How can we get more people talking about the inevitable consequences of forcing millions of people to leave their homes in a short period of time?
I don't want to wait until the camps become "a problem" to have that conversation.
I feel like none of these news outlet talk about the logistics and what they imply.
You can deport thousands of people. It would be bad. You shouldn't but it could be done. You can't do millions. I feel sick.
It was Timothy Snyder's book "Black Earth" that opened my eyes to the reality that deporting people at scale is impossible, that keeping people alive in captivity is difficult and expensive, and that it was incompetence in addition to evil which caused the Nazi concentration camps to become death camps. I have these screenshots from the ebook that I keep on my phone so that I can share them when the topic comes up.
@marymessall @futurebird There is a difference, though. The Gaza strip has the size of one city, all people are on one place. You don't have to collect them from all around a nation. We "just" talk about 2 Million people. There were bigger evacuations before. E.g. Pomerania in 44/45 (3-7M), Moscow in 41 (1.5-3M). Shipping people onto an Island with very little Infrastructure during a time when all vessels were possibly blocked or sunk by the enemy is a different story.
