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[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Youre 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?

Benjamin Netanyahu has in recent days called on politicians to choose “their words carefully” so as not to give ammunition ahead of the hearing in The Hague, Vaturi on Wednesday reaffirmed his calls to “wipe Gaza off the face of the earth,” and added: “Gaza must be burned.” “I stand behind my words... It is better to burn down buildings rather than have [Israeli] soldiers harmed. There are no innocents there,” he said in a radio interview before calling for the “elimination” of the estimated 100,000 Palestinians left in northern Gaza. “I have no mercy for those who are still there. We need to eliminate them,” added Vaturi, who belongs to Likud, the right-wing party led by Netanyahu.

[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 0 points 5 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 0 points 5 months ago

What do you call ethnically cleansing and starving an entire population? Is that not genocide?

[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 0 points 5 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 0 points 5 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?

[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

It was literally like 1 day after an invasion. You need to recognize that emotions came to play.

As for your genocide of indigenous Americans, it's a completely different topic. Don't whatabout here please.

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

That's not whataboutism is lol.

He's not defending/minimizing doing something by pointing out the others have also done it.. he's comparing 2 situations, and saying that the definition of genocide is not limited to extinction.

[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

But what about this other thingggggg it's completely relevanttt what about this thing tho it's just like this what about that thing remember that thing? Oh my I know it doesn't really have to do anything to do with this but what about that

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

He said "by your definition this would not be considered one" (which it is).

He's not doing anything related to whataboutism, you clearly don't know what it means. He's presenting an argument for the definition and common usage of the word genocide. Try to follow

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 0 points 5 months ago

if i had a genie my one wish would be to have the word whataboutism stricken from the minds of every single redditor

[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

What about Lemmy users too. Or what about the word redditor? I don't like that word obviously. But really what about the word stricken cuz that triggers me

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 0 points 5 months ago

good news, due to lemmy’s block feature you are now stricken from my notifications 😇

[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I have had you tagged as communist for like 2ish months so I don't really care

[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

I'm not in agreement with that either. I don't agree that native Americans were involved in a genocide. I would imagine most people would agree with that. It's a whatabout to me because it's not even in a similar circumstance. If you look at actual examples of genocide it doesn't look like native America or Gaza.

[-] DouchePalooza@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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!

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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, this is genocide (successful or not and the extent of it is left to be seen).

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