Is Israel Guilty of Genocide?

American Thinker ^ | 05/03/2024 | By Col. Lawrence Franklin (Ret.), Al Bienenfeld

[SeekAndFind]

This scandalous anti-Israel orientation has successfully pressured the White House to demand that the Israeli Defense Force (“IDF”) give up its strategically advantageous position and yield to demands for a ‘short of victory’ ceasefire.

Israel’s ostensible “supporters” are quiet about the complexities of urban guerilla warfare against a determined, dug-in, well-armed adversary that invites attacks because it uses Gazan civilians as human shields in a propaganda war that’s more important than the war on the ground. The reports also ignore the advanced weaponry Hamas received from Iran, such as attack drones, mobile rocket launchers, long-range sniper rifles, and Improvised Explosive Devices (IED).

The IDF’s task is further complicated because its mission is to bring home any surviving hostages still in Hamas’s hands.

[Eccl 10:2]

NO

[SeekAndFind]

No military has ever implemented any of these practices in war before.

The IDF has also air-dropped flyers to give civilians instructions on when and how to evacuate, including with safe corridors. [snip] Israel has dropped over 520,000 pamphlets, and broadcast over radio and through social media messages to provide instruction for civilians to leave combat areas.

Israel's use of real phone calls to civilians in combat areas (19,734), SMS texts (64,399) and pre-recorded calls (almost 6 million) to provide instructions on evacuations is also unprecedented.

The IDF also conducted daily four-hour pauses over multiple consecutive days of the war to allow civilians to leave active combat areas.

Despite the unique challenges Israel faces in its war against Hamas, it has implemented more measures to prevent civilian casualties than any other military in history.

[rktman]

One word. Oct 7th 2023. Sadly, most folks will never see the videos of the brutality they hang glider assclowns performed on the kids at the rave party.

[SpaceBar]

Even asking the question is stupid, and simply brings the discussion down to the level of the idiots trashing college campuses.

[BobL]

If Israel wanted to ‘Genocide’ their enemies, the entire swath of North Africa and virtually all of Middle East (other than Israel, of course), and likely Iran (thanks to Jimmy Carter, I might add) would now be EMPTY.

And Israel could have EASILY done such, on multiple occasions, although not as much now (especially since the Zeepers are forcing them to hand over their Patriots to Ukraine).

[CarolinaPeach]

No.

Peach

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Israel’s enemies are charging the world’s only Jewish nation with committing genocide.

The word "genocide" is casually thrown around by idiots who don't know the meaning of the word.

[Texas Fossil]

NO

Absolutely NO.

[sauropod]

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[threefinger]

The word “genocide” was invented from whole cloth by Polish Jew and lawyer Raphael Lemkin in about 1944 to describe Nazi Germany’s campaign to exterminate the Jews and the Poles. His definition of genocide was used verbatim as one of the charges prosecuted by the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide

If you attack a civilian population without provocation and as a consequence get hammered into dust, that isn’t genocide, it’s justice.

If you attack the Israelis without provocation and don’t kill them all, don’t expect to have a peaceful nights sleep again. Ever.

[KrisKrinkle]

“Resting on that singular historical example, the United Nations Office to Prevent Genocide defines this crime as any acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.”

“In part”?? So if I want to destroy only the part of the Palestinian/Muslim group that wants to destroy me that still means I want to commit genocide?

[EinNYC]

NO. FJB.

[sasquatch]

would now be EMPTY.

This might be a good time.

[DoughtyOne]

No

[Captainpaintball]

No, goyim! And ya gonna let us ship ONE MILLION PIECES OF CRAP PALESTINIANS to your country, right schmuck? That’s what ya bible sez, stupid! Yeah, that’s the ticket! Now, putz, who’s ya daddy?

[TheBattman]

If Israel is attempting to commit “Genocide”, they are doing it all wrong... They have had the opportunity to wipe out even hundreds of thousands as they congregated in “safe-zones” - and chose to selectively fire on only the #hamas terrorists (yes, there will be collateral damage when such terrorists literally embed among thousands of civilians... yet you cannot just let them walk.

[JCL3]

Article title wrongly spelled Fauci as Israel.

[Golden Eagle]

No, they are responding to an attack initiated against them, and seeking to rescue hostages that were taken during that attack.

Have they been overly aggressive in that response, and possibly if not likely broken international rules of war, yes.

[JimRed]

The word “genocide” was invented from whole cloth by Polish Jew and lawyer Raphael Lemkin in about 1944 to describe Nazi Germany’s campaign to exterminate the Jews and the Poles.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but the tone of that sentence suggests that you may consider use of the word invalid. If Lemkin had not been a Jew, would it be acceptable?