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Yes yes, but in their defense Israel is a democracy, and Gaza is inhabited mostly by Muslims. So it's all good.
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It's so discouraging that the big controversy isn't what's happening, but what to call it. We can't defeat colonialism with semantics.
The attack on Gaza needs to stop, IDFAF if they call it a pumkin pie, just stop the goddamn pie.
Let's continue the discussion a little longer, so that they can then say that it WAS genocide!
"It's too late now. Never again, though... for realsies this time"
In their defence, there is no defined point. There are people out there that are so anti-assumption that it can take them a while. They will eventually reach a point like, "Well if there were defined conditions, surely they have been met by now." Basically it must be so full-scale that there can be no room left for doubt.
Unfortunately, such input is typically too little too late; it's just agreeing with the obvious because it's already so obvious.
In their defence, there is no defined point
Where something is considered genocide? That's simply not true.
any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
- (a) Killing members of the group;
— Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2
The nebulous term is "intent". That's not something that's always clear. Especially early on in the war the argument was that the intent was to destroy Hamas and rescue the hostages. That wouldn't be a genocide. But given what several cabinet ministers have now been publicly saying, we can determine that the intent is present.
It turns out that "group" can only mean Jews.