“Genocides: A World History” featuring Norman Naimark

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• DR

  @Drumsgoon · 8 years ago

  What about the old warfare between two tribes. One wins, the other's men are killed or enslaved, the woman are married off to the men of the winning tribe, the children are raised as part of the new tribe?

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• RA

  @ralphbernhard1757 · 8 years ago

  Excellent. Thanks for the insight and upload.

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• MI

  @mitrenches · 4 years ago

  By the definition of Dr Naimark, what happened in the book of Joshua, with regards to the conquest of Jericho and Canaan is NOT genocide. He says genocide is about there being nothing that the affected people can do about saving themselves from the attackers. So consider Rahab, who was spared for helping the two spies. She and her entire family were not killed. Rahab ended up in the lineage of Jesus Christ to boot. The Gibeonites were also another case. They found a way to obtain a covenant of peace with Israel, and God held Israel to account on it, and punished Israel later for trying to renege on that covenant with the Gibeonites when during the reign of Saul, he tried to have them exterminated contrary to the pact that Joshua entered into with them. The case cited of Saul and the Amalekites is not fully contextualised. The Amalekites were incorrigible enemies of Israel. Even the existence of one of them threatened the whole nation of Israel. God knew that. Hence His adamant refusal to accommodate their existence and His severe treatment of king Saul when he spared Agag. Later in history, Haman, an Agagite came close to wiping out the Jews in Persia as told in the story of Esther. God knew and knows the hearts of men. Hence His strict commands for the elimination of those who totally refused to change despite His patient waiting for them to turn. This is what happened with the Canaanites. He gave them about 430 years to repent, according to what He said to Abraham. The conquest of Canaan happened because the Canaanites became utterly and irredeemably corrupt.

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• GG

  @gggusc11 · 8 years ago

  Great interview

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• WH

  @whittakerdanielj · 7 years ago

  Interesting interview, yet there are some parts of the Old Testament writings that were overlooked.

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• KE

  @KenArkane · 8 years ago

  The Old Testament also tells us that the Canaanites were child-sacrificing worshippers of Baal, also known as Be'elzebub. But i understand, from a cultural relativist's perspective, that culture has as much value and right to exist as one that worships the creator, deems humans to be made in his image, and forbids sacrificing children to idols.

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• BO

  @bogumiapisz7469 · 8 years ago

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• NE

  @nelsano3 · 8 years ago (edited)

  Let's not forget Hannibal wiped out 86,000 Roman troops at Cannae, every last soldier was surrounded and butchered to the last man, the stretch of land they died on was a putrid sea of corpses for over a year afterwards,   it was one of the greatest military victories in history and almost the ruin of Rome. No wonder the Romans were pissed when they finally got to Carthage! Still....

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• AN

  @annak6918 · 8 years ago

  Norman "you know" Naimark

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• PG

  @PGHolmes · 8 years ago

  In the Gallic wars, Caesar did genocide various tribes along the Rhine. One tribe he was proud of destroying was the Ebruones, a northern Rhine tribe. Caesar also genocided the entire northern Italy flatland which was inhabited by the Gaul tribes.... If he read Caesar's Gallic wars, he'd know this. It was more than just pacification, was considered good and noble to wipe out the undistinguished races, to make way for what is to be a more civilized Earth.

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• JE

  @JerettOlson · 8 years ago

  I do no think he was being far with accient civilization cultural context.<br><br>My other concern, is that think he has look at genocide for so long that now he starting to see it every where. But I could be wrong.

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• PR

  @prahamama8915 · 6 years ago

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