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I feel like people conflate words when talking about Israel painting them differently from reality.
There are many terrible things done by Israel, but let us not forget that there are even worse countries doing things that are terrible for different reasons.
The treatment of Palestinians is particularly hainous, but remember that there were worse genocides and more effective genocides this century. The bar to be the worst is incredibly terrible.
Against my better judgement, I'll bite: what other genocide this century was worse and by what metric? Even if we assume there is such a thing, I don't see how that's relevant in justifying Israel. It's like saying that you shouldn't care about the Bosnian genocide because there are other worse ones on this artificial scale.
Tigray is worst from number of dead, for example. Muslims in China are suffering, but information is difficult.
If you feel like reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st-century_genocides
There are also cases where the methods were particularly cruel and ones where there are virtually no survivors.
I don't really see how that's relevant. In which of these genocides have Western governments been COMPLICIT by supporting the side doing the genocide? Providing the equipment and international support to carry it out?
It's telling how the West has been very eager to label the Uyghur situation a genocide before any body was even documented (it's since been quietly downgraded to a cultural genocide), but still has not acknowledged any of its own genocides of recent history or the ongoing one it's supporting in Gaza. It's pure political theater that serves the current geopolitical order.
Here is how the West in general treats the horrors it is responsible for (this is just from yesterday):
The west has been complicit in south Sudan by delivering the tools via the Arabs. The war in eastern Congo is fueled by our need for resources.
You hyper focus on one genocide as a beacon of inhumanity while ignoring the very severe suffering of other people and barely caring about them in the name of reducing the genocides. You are not achieving that.
Also the slave trade was further in the past than happing yesterday. Not even figuratively
Oh, well if it’s not the only genocide it’s fine then!