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Originally Posted by Pointman
So you keep dodging the main question. If Israel is genocidal towards Arabs, as ethnicity, or Muslims, as religion, why do they let over 2 millions of Muslim Arabs live un their country?
Instead of answering this question you bring about some lists of alleged crimes committed by Israel.
Thing is, even if Israel's intention is to clear the current inhabitants for the sake of a land grab, this, although illegal, does not constitute genocide. Neither by definition, nor by history, as the point of Holocaust was not to grab land.
So do you agree now, that what's going on is not a genocide, and now you want to discuss whether it's a land grab?
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You are under the mistaken assumption that genocide means eliminating all members of a group, and have also expanded the definition of who is being targeted from Palestinians to Muslim Arabs. I suspect next you will declare Palestinians don't exist as a people, which is why you chose Muslim Arabs.
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article II
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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https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition
What Israel is doing is, by definition, genocide.