why do ppl keep laying into this shitty reasoning as though it's a slam dunk?
firstly, even if GENOCIDE was the question: according to international law, that point would be moot.
and since the topic is the current ethnic cleansing of gaza, that point is even more moot.
is this an argument in support of war crimes? or what was your point with this? please go slow, apparently i'm not so smart cause i don't get what history has to do with whether or not israel is guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
I do not kniw why anyone else posts very simple facts but I do know that I posted population stats because they prove that claims of Israel committing Genocide against Palestinians is absolute nonsense. Genocide does not produce the literally highest population increases in history. Those simple numbers erase the primary accusation of the Nakhba Narrative.
As for commiting Genocide in the present conflict- my subjective participation in this war aside,,,EVEN IF we accept HAMAS' stats on Gazan deaths...heck, lets double their stats & say that 60,000 Gazans have died...& let us imagine all 60,000 to have been children. There are roughly 1.4 million Gazans under age 18. Do the math: 60,000: 1,400,000+. Either Israel is the most inept actor in history...or else the accusation is Grade A rubbish.
War sucks. Visceral inages of crying and wounded children elicit predictable responses. Arab propagandists and complicit media outlets do what they always do. My saddest memoury of October 7th was arriving in Kibbutz 'Aza & seeing the GoPro footage from a dead Gazan attacker. He raped a Jewish woman in front of her screaming toddler. Then, he literally placed that little crying boy into an oven & literally cooked him to death. I could tell of many, many atrocities but that particular one stays with me in a huge way.
Genocide you say? In my own family, in 1929 twenty-two were murdered in my family home in Hebron. I could tell of my 3-year old uncle Aharon of blessed memoury. They took him by his feet and swung him into a brick wall, leaving him brain dead. I should be thankful because Arabs then sliced off his genitals. He died less than a week later at Strauss Clinic in Jerusalem. 19 years before Israel even existed Arabs tried to slaughter every Jew in Hebron. Then, before that, the same transpired in 1923, 1920, 1911, 1890, 1834, 1800, 1799, so on & so forth. THESE were acts of genocide.
You speak of Ethnically Cleansing Gaza? AGAIN, do the math. In reality, HAMAS says, 30,000 odd Gazans are dead, out of almost 2.4 million all told. But, as for Ethnic Cleansing, 109 Gazans voluntarily left Gaza with foreign passports. 109: 2,400,000. The accusation is a joke.
Accusing me of arguing in favour of War Crimes is beyond bizzare. I simply demolished claims of Genocide perpetuated by Israel made by you. The IDF operates under more media outlets than any other military in the world. Where are the War Crimes?
