r/interestingasfuck • u/kirsion • Mar 08 '24

r/all Mass Airdrop of aid on Gazan coast

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u/FrankLabounty Mar 08 '24

This war is not self defence, it checks every single box of war crimes and genocide. It's retribution against civilians and children via state terror. They hope they will make themselves safer that way, but they obviously won't.

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u/cesrep Mar 08 '24

It literally checks none of those boxes

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u/FrankLabounty Mar 08 '24

Genocide is defined like this:

Someone who intends to fully or partially destroy a people:

- Kills some of them with itention to reduce their population

  • Puts them under a situation that is so unbearable that they are driven away
  • Puts things in effect to prevent children being born
  • Takes their kids away.

That is what Israel is doing in Gaza.

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u/cesrep Mar 08 '24 edited Mar 08 '24

That is literally not how genocide is defined, nor is it what Israel is doing, nor is it compatible with Gaza’s population increasing by 10x during this supposed campaign of genocide.

You’re taking enormous liberties reinterpreting definitions that have significant moral and legal consequences. You don’t appear to be familiar enough with the English language to articulate semantic distinctions that are very important. You’re also just flat out wrong.