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Originally Posted by Fuzz
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.
https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition
What Israel is doing is, by definition, genocide. |
The "in part" part was introduced because Hitler was looking to eliminate all European Jews, rather than all Jews in the world. When taken literally, it could make killing one person a genocide, because one person is a part of a nation, ethnicity and religion. Or killing soldiers of an enemy army is genocide because all members of an army belong to the same nation and, usually, race and ethnicity.
This way, every war is a two-way genocide. For example, Russian-Ukraine war is genocide because Ukrainians are killing Russians, intending to destroy a part of a national group that are Russians, and Russians are genocding Ukrainians. Also Russians, unlike Israel, actually did a formal land grab.
So, applying definition in such a loose way may help you frame Israel's actions as genocide, but conversely bereft this word of its original horrible meaning.