Even if "genocide" is an overstatement, that doesn't make it right. That doesn't make individual actions less than murder. That doesn't make the overall polic

Even if "genocide" is an overstatement, that doesn't make it right. That doesn't make individual actions less than murder. That doesn't make the overall policy less than oppression that is killing many people. This isn't a total either-or. It can be "not genocide" and still be wrong. Now, if you want to make the argument that Hamas has put Israel in the position that they have to totally destroy Hamas, and Hamas has entwined itself among the civilian infrastructure to the point that massive civilian casualties are the only possible outcome, that might be a defensible argument. "Not actually a genocide", while technically correct, isn't going fly very well.