• SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    “Look at me displacing almost 2 million people and bombing their homes and cities whole to the ground one by one. It’s not a genocide though, because I haven’t explicitely claimed that my goal is to commit a genocide.”

    • juicy@lemmy.today
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      6 months ago

      The thing is, Israel’s leaders have expressed genocidal intent over and over again. Just read South Africa’s allegations at the ICJ. They have the receipts.

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        6 months ago

        When entire civilian populations are bombed or starved, then yes. The US is not free of war crimes. They’re merely immune from the consequences.

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          6 months ago

          Not just the US. Chechnya was invaded by Russia. German civilians were bombed by the UK and USSR.

          In fact, it’s hard to find a large-scale modern war that didn’t cause thousands of civilian casualties.

          • Pennomi@lemmy.world
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            6 months ago

            Absolutely, there were millions of civilian casualties in WWII. The difference here is that there have been, according to Israel, only 273 soldiers killed in ground operation combat vs the 13,000 civilians killed on Gaza’s side. (According to the new, lower estimates.) This is not so much a war as a one-sided beatdown.

            • DarkGamer@kbin.social
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              6 months ago

              Are you really suggesting that every asymmetrical war that is conducted successfully is genocide? O.o

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                6 months ago

                No, I’m saying that if a nation has such a huge advantage they also have more responsibility to select targets carefully so as to not kill noncombatants.

          • can@sh.itjust.works
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            6 months ago

            When it’s targeted at a specific group of people and there’s such a dramatic power imbalance, yes. Whether modern definitions agree or not.

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      6 months ago

      It’s almost as if words mean things and have specific definitions, especially legal ones. Feel free to criticize such behaviors with different accurate words for things you don’t like.

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          If someone punches you to death, declaring they weren’t trying to kill you doesn’t make them any less guilty of murder.

          Actually, in the US it could. Intent is the difference between murder and manslaughter.

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            6 months ago

            Curious how you moved the goal posts from “not openly stating one’s intent” which was used as justification to claim what Israel is doing is not a Genocide to “not having intent” which is what defines the difference between murder and manslaught.

            People are convicted of murder all the time when they didn’t openly said their intention was murder if it can be shown beyond reasonable doubt that it was their intention.

            So the previous poster’s point holds very well and you just further dug the grave on yours.

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            On the other hand, genocide was committed in October, when Hamas brutally attacked the Jewish state, murdering an estimated 1,200 people, Schiff said.

            …and the article lost credibility. If what Israel is doing isn’t genocide, then what Hamas did can’t be genocide.

            Looked up the people quoted in the article. Rabbi Danny Schiff is an ethics lawyer from Pittsburgh, not a genocide scholar. Avi Ben-Hur, who is more qualified to speak on this said:

            “We have a monster on our doorstep,” he said. “We were caught asleep. We had horrible things done to us. It’s not a question of payback. We have to retrieve our safety and security so people can go back to their homes and live their lives like normal people. We have to degrade the monster’s offensive capabilities so this can’t happen again.” source.

            Calling them “monsters,” and dehumanizing people, doesn’t gain my trust.

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              Oct 7 literally is an act of genocide, see my post above. You’re saying they don’t have credibility because you don’t understand what genocide is. This designation has nothing to do with body count.

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                Even if the definition of “genocide” is ceded. The crimes against humanity outlined in the ICJ against Israel and the ongoing humanitarian crisis created by the ongoing conflict is damning.

                If we wait to call it a “genocide” after it’s already been committed, then the world will have failed Palestine.