Is it a Genocide?

[uncle bernard]

Genocide scholars around the world, including those in Israel, have reached a near consensus: Yes.

Israeli Genocide Scholar, Schmuel Lederman, rejected the genocide label last year. Now, he's changed his mind. The evidence is now undeniable. 

https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-is-committing-genocide-in-gaza

Israeli scholar Shmuel Lederman of Open University of Israel "opposed the genocide label" until Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government flouted the International Court of Justice's January 2024 order to prevent genocide by allowing emergency aid into Gaza and halting top officials "incendiary language on Palestinians." Israeli leaders have called Palestinians "human animals" and "Amalek"—an ancient enemy in the Hebrew Bible who Israelites were commanded to exterminate.

Lederman also began to see his government as genocidal after the Israel Defense Forces seized control of the Rafah crossing last year, cutting off the only humanitarian aid route as international experts warned famine was imminent, and as analysts warned the true death toll in Gaza could ultimately be close to 200,000.

"For me personally, the combination of this and the continued destruction of Gaza made the turn from harsh criticism of the crimes Israel is committing in Gaza and warnings that we are getting close to that place, to the perception that the cumulative effect of what Israel is doing in Gaza is genocidal in every sense," said Lederman on the social media platform X on Thursday. "I think the second half of 2024 is the point at which a consensus emerged among genocide researchers (as well as the human rights community) that this was genocide. Those who may have still had doubts—I estimate that they have dissipated following Israel's actions since the cease-fire was broken."

[Scouts Honor]

no mercy for traitors

so i think it is a genocide...but not the way you think 

[1032004]

I’m not sure.  But if it’s not, it’s a hell of a lot closer to a genocide than white farmers in South Africa.

[ionel]

3 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

I’m not sure.  But if it’s not, it’s a hell of a lot closer to a genocide than white farmers in South Africa.

Not sure can argue with that.

[JimmySpeaks]

Oct 7, 2023 was genocide 

[lisa morales]

How did you determine that?  They only killed 1,200.

[JimmySpeaks]

3 minutes ago, lisa morales said:

How did you determine that?  They only killed 1,200.

Only?   Wow.