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Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ... by throwaway3060 on Saturday June 28, 2025 @08:35PM (#44409370)
Ethnostate is an ambiguous word. Does it mean ethnically homogenous? Israel is certainly not that. Does it mean, essentially, a nation-state whose "national group" is an ethnicity? Israel is that - but so is much of Europe and some parts of Asia.
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Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ... by leereeves on Saturday June 28, 2025 @09:19PM (#44409586)
How many of those have declared themselves to be the Nation-State of the X people? (at least after the 1940s)
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Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ... by throwaway3060 on Saturday June 28, 2025 @09:49PM (#44409726)
Many former Soviet and former Yugoslavia nations did this.

I ran the question by AI, and it seems to think that somewhere between 30-50 since WWII have done so explicitly.

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Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ... by leereeves on Sunday June 29, 2025 @12:52AM (#44410441)
Seems fair to call those ethnostates as well.

Edit: I asked ChatGPT "How many nations have declared themselves to be the Nation-State of a people?" earlier and got the same answer as you. I asked again just now and got "Israel is the only nation in the world that has legally declared itself the “Nation‑State of the Jewish People.”" [I didn't specify Jewish]

Can't rely on AI.

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Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ... by peppers-ghost on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @09:37AM (#44433804)
You should consider that AI is often wrong and stop using it as a source of truth.
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