• Yantantethera@feddit.uk
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    16 hours ago

    When does one start counting the deaths of a genocide? Do we wait until the last member of a group of people has been killed?

    Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages

    genocide noun

    the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

    Looks like exactly what is happening.

    • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world
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      No it’s not because the “Palestinians” are not a people. It’s an invented term to give them, collectively, an identity. They’re all just people whose families remained after Israel was formed.

      Are you aware of the geography of the region? Arab Muslims have the entire Middle East pretty much; yet they can’t rest until they also get to have 100% of this little country the size of Vermont? The Jewish people were nearly wiped out in the Holocaust - that was an attempted genocide and they slaughtered 6 million. And so Israel was made so the Jewish people could always have a safe haven. And yet after being under constant attack from every which way ever since, when they decide to take serious action to put an end to decades of terrorists murdering them…. it’s genocide?

      Please stop drinking the ultra liberal kool aide because you’re being lied to. And this is coming from a Democrat myself. Everyone seems to just forget every act of mass slaughter the Arabs commit on Israel, and they weep for these poor people oh boohoo. I’m well aware there are civilian casualties and that’s awful - even though these are the same civilians who danced in the streets and celebrated when the World Trade Center was destroyed in a terrorist attack murder on 9/11.

      Jeez it sometimes just mystifies me how so many people can be so abjectly idiotic because they are just plain cowards or have been thoroughly brainwashed.

      Your view is the wrong side my friend. You really don’t know what you’re talking about. Most likely not your fault though.