• N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      Being forced from your homes; deprived of food, water, and healthcare; and tortured and terrorized is genocide by any definition.

      Comparing the effectiveness of your genocide to the effectiveness of Nazi genocide does not help your cause.

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        3 months ago

        genocide has a very specific definition under international law and “tortured and terrorized” is not genocide. It is torture, and terror.

        Do you consider Hamas’ terror attacks and torture of civilian hostages to be genocide against Israel? Of course you don’t. Why? Is it the lack of effectiveness of your genocide that makes you OK with it?

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          3 months ago

          Genocide is an internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group

          The destruction of Gaza and the continued displacement in the West Bank for this definition. Israel is destroying Palestine and the Palestinian people. That definition is from the Holocaust Museum.

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      3 months ago

      An outright instantaneous genocide would bring about too much bad publicity.

      Crippling the sovereign functionality of Palestinians along with killing and displacing ‘enough’ of them to prevent them from clawing any of that functionality back is the goal, and that’s what is happening.

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        3 months ago

        Typical fascist doublespeak, the enemy is both too strong and too weak. They are strong enough to do genocide, but too weak to actually do genocide so they have to do a hidden conspiracy super secret slow motion genocide which means will literally never actually finish the genocide they started.

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        3 months ago

        So it’s only genocide, if you redefine genocide to mean “crippling the sovereign functionality” instead of “destroying the people”.