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Anonymous (ID: vpyD47T4) No.513471667 >>513471802 >>513471827 >>513472028 >>513472173 >>513473697
Alexander the Great committed genocide in Gaza in Palestine and Tyre in Lebanon
According to definition of genocide, Alexander the Great also committed genocide in Gaza, Palestine and Tyre, Lebanon like Israel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Gaza_(332_BC)

>Batis refused to surrender to Alexander.[9] When Gaza was taken, the male population was put to the sword and the women and children were sold into slavery.[10] In the battle, there were 10,000 Gazaean casualties.[11]

>According to the Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus,[12] Batis was killed by Alexander in imitation of Achilles' treatment of the fallen Hector:[13] A rope was forced through Batis's ankles, probably between the ankle bone and the Achilles tendon, and Batis was dragged alive by chariot beneath the walls of the city until he died.[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Tyre_(332_BC)#Conclusion_of_the_siege

>According to Quintus Curtius Rufus 6,000 fighting men were killed within the city and 2,000 Tyrians were crucified on the beach.[13] The others, some 30,000 people, were sold into slavery. The severity of reprisals reflected the length of the siege and Alexander's response to the Tyrians having executed some of his soldiers on the walls, in sight of the attackers.

>Following the capture of Tyre, Alexander moved south to attack Gaza.

https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

>Definition
>Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
>Article II

>In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

>Killing members of the group;
>Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
>Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
>Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
>Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
>Elements of the crime
Anonymous (ID: OxuqHOJW) Poland No.513471802 >>513472078 >>513472386
>>513471667 (OP)
alexander didnt arrive in gaza like pic rel
Anonymous (ID: GMmHsk81) United States No.513471827
>>513471667 (OP)
bruh there have been countless genocides in history. that is human history in a nutshell.
Anonymous (ID: vpyD47T4) No.513472028
>>513471667 (OP)
>Elements of the crime
>The Genocide Convention establishes in Article I that the crime of genocide may take place in the context of an armed conflict, international or non-international, but also in the context of a peaceful situation. The latter is less common but still possible.
Anonymous (ID: NJ67UZKg) Germany No.513472078 >>513472386
>>513471802
Jews always come as settlers, traders, bankers, refugees and always as victims, but never as conquerors.
Anonymous (ID: o6rfsfwK) Sweden No.513472173
>>513471667 (OP)
>ancient figure commited war crimes
Whoah, big if true.
Wait until you find out what he did to the hereditary guardians of the Didyma when he ran into them in Maracanda or what his dad did to the Olynthians.
Anonymous (ID: vpyD47T4) No.513472386
>>513471802
Circassian Muslims also arrived in Galilee, Palestine like that after they got genocided in Circassia by Russia.

The Circassians who settled in Galilee then sided with the Jews and serve the Israeli army and kill Palestinians. They are fighting in Gaza now.

>>513472078
The Yemeni Jewish Himyarite kingdom did genocide of Christians in Najran.

And the Khazars also invaded other people and killed them.

Both Himyar and Khazars were converts to Judaism though and already existed as kingdoms before they converted and started massacring non-Jews.
Anonymous (ID: vpyD47T4) No.513473697 >>513473738 >>513474983
>>513471667 (OP)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2024/01/07/war-in-gaza-the-shadow-of-alexander-the-great-s-siege_6410040_23.html

War in Gaza: The shadow of Alexander the Great's siege
COLUMN
auteur
Jean-Pierre Filiu

Historian and professor at Sciences Po Paris

To find a tragedy on the scale of the one happening today in Gaza, we'd have to go back to Alexander the Great's merciless siege of the city in 332 BC, writes Le Monde columnist Jean-Pierre Filiu.

Published on January 7, 2024, at 2:15 pm (Paris)

https://alexander-the-great.org/alexanders-campaign/siege-of-gaza

Aftermath
When Gaza was finally captured by Alexander he executed all of the men and sold the women and children into slavery. With Gaza eliminated there was a clear path of mobility and communication between Greece and Egypt and this would allow him to continue his advance throughout the Persian Empire. According to the Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus, Batis was treated by Alexander in the same manner that Achilles treated Hector following the siege of Troy during the Trojan War.

According to his account a rope was forced through the ankles of Batis and then he was dragged alive by a chariot beneath the walls of the city. Alexander who normally showed restraint towards his enemies was infuriated by the personality of Batis and his refusal to acknowledge Alexander by kneeling. For this Alexander promptly had him executed in a horrible manner. From here Alexander would continue to march unimpeded into Egypt and conquer the territory without much issue.

Sources
D. W. Engels: Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army, University of California Press, Berkeley and London, 1978, ISBN 0-520-04272-7, pp. 72f. (fn. 7)
Anonymous (ID: vpyD47T4) No.513473738 >>513474983
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https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/gazas-troubles-began-long-ago/
Gaza’s antagonistic relationship with the Jews also dates back to the first century BC. As the Seleucids also imploded, an ambitious Jewish dynasty, the Hasmoneans, seized power in Jerusalem. They forcibly converted the people of the neighbouring cities that they captured, including Gaza, with varying success. Relations between the Gazans, who were then pagans, and the Jews, were poor. When the Romans took over the region, and Nero ruled against the Jews in a long-running dispute in Caesarea, the pagan residents of numerous mixed cities in the region, believing Nero had effectively given them carte blanche, attacked their Jewish neighbours, who retaliated. The violence culminated in Rome’s sacking of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Paganism survived in Gaza long into the Christian era. After securing the Roman emperor’s permission, in 402 the local bishop attacked and burnt down the Marneum, the great temple in the city, but not before meeting stiff resistance from its priests.
Anonymous (ID: vpyD47T4) No.513474983
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