Stuart Rothgiesser

Proudly Jewish / Husband / Father. Tweets my own.

[Stuart Rothgiesser @stuartroth]

@RediTlhabi “These people”? Your language betrays your prejudice , again and again

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@ultras_antifaa Rubbish! Standing with Hamas is standing with genocide ! Israel has withdrawn from Gaza and given land back. Hamas wants “from the river to the Mediterranean Sea”. Who lives there ? The real genocide is from Islamists and you’re too naive too busy virtue signaling to see it

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@ultras_antifaa https://t.co/qY3eaXyI2N

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

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

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@TomLondon6 @jwomencount2 This is ridiculous and I do not think you’re Jewish, not with a name like London. All Jews support Israel, our only homeland , a tiny sliver of land in the middle of enemies . And Israel supports Jews all over the world

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@RediTlhabi As usual, your bias is unlimited: Russia and Iran and Hamas and China and and and [insert many other countries] control the media and make threats … yet you only focus on Israel! To think you were once a journalist!

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@ShareenSingh8 Perfect for the Islamist terrorist organisations you support to enter the COJ try and gain a stronger foothold through public sector work as done in other African states

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@ArtVanderl82697 @RediTlhabi 100%

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@RediTlhabi Yes - and you do NOT talk about any other issues. You do not talk about the genocide Hamas has for Israelis, you do not talk about what Russia is doing in Ukraine or what Boko Haram is doing in Nigeria. Senzeni na, @RediTlhabi? What have we Jews done to deserve your hatred?

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@ItsFalla33 @theMadridZone @HandofArsenal You sound like a bitter Manure supporter

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@BoyGeorge Thank you for the support , from a 55-year-old Jewish man who used to have your poster in my wall as a teen!! Never knew why you were my hero till now

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@RediTlhabi Who is “they”, @Redi? Jewish South Africans ? Of course we had no problem calling out human rights abuses. We’re moral, ethic people! We share your liberal values !A people can be moral and fight for their survival fight evil at the same time .

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@TweeterReynolds @BoyGeorge Try the real terrorists - Hamas and the state of Iran. Virtue signaling is not the same as being honest. Just like the English appeasing the Nazis don’t work, so too appeasing Islamisism will come back to haunt you.

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@ISephara Virtue signaling at its best

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@AnaKasparian So stupid . You’re blaming Israel for something that’s happened far away? There is no connection.

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@ShareenSingh8 First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out…

Pastor Martin Niemöller

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@umyaznemo I’d rather hand out with the Israelis any day. What’s a srupid video - you’re making totally unrelated comparisons .

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@RediTlhabi Israel has no interest in our tiny country . We are such a small player in the world stage . Now if you had said Iran or China….

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@meganshead It can’t , because it’s from the same xenophobia and racism

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@LCabonena So go march against the government.
No, you’d rather pick in the most vulnerable. Everyone knows that the problem is not foreigners - the problem is people like yourself who destabilize the country and don’t contribute anything economically or intellectually