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Many [neutrality is disputed] scholars interpret the book of Joshua as referring to what would now be considered genocide. [1] When the Israelites arrive in the Promised Land, they are commanded to annihilate "the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites" who already lived there, to avoid being tempted into idolatry. [2]
Warfare represents a special category of biblical violence and is a topic the Bible addresses, directly and indirectly, in four ways: there are verses that support pacifism, and verses that support non-resistance; 4th century theologian Augustine found the basis of just war in the Bible, and preventive war which is sometimes called crusade has also been supported using Bible texts.
In this book, Conquest supported the view that the famine was a planned act of genocide. [27] According to historians Stephen Wheatcroft and R. W. Davies, "Conquest holds that Stalin wanted the famine ... and that the Ukrainian famine was deliberately inflicted for its own sake." [2]
The Deluge saw Poland lose an estimated 1/3 of its population due to wars, famine, and plague [citation needed] Poland: 1649: Famine in northern England [50] England: 1650–1652: Famine in the east of France [51] France: 1651–1653: Famine throughout much of Ireland during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland [52] Ireland: 1661
The story of Mary of Bethezuba is a story of cannibalism told by Josephus in his "Jewish War" (VI,193) [1] which occurred as a consequence of famine and starvation during the siege of Jerusalem in August AD 70 by Roman legions commanded by Titus. The tale is only one account of the horrors suffered at Jerusalem in the summer of 70.
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Cindy McCain, the executive director of the World Food Programme, said she believes there is a "full-blown famine" in northern Gaza. "Whenever you have conflicts like this, and emotions rage high ...
The Senate unanimously adopted a motion on the recognition of the Holodomor as a "Famine-Genocide" in 2003, [68] for Canada "to condemn any attempt to deny or distort this historical truth as anything less than a genocide", [h] and called for a day of remembrance for "those that perished during the time of the Ukrainian Famine Genocide" to be ...