Mr Milosevic also insisted that he did not order the mass expulsion of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo.

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Although the demand is intrinsically bigoted, illegal and immoral, and although the consequences of the expulsion of all Jews from Gaza in 2005 show that Israeli land giveaways and ethnic cleansing bring war not peace, the Netanyahu government has opted not to get into an open confrontation with the administration on the issue.

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Even though exceptions were made for people who could prove that they had opposed Hitler, the expulsion policy was still an example of collective guilt or, as many pointed out, ethnic cleansing.

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