out to do, to exterminate Europe's Jews. The manifesto of the Black Lives Matter movement applies "genocide" to Israeli self-defense in Gaza. There's neither logic nor data to prove it. "Between 1939 and 1945," writes Joseph Telushkin in Tablet, "one-third of the Jewish people in the world were murdered. That was genocide. And since Israel took control of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 [as a result of a] war of self-defense, the Arab population in these two areas has gone from just over a million to 4 million. That is not genocide. It's a population explosion." The writer is editor in chief emeritus of The Times.
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