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Originally Posted by Pointman
You are wrong. The definition of genocide mentions ethnicity, religion or nation. Jewish people means ethnicity. However, the goal of destroying Israel and removing all citizens of Israel from the land is genocide by national criteria.
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
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Destroying a national group, not a nation.
If for example, the United States goes to war against North Korea, dismantles their military, topples their regime and the outcome is reunification with South Korea, they would have destroyed North Korea as a nation, but not the Korean people.
Likewise, if the US decides one day to carpet bomb North Korea killing 40% of their population, starves their population, destroys their hospitals, etc, that is genocide.