P.S. I just explained in the OP why itās a lie. Now get out of my Clean Debate thread.
Your OP is pure propaganda, and really, not that good.
āThe application of the word genocide to refer to tens of thousands of war deaths,ā he wrote, āis a kind of blood libel⦠It really is a terrible blood libel, and itās a sign of how peopleās moralizing in the service of demonizing and dichotomizing can flatten their ability to think clearly.ā
Pinkerās point is devastating because it recalls an older pattern of hate. In medieval Europe, Jews were accused of murdering Christian children and poisoning well.
There it is, blood libel he screams. Damn fool. Listen to him.
To insist on the genocide label despite the evidence is to cross a moral line. It transforms legitimate criticism of Israelās conduct into a collective indictment of Jewish existence. It suggests that a people defending themselves from annihilation are themselves the annihilators. That inversion is antisemitism, pure and simple.
Look, he is begging the question here. He has in no way shown that Israel is not committing genocide. He wants to pretend Jews and Palestinians got along famously until the October surprise. There are no illegal Jewish settlements, it is not a problem for a group of people to live in a refugee status for THREE ******* GENERATIONS. It is not a problem that a group of people's movements are controlled, borders are sealed. Nah, everything was fine until that October, HORSE SHIT.
And notice, transforms legitimate criticism of Israel's conduct into a collective indictment of Jewish existence. That has been your overwhelming theme in almost every one of your threads. You can't criticize Israel because if you do it is a collective indictment of Jewish existence. In this case we are suppose to just accept the claim that Israel is defending themselves from annihilation.
Kind of hard to do that. Defending themselves from what? A bunch of "terrorists"? I mean they have an Air Force, nukes, a Navy, and a well armed military. Tell me again why they have to attack civilian areas? I mean here in the United States we have these dudes called policemen, or deputies, or marshals. And when bad dudes hide out in civilian areas, well them badder dudes go in and pick them up. Sometimes, the good guys get killed.
I mean it is really kind of hard to claim Israel's actions are not genocide. When the casualties of women and children far outweigh the number of enemy combatants killed. When the battlefield is pretty much a barrel of fish and Israel is shooting into the barrel. When they are targeting medical facilities, power infrastructure, and hampering the delivery of food aid. Hell, in some cases actually targeting those desperate people flocking to food distribution points.
Here is the thing. It hasn't been that long ago. In Charlotte, residential area, serving a warrant against a bad dude. I believe it was three law enforcement officers that lost their lives. The bad guy had the high ground. Second level of a house on a hill with good open area that had to be crossed. They got him. And it was tragic, but all three of those law enforcement officers knew they could lose their lives in the line of duty when they went to work that morning.
Those innocent women and children that Israel is slaying by the thousands. They didn't volunteer to give their lives to protect Jewish existence, and yet that is what happens. Maybe when more Jewish lives are sacrificed to protect that existence it won't seem so fragile.