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Maximizing the killing of peoples belonging to the victim group is not a criteria of the Genocide under international law. You don’t need to kill as many people

Maximizing the killing of peoples belonging to the victim group is not a criteria of the Genocide under international law. You don’t need to kill as many people as you are capable before the threshold for genocide is met, far from it. Israel targets and kills a lot of people, and so far it has failed to demonstrate how the majority of them pose a threat. A good example is when al-Jazeera journalist Hamza al-Dahdouh was targeted and killed by an Israeli missile. Israel said he and his coworker were terrorists posing a direct threat to nearby soldiers. Evidence however showed that they had been covering a news story nearby and were on their way back, completely contradicting Israel’s claim. In light of the overwhelming evidence against Israel’s initial claim they simply backtracked and said it was an accident. However evidence shows that their car was indeed targeted[1]. Hamza al-Dahdouh is only one of thousands of such cases. The only reasonable explanation is that Israel targets and kills non-combatants on mass scale in an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. 1: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/10/israeli-army-appears-to-change-tack-on-strike-that-killed-gaza-journalists https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/10/israeli-army-appear...

Gibbon1 3y ago
Calling your spotters journalists doesn't provide any legal protection for them.
- runarberg 3y ago
  There is no evidence Hamza al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya were “spotters”. Not even Israel claims they were “spotters”. We have records of their work, and their plan the day they were targeted, we have their employers corroborating that plan, we have visual evidence of their locations and witnesses of what they were doing that day. The evidence they were journalists doing journalism is overwhelming, to a point where Israel doesn’t even deny it anymore. Your post is slanderous and disrespectful.
  - Gibbon1 3y ago
    Well if we're going to do this I'll start by pointing out that people that excuse Hamas's atrocities and crimes not only against Israeli Arabs and Jews but also against the people of Gaza are complicit. This constant encouraging of such things by outsiders such as yourself is why the disaster has been going on for the last 75 years. You keep telling the Palestinian's to keep up the struggle we support you. And it's just misery year after year.
    - racional 3y ago
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  - nolongerthere 3y ago
    So you are right, we have records of all their work... so why would you post falsehoods... Based on their own work they were spying on an IDF encampment in the area, its so sad that you can't even do the barest of research and present obviously misleading information and then have the audacity to accuse someone of being slanderous and disrespectful, you've been slandering Jews all day on multiple threads but get insulted when someone calls a spade a spade. Additionally, every single time so far that Israel was accused of killing a journalist its later come out the "journalist" was working with Hamas, Obviously the Hamas propaganda mouthpiece (AJ) isn't gonna publicize that when they have people like you who will happily swallow every single falsehood they peddle. Please consider getting your facts from this reality and not the false one you invent in your imagination, barring that simply sit down and stop spreading more hate.
    - runarberg 3y ago
      > Based on their own work they were spying on an IDF encampment in the area Where is that work? Where did you read that? I haven’t seen it. I gave you a link to a story by an established media organization which outlines the story includes quotes from interviews, answers to questions, quotes other media organizations (including the NBC). Other media outlets seem to agree with al-Jazeera here. Here is a link from Washington post on the same story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/19/gaza-journalists-killed-israel-al-jazeera-footage/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/19/gaza-journal... Could you extend me the courtesy and provide me with the source of where you got the information that Hamza Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya were spying on the IDF? I don’t even know where to begin looking for where you could read that. The IDF doesn’t even claim they were, instead stating they were shot by mistake (which is it self a questionable claim).
      - nolongerthere 3y ago
        Calling AJ or WP established news organizations is like calling water dry. They're both propaganda arms of the same type of people who have never had a good thing to say about Jews. AJ in particular is literally owned by the very people harboring and funding Hamas. while WP is owned by and run by the same people who chant "from the river..." and talk about the Nakba and the innocent palestinians without any irony. These are people incapable of understanding the actual facts on the ground either because they've been totally brainwashed or like in your case, their jobs prevent them from accepting rational arguments.

Gibbon1 3y ago

Calling your spotters journalists doesn't provide any legal protection for them.

runarberg 3y ago
There is no evidence Hamza al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya were “spotters”. Not even Israel claims they were “spotters”. We have records of their work, and their plan the day they were targeted, we have their employers corroborating that plan, we have visual evidence of their locations and witnesses of what they were doing that day. The evidence they were journalists doing journalism is overwhelming, to a point where Israel doesn’t even deny it anymore. Your post is slanderous and disrespectful.
- Gibbon1 3y ago
  Well if we're going to do this I'll start by pointing out that people that excuse Hamas's atrocities and crimes not only against Israeli Arabs and Jews but also against the people of Gaza are complicit. This constant encouraging of such things by outsiders such as yourself is why the disaster has been going on for the last 75 years. You keep telling the Palestinian's to keep up the struggle we support you. And it's just misery year after year.
  - racional 3y ago
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- nolongerthere 3y ago
  So you are right, we have records of all their work... so why would you post falsehoods... Based on their own work they were spying on an IDF encampment in the area, its so sad that you can't even do the barest of research and present obviously misleading information and then have the audacity to accuse someone of being slanderous and disrespectful, you've been slandering Jews all day on multiple threads but get insulted when someone calls a spade a spade. Additionally, every single time so far that Israel was accused of killing a journalist its later come out the "journalist" was working with Hamas, Obviously the Hamas propaganda mouthpiece (AJ) isn't gonna publicize that when they have people like you who will happily swallow every single falsehood they peddle. Please consider getting your facts from this reality and not the false one you invent in your imagination, barring that simply sit down and stop spreading more hate.
  - runarberg 3y ago
    > Based on their own work they were spying on an IDF encampment in the area Where is that work? Where did you read that? I haven’t seen it. I gave you a link to a story by an established media organization which outlines the story includes quotes from interviews, answers to questions, quotes other media organizations (including the NBC). Other media outlets seem to agree with al-Jazeera here. Here is a link from Washington post on the same story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/19/gaza-journalists-killed-israel-al-jazeera-footage/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/19/gaza-journal... Could you extend me the courtesy and provide me with the source of where you got the information that Hamza Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya were spying on the IDF? I don’t even know where to begin looking for where you could read that. The IDF doesn’t even claim they were, instead stating they were shot by mistake (which is it self a questionable claim).
    - nolongerthere 3y ago
      Calling AJ or WP established news organizations is like calling water dry. They're both propaganda arms of the same type of people who have never had a good thing to say about Jews. AJ in particular is literally owned by the very people harboring and funding Hamas. while WP is owned by and run by the same people who chant "from the river..." and talk about the Nakba and the innocent palestinians without any irony. These are people incapable of understanding the actual facts on the ground either because they've been totally brainwashed or like in your case, their jobs prevent them from accepting rational arguments.