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No There Is Not A "Genocide" In Gaza
Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 24 Aug, 2025 | Francis Menton

Posted on 08/25/2025 5:40:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 08/25/2025 5:40:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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Gaza was a “Two State” solution. HAMAS just used it as a platform to attack Israel. The two state solution failed.


2 posted on 08/25/2025 5:40:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Paging MTG!


3 posted on 08/25/2025 5:50:44 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: MtnClimber

Any two state solution will fail because it goes against what God intermediary for Israel. You can’t reason with the unreasonable who want to kill you.


4 posted on 08/25/2025 5:51:05 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: MtnClimber

Any two state solution will fail because it goes against what God intended for Israel. You can’t reason with the unreasonable who want to kill you.

Sorry about the typo.


5 posted on 08/25/2025 5:51:49 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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“”I have no idea how it is that new rules seem to have emerged, applicable only to Israel (or maybe to only Israel and the United States) whereby any civilian casualties in war are now deemed โ€œgenocide.โ€ The use of the term seems to be directed at appealing to soft-minded and historically ignorant students and academics in Western countries. But endless repetition of an inapplicable term cannot change a classic war into something else.””

Reasonable people .... ie not those that are anti-semite, Jew-haters, leftists and anti-American, anti-Israel propagandists... know that it’s not genocide. What you, Francis Menton, are alluding to has been pushed by the radical left for decades and yes, it applies ‘only’ to America and to Israel. No victory of any kind is allowed to those two nations by the globalist left.

I say reasonable people, because only sane, reasonable people realize that it (the accusations of genocide by Israel) is all a bunch of BS and lies pushed by those that hate Israel and choose the world view against ‘da Jews’. If the Jew-haters have their way, America will turn against Israel as will the rest of the world... just as it is written in the end days. They are going against God as they fulfill biblical prophecy. Which is the main reason why I detest their stance and their propaganda.


6 posted on 08/25/2025 6:03:46 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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“No There Is Not A “Genocide” In Gaza”

Oh, but there is. What else would you call Oct 7?


7 posted on 08/25/2025 6:07:42 AM PDT by farmguy ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Tell MTG that.


8 posted on 08/25/2025 6:08:51 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘! Winning currently!)
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To: MtnClimber

Terrorists and terrorist sympathizers are getting what they deserve. That is called justice.


9 posted on 08/25/2025 6:09:01 AM PDT by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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To: jacknhoo

Two great minds, you and me. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ‘


10 posted on 08/25/2025 6:10:40 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘! Winning currently!)
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To: MtnClimber

It is touching how in this age, when all norms have been destroyed by the left, a rational person still has faith that flawless logic will carry weight with people who base their reality on emotion and ideology without any input from rationality.
Great article but it will not sway even one of the “Free Palestine” cabal or their useful idiots. The battle Trump is waging for America is against the army of chaos for whom rationality and reality is not even an option. He is reestablishing a rational pragmatic basis for American government’s actions.
Even more importantly is the war against those people pulling the strings of the cabal. Those people are coldly rational, ruthlessly working to accomplish domination & subjugation on a grand scale. Their means of wielding power must be eliminated.


11 posted on 08/25/2025 6:16:09 AM PDT by JayGalt (For America!)
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No There Is Not A “Genocide” In Gaza


I’ve been pointing that out to those nincompoops on Bluesky since I became a member there last year. The result: I’m now blocked by just under 1,000 of them.๐Ÿคฃ


12 posted on 08/25/2025 6:17:51 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: ViLaLuz

It also goes against what the Muslims there will allow without war.


13 posted on 08/25/2025 6:18:28 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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No There Is Not A "Genocide" In Gaza

Yes, there is. It is Muslims against Jews. What do you think the Jihad is for?

14 posted on 08/25/2025 6:21:26 AM PDT by CptnObvious
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15 posted on 08/25/2025 6:22:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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“No There Is Not A “Genocide” In Gaza”

If there ever is, it will probably be sponsored by Hamas.


16 posted on 08/25/2025 6:26:38 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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Genocide - Wikipedia
Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their
membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people.


Definition: Genocide is the intent to destroy a specific national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, in whole or in part, through acts such as killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, or preventing reproduction. Coined by Raphael Lemkin, the concept was later codified in the Genocide Convention, which serves as the legal basis for defining and prosecuting the crime of genocide.

Key Aspects of Genocide
Targeting a Group:
Genocide specifically targets members of a protected group, rather than individuals, and is motivated by their membership in that group.

Intent to Destroy:
The defining feature of genocide is the intent to destroy the group, even if the destruction is not immediate or complete.

Specific Acts:
Under the Genocide Convention, prohibited acts include: Killing members of the group. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.

Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Historical Context
The term “genocide” was coined by Raphael Lemkin to describe the systematic destruction of groups, drawing on events like the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust.

The international legal definition, while largely based on Lemkin’s ideas, was influenced by powerful countries that sought to limit its scope, particularly excluding political groups and cultural destruction from the Convention’s initial draft.

Distinction from Other Crimes
Genocide is often considered the most severe crime, even worse than other atrocities that result in similar numbers of civilian deaths. Unlike other crimes, the intent to destroy a group as a whole is the central element of genocide.


See: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Genocide Convention - Wikipedia
Definition of genocide * The convention was passed to outlaw actions similar to the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust.


17 posted on 08/25/2025 6:29:23 AM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))
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To: JayGalt

“people who base their reality on emotion and ideology without any input from rationality.”

You understand the problem. How does one have a rational conversation with someone who believes in “women with penises”? It would be easier to talk to someone who believed in Leprechauns.


18 posted on 08/25/2025 6:34:29 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
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It’s clearly ethnic cleansing, and by broader definitions of genocide, now seemingly universally used, that is genocide. (I’d rather just leave it more precisely as ethnic cleansing.)


19 posted on 08/25/2025 6:36:41 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: MtnClimber

And October 7 was clearly a green flag operation.


20 posted on 08/25/2025 6:37:31 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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