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> This is how you spell 'genocide'. Ok, that's just silly. The legal definition of genocide(1) is actions, like violence, with the specific intent to destroy,
by petertodd 3y ago
> This is how you spell 'genocide'.
Ok, that's just silly. The legal definition of genocide(1) is actions, like violence, with the specific intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. The types of groups that are protected are intentionally limited. There are lots of types of groups that are clearly not protected in the legal definition of genocide.
Hamas are a group of genocidal terrorists who are both a political party - not a protected group - and a military force - also not a protected group. Hamas's founding charter called for the extermination of Jews, a protected religious group. The idea that you can't destroy a group of genocidal terrorists is ludicrous, no different to how we don't call it genocide when criminal gangs get rounded up and arrested regardless of how many gang members are involved.
It wasn't genocide when 5 million German soldiers were killed in WW2. The Nazis aren't a protected group, and it was a good thing that the Nazis were destroyed as a group. Hamas is no different.
1) https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/Genocide%20Convention-FactSheet-ENG.pdf https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/Genocide%...
- matsemann 3y agoWhen you have to resort to semantics and definitions to defend your position, you should realize you're on the wrong side here. I don't care if it's technically genocide or not: Killing civilians and children is inexcusable in my book, no matter what you call it. Don't support Israel's killings of innocents, just because you believe some numbers where a single digit percentage of Palestinians support Hamas...