It isn’t Hamas’s fault that the settlers terrorised hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into a small pocket of land back in 1948, nor can Hamas be blamed for Gaza’s seizure in 1967, nor can Hamas be blamed for the apartheid régime having control over Gaza’s electricity and all of the other resources that can’t get in. Like I said two years ago: if the IOF merely wanted to get rid of Hamas, they could have done it less violently.
Interestingly, Herzlians never pause to ask theirselves why Hamas exists in the first place. The implication is that it simply materialized out of nothingness and to even so much as hint that the apartheid régime had anything to do with its early success or survival makes you an antisemite and possibly even worse than every Axis official and Axis collaborator combined.
By camouflaging among civilians—placing weapons, tunnels, and command posts in and under hospitals, schools, mosques, and apartment buildings—Hamas has committed an act of dehumanicide.
Oh look, it’s this trope again. Yawn.
This article is so generic that a computer programme could have churned it out. It comes with flagrant disregard for international institutions:
the highly politicized International Criminal Court is a total sham.
Dubious claims:
I'm sometimes asked what I think of Israel's "genocide." I reply by asking them what "genocide" means. Their typical reply to me? A blank look.
Sheer boneheadedness:
Israel is not trying to wipe a people off the Earth, and the evidence for that fact is all around—from Israeli troops' presence on the ground in Gaza (why would that be if they were trying to wipe Palestinians out?), to Israel's conduct in Judea and Samaria (where there is no active war against the Palestinians, much less something more dramatic)
And, of course, war crime denial:
The real tragedy is not an imaginary genocide by Israel, but the systematic dehumanization of Palestinians by their own supposed leaders.
Systematic dehumanization of Palestinians by their own supposed leaders? Yeah, Netanyahu and his cronies are systematically dehumanising the Palestinians. We know that already!
Finally, the seal of quality:
Jason D. Greenblatt was President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy between 2017 and 2019.
It's utterly disgusting that someone would seriously respond to being told that a genocide is being committed with "define genocide".
Completely innocent Palestinians are being mercilessly slaughtered by colonisers who clearly want to wipe them out and take all their land.
Nobody gives a shit if you can "own" someone in a debate because they haven't memorised exact legal definitions and/or you want to actually argue that in some way it's not "technically" a genocide.
Zionists are constantly trying to make things more complicated than they have to be, as if some minute detail can justify severe crimes against humanity.
This isn't a debate. This isn't academia. This is a genocide. They're scared of people knowing the truth so they have to act as though nobody really understands the "nuance" of killing thousands of children.