• fosforus@sopuli.xyz
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    11 months ago

    I would bet some amount of money that Palestinians will exist in that area in the year 2043. Hopefully, their state will not, at least in its current form. It’s obviously not a genocide.

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      11 months ago

      It’s most definitely absolutely a genocide even if they don’t kill every last Palestinian you fucking ghoul

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          11 months ago

          In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

          1. Killing members of the group;
          2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
          3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
          4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
          5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

          That’s directly from the UNs genocide convention.

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            11 months ago

            So pretty much everything that happens in the area between the river and the sea is a genocide, including everything Hamas does. I think this dilutes the meaning of the word somewhat, and especially makes it practically impossible to condemn anybody of it in this particular conflict.