Context https://lemmy.world/comment/14641595
Anyone, who doesn’t tread the „destroy Israel“ party line gets banned from [email protected]
Edit: although people here hate Israel and different opinions with a passion, nobody could cite the actual rule I broke.
YDI.
It’s genocide by any other definition. You can split hairs all you want and call it “crimes against humanity” or whatever, but it’s a distinction without much difference when we’re talking about targeted missile strikes upon schools, hospitals, and apartment buildings. Pedantry isn’t going to convey some nuance that people are missing, and the mods were right to put a stop to it.
If making targeted strikes against specific structures is grounds for calling it a genocide then what does launching 10,000 unguided rockets randomly into who-knows-what in a single day count as?
I hold the incredibly unpopular opinion that both sides have been absolutely terrible for a long time so don’t come at me for picking a side. I am genuinely curious if you consider both of those acts of aggression as a genocide or not based on your own listed definition.
There were no targeted strikes. Biden told Israel to stop carpet bombing Gaza and Netanyahu’s defense was that he was doing a Dresden.
There were no 10.000 rockets in a single day. It was like 2200 and most of them were simple distraction rockets.
My apologies. It was ~10,000 rockets including October 7th and up until now.
However on October 7th specifically there are several reports putting the number around ~5,000 in a single day. All fired indiscriminately into primarily civilian areas.
Yes they were “distraction” rockets to overwhelm the iron dome, but most of those continued into strike again civilians primarily.
So if it’s a genocide when Israel is firing rockets into Gaza then why is it not a genocide when you reverse the roles?
Logically they would either both considered attempted genocide or neither of them would be considered genocide.
This is how resistance from a concentration camp works. Hamas took great care to avoid child casualties. Israel takes great care to create child casualties.
“Hamas took great care to avoid child casualties”
https://www.barrons.com/news/how-many-children-were-killed-in-hamas-s-october-7-attack-9c1d8239
They shot one baby in the head along with their father inside of a bomb shelter.
They burned another baby and two other kids along with their parents.
They killed another 35 minors on October 7th alone.
And before you even try to claim that news source is biased they are independently reviewed to be a “center” news source.
I can openly admit that Israel has killed who even knows how many kids in Gaza since October 7th.
The only difference is I find both sides here to be sick and evil. You seem to think only one side of this conflict has done anything wrong.
Israel is confirmed to have killed at least 6 of the children you are mentioning so half your comment is discarded. The burnt children you are mentioning were confirmed killed by IDF tank fire.
Your dramatization of a baby being shot while held by an IDF militant is not relevant either.
Nonetheless even counting all the minors as killed by Hamas, it would constitute as 3% of the total Israeli deaths on 7 october.
The children killed by Israel in Gaza constitute more than 40% of the total deaths.
These numbers alone very clearly show who is targeting children and who is not.
This is not taking into account Israel on average killed more children in Gaza every single day than the total amount killed on 7 october.
To you his might not matter. Words, especially legal terms under international law have actual definitions.
If it doesn’t make a difference why ban people?
Because you’re playing pedant with people’s lives to stroke your own ego and/or prove that you’re the smartest one in the room. Meanwhile, people make those same arguments to try to discredit anyone who says the IDF and Netanyahu are killing civilians on purpose, that they’re killing women and children with abandon, that they’re committing war crimes like they’re going for the high score.
Perhaps you don’t have malicious intent, but you should at least recognize that you sound like someone with an agenda and haven’t conveyed a take that they haven’t all made themselves before.
In short, you sound like a shill for war crimes, whether you mean to or not, and you should reflect on why you feel it’s important to quibble about the difference between “crimes against humanity” and “genocide.” This is not an international courtroom.