They are 2 million in gaza. Hamas (oh so trustworthy source…) says Israel killed over 30000 thousand. That’s 1.5%. Palestinians are near extinction I tell you!
Comment on Germans: what genocide?
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 2 months agoYoure gonna have to be a bit more specific in your defense. They have been killing all Palestinians, have been saying that all Palestinians are Hamas (including kids), and have said multiple times they want to wipe them off the face of the earth.
How is that not genocide?
DouchePalooza@lemmy.world 2 months ago
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s about the intent
the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group
That’s still a large number of people, and we don’t have to wait until it’s a significant percentage of them to call it a genocide. Make up your own word if you mean something else.
PatFussy@lemm.ee 2 months ago
If there was an intent to destroy Gaza and all it’s inhabitants Israel would have done so already. I probably need to see more justification than some emotional outburst a few days after getting terror attacked and israeli citizens kidnapped.
Your arguments are weak. Yes there is a sad situation where a lot of Palestinians are dying but it’s not a genocide.
blitzkrieg@lemm.ee 2 months ago
What do you call ethnically cleansing and starving an entire population? Is that not genocide?
PatFussy@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I think Lemmy likes perpetuating a particular propaganda that keeps reiterating the same talking points until they are engraved in your brain. Genocide is an extremely specific judgement that requires both evidence of specific intent and specific action. You can make claims to one but not to both. The intent doesn’t match the action.
zazo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So saying “wipe Gaza off the face of the Earth” followed by almost continuous bombardment isn’t in your eyes evidence of specific intent and action, because they haven’t wiped them out yet? Therefore, by your own definition, the colonizing Europeans never commited genocide against the indigenous American population, because there’s still native Americans left and they have their own nature reserves to reside in?
blitzkrieg@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Again, what so you call ethnically cleansing and starving an entire population?