Posted on 05/03/2024 10:21:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Genocide as a word and internationally accepted concept did not exist before 1944. It was specifically created to describe how the Nazis sought to eliminate the entirety of the Jewish population in Europe. 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.
This narrow definition under international law consists of two principal prerequisites: intent and a specific group’s physical destruction. This was certainly the case when Hitler almost entirely exterminated European Jewry and when the Hutu government massacred Rwanda’s Tutsi population in 1994.
Currently, there are politically motivated and rhetorically irresponsible charges of genocide leveled at Israel. These disingenuous accusations are a weapon of war that terrorist groups such as Hamas and its allies are using to achieve strategic political victory in the struggle for universal information dominance. Israel’s actions in Gaza were a response to Hamas’s October 7. 2023 assault against a mostly defenseless civilian population. Consequently, it seems incongruent that anyone is granting credibility to these anti-Israel charges of genocide rather than seeing them as pure antisemitism.
It's not just Israel’s open foes that claimed that Israel’s military operations have inflicted disproportionate damage upon Gaza’s civilian population. Even those who acknowledge her right to self-defense have chimed in. And while the Western media obscure Israel’s efforts to show accurately the scope of Hamas’s atrocities against Israeli civilians on October 7, these same outlets lovingly portray Hamas’s inflated civilian death numbers for Gaza.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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.
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.
Even asking the question is stupid, and simply brings the discussion down to the level of the idiots trashing college campuses.
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).
No.
Peach
NO
Absolutely NO.
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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.
“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?
would now be EMPTY.
This might be a good time.
No
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?
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.
Article title wrongly spelled Fauci as Israel.
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.
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?
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