At this point if you still claim Israel is committing genocide in Gaza you are either stupid and ignorant or antisemitic.
The antisemitic version usually means applying a double standard on the definition of genocide and the laws of war just to delegitimize Israel’s existence or right to pursue legitimate goals in a war it did not start or/and dehumanize every IDF soldier as a monster.
I have tried to argue basic definitions. Genocide requires intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such, in whole or in part. The evidence does not show that intent toward the people in Gaza. What it shows is the opposite. Israel has taken extraordinary steps, often at real cost and risk, to prevent civilian harm while fighting an enemy that hides among them, uses hospitals and schools as bases, and treats its own people as props in an evil grand political strategy of martyrdom to eliminate all jews on the planet.
In the middle of the fighting Israel has let in huge amounts of food, hundreds of thousands of tons, sometimes more than the world food specialists said was needed. Water lines from Israel have stayed open, three of them supplying tens of thousands of cubic meters a day. They have coordinated repairs, kept desalination plants running by sending fuel and even electricity to key ones, and allowed generators so water systems, hospitals and bakeries can keep working. Medical supplies and equipment have poured in by the tens of thousands of tons. Field hospitals coordinated. Patients have been evacuated for treatment outside. When polio showed up for the first time in decades Israel halted fighting every day and worked with WHO and UNICEF on a mass vaccination campaigns. Over a million doses given. That is not how you try to wipe out a people.
Then look at the misinformation machine. Almost every big claim about Israel deliberately targeting journalists or medical staff or children falls apart, and a lot of the time it falls apart because of what Hamas itself admits, sometimes before anyone even finishes basic fact checking. The “journalists” killed for example. Plenty of the names on those lists later show up in Hamas or Islamic Jihad martyr posts as actual operatives or commanders. Dual roles are common in Gaza’s information space. Same with medical workers. People mourned as nurses or doctors get claimed later by the terror groups as fighters. Hospitals have been used as command centers and weapons storage over and over. Hamas officials have even said it out loud at times. Manuals found on how to use the hospitals as Hamas military sites.
The casualty numbers and the “they are targeting children” stories. The Hamas health ministry figures get treated like gospel, yet their own underlying data and later admissions undercut every trending statistic. Combatants get left out or reclassified. Claims of IDF snipers or drones hunting kids usually fail basic reality of sci-fi sniper drones that don’t exist or injury patterns coming out of the same hospitals.
These stories do not need years of investigation to collapse. Often Hamas’s own words or the available evidence do the job within days or weeks. But the first maximalist version is what spreads and sticks and then gets used to accuse the whole country of Israel and its army of genocidal intent.
It is not illegal or wrong to target and destroy your enemy in a war, especially one that started with a massacre, held hostages, and fights from inside the civilian population it claims to protect. Gaza is an awful war with awful conditions, conditions shaped heavily by Hamas’s tactics. That does not make it genocide. The aid that kept flowing, the vaccination campaigns, the water and power facilitation, and the way the propaganda claims kept falling apart all point the other direction. If you ignore all of that and still yell genocide the explanations left are ignorance or a double standard aimed only at Israel. But this entire stupid campaign every war in history is a genocide.
If you actually want to engage in the debate of "intent" or actions in Gaza, see earlier writings:
"I’m a War Scholar. There Is No Genocide in Gaza," https://t.co/G7Iy9Ki3g5
"Israel Is Not Committing Genocide: Exposing the Distortion of Law and Truth," with @Ostrov_A
https://t.co/0RWFtOUd8H
"Israel's Aid to Gaza Is Historically Unprecedented," https://t.co/QMLuWDGDDs
Trump sends a letter to Morocco's king: US joins Israel in recognizing Morocco's control over Western Sahara.
Spain supports Palestine. Morocco sends migrants. US-Israel reward Morocco with Western Sahara recognition
Make no mistake-this was backed by Israel and the US. Spain was being punished for its stance on Palestine
@dannydanon I am from Ceuta, and Spain has never oppressed us. You genocidal maniacs do not get to weaponise our identity or speak on our fucking behalf. Shut the fuck up.
@BoyGeorge You do realize that conflating Judaism and Israel is antisemitic, right? That aside, you're a genocidal, washed-up as been. Have some shame!
Here is the question that European civilization has never answered:
At what point, in the five hundred years of colonial practice, should a European person have been expected to know that what was happening was wrong?
Not 1945. That is too easy, and too convenient.
1904, when the German Empire issued a written extermination order against the Herero people and generals carried it out and soldiers followed orders and administrators recorded the deaths and the skulls were shipped to universities for racial science.
At that point, should someone have known?
1890, when the systematic amputations in the Congo were being photographed by missionaries and the photographs were being published in European newspapers and reformers were raising the alarm and Leopold II was receiving those reformers in his palace and explaining that the civilizing mission required certain difficult measures.
At that point?
1830, when the Trail of Tears was a policy debated in the United States Congress and approved by elected representatives and challenged by lawyers and litigated to the Supreme Court, which ruled against it, and then carried out anyway.
At that point?
1619?
1492?
The question matters because the defense of European civilization against the charge that the Holocaust was colonialism coming home always rests on the assumption that colonial violence was invisible, unexamined, a product of its time.
It was not invisible.
It was photographed and debated and reported and litigated.
It was chosen.
At every decision point, by specific people with names and offices and moral agency, the choice was made to continue.
The Holocaust produced Nuremberg because the victims were European and the defendants were the enemies of the victorious powers.
The colonial period produced nothing comparable because the victims were not European and the defendants were the victorious powers.
That is the only reason one has a trial and the other has a museum of natural history.
Same civilization.
Same logic.
Different documentation.
Let me say this very directly.
Football does not belong to investors. It belongs to the people who fill the stands and who stand on the touchline week in, week out, rain or shine.
The World Cup is not a product. It is the greatest competition in world sport, and it was never anyone's to sell. Dress the deal up however you like. Once you have sold a piece of it, you have sold out.
Football belongs to the fans. It always has, and it always will.
الراجل ده ظاهرة غريبة
ضارب بكل أخلاقيات المجتمع عرض الحائط لابس حلق عامل تاتوهات مبيظهرش غير وفي إيده الخمرة وحواليه دستة بنات صاحب ممثلة قبل كدة ومتجوزهاش ضارب واحد باقلم عشان طلب يتصور معاه وحارب ضحيته في المحاكم عشان ميديلوش ٢٠٠ جنيه تعويض، حتى شيرين رضا طليقته قالت من سنتين في برنامج إنه خانها مع صاحبتها، منتجه محسن جابر قالك كنت معاه بيعمل عملية بعدها بيومين وقع مع روتانا واتفاجئت إنه بيوقع في التلفزيون زيي زي الناس وأخر موقف أهه لما باع تامر حسين صاحب أغنية أتأخر عتابنا عشان تركي مع ذلك محدش فكر يكانسله رغم ان اي فنان غيره هيعمل حاجة واحدة من اللي بيعملها الناس هتدفنه حي مع ذلك عمرو دياب لسى الناس بتحبه وتتهافت عليه، غريب بجد الراجل بيعمل كل الموبقات وشخصية من أسفل ما يمكن ولسى رقم ١