It is NOT, NOT, NOT a few steps from genocide. You are saying the same as others by not totally calling it genocide but giving non expert opinions on what would eventually could become a genocide.
I was responding to your post #161
"Too close to genocide"?! What does that even mean? Genocide is not measured by body counts. It is a very specific, very horrific crime in which the INTENT is to ERADICATE a group of people based on their immutable qualities. One cannot start far away from genocide and then get closer, and closer because people are being killed in a war. It doesn't work like that. Genocide has to start with intent. Any accusation that Israel is committing genocide is so egregiously far from the truth that it boggles the mind.
Please, do tell. Because we have asked and asked and asked on this forum for someone to describe what Israel SHOULD have done in response to October 7, and so far, crickets. Do you have an answer?
I think you mean "doesn't" ring true. But your claims above are false and do not reflect reality.
The ICJ orders do not say what you think they say. The ICJ orders simply "reminded" Israel that they are to follow the convention they are already following. And to record how they were following it.
Disagree. I am very careful with the term genocide because I do think it gets used far too lightly.
Because Israel has no intent to cause the destruction of a collective peoples based on their immutable qualities. Israel is responding to an atrocity committed against them. Is the response significant? Of course it is. It HAS to be. Because Hamas and Islamic Jihad do have the intent to cause the destruction of an entire people.
1) It will never be a genocide, given Israel’s actions to protect Muslim civilians - many or most of whom ironically support the attempted genocide of Jews.
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The very fact that you bring up that term is proof that you are using this term too lightly. If you are not calling it a genocide, don't use the terminology.
The HAMAS savages are intent on driving up the Palestinian death toll as high as possible. These monsters would rather sacrifice their own people in order to make Israel look bad.
Wasn't it called Gaza in the time of Samson and Delilah?
Israel has enough to make them look bad over the past 80 years.
Ugh. The ratio of civilian to combatant deaths is 1.5 to 1. Its probably 1 to 1, given the way Hamas counts "civilians". That is better by FAR than any other conflict in recent history. Best before this was 5 to 1.
The side that wants a genocide is the Palestinians, and the only reason they haven’t succeeded is because they don’t have the capability. And yet, we have people accusing Israel of genocide, or close to genocide, thereby undermining the TRUE genocide that made the existence of Israel necessary in the first place.
You have no facts to support your claims, except for allegations from Anti Israel people, including those in the UN.
It is sneaky bullshit where you paint the Jewish people with the color of genocide and everyone starts then seeing the Jewish people as genocide-colored. Then you claim you didn't "really" mean it and therefore have no responsibility over why the Jewish people look genocide-colored.
