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Originally Posted by Leondros
Can you please point me to where the hell your made of definition of genocide is documented?
Per the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide:
Where is this brightline test you are referring where a population needs go down for genocide to be considered to have transpired?
Does the complete devastation and destruction of the entire Gaza strip not meet the below criteria as it pertains to the Palestinian people of Gaza?
(a) Killing members of the group
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
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The definition of Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group. Less the 1% of people being killed does not constitute as a large number, like I said, the total amount of Palestinians that have been killed since 1948 does not compare to any other genocide as the % of Palestinians killed due to the conflict is significantly lower than any other genocide and that is over a span of 75 years. If you just research the genocide of the Amhara people which has been occurring since the 1990’s in Ethiopia it is pretty easy to spot the difference between an actual genocide that gets zero coverage and this conflict where a genocide is not actually occurring. If Israel is trying to destroy the Palestinians why is 20% of Israeli citizens of Palestinian heritage? Why would Israel offer peace deals multiple times with a people they are intending to destroy? Israel is not committing a genocide, they are fighting a war with Hamas. It’s a war zone, civilians get killed, especially when used as human shields, and it is terrible, there are many other words to describe what is going on, a genocide is not one of them. Israel is not rounding up Palestinians and mass murdering them, which is a characterization of almost every genocide. This is an armed conflict and Gaza is a war zone. Gaza is ruled by Hamas, Hamas attacked on October 7th, hence the war. If Israel was truly genocidal they could have carpet bombed Gaza decades ago, but here they are sending in their soldiers who are facing casualties to limit the amount of civilian deaths. The use of the word genocide to describe what is going on demeans the word, and then it also makes it seem like people who argue against it seem non compassionate. I would like to see the Palestinians have a state in my lifetime, I would like to see Israel be left alone to live in peace as well and understand the only way for that to be possible is for Palestinians to have their own state. I can admit Palestinian towns were ethnically cleansed in 1948 and that the Palestinians have legitimate grievances with Israel. But It still does not make the term genocide applicable to their situation.