Greta Thunberg after landing in Paris

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88. Let's talk about yr definition of genocide...

It'll be a one-sided conversation, as I know you can't reply, but I'm more than happy for any of those who gave a rec to yr post to step in.

Tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians being slaughtered by Israel, as well as the clearly genocidal language of the extremists in the Israeli govt, isn't genocide according to you. Yet somehow you can describe the killing of around 1000 people (a mix of Israelis and foreigners) in a single incident as genocide. How does that work? Genocide is a powerful term and there's criteria that must be met. It shits me that some Americans fling it around to score political points. And that imo is what you've fallen victim to. There's absolutely no way you can claim Oct 7 is an act of genocide while in the next breath insist that what's being done to the Palestinian people isn't.

Heres some info on genocide that you and those who recced yr post need to read.

https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/what-was-the-holocaust/what-was-genocide/eight-stages-of-genocide/

I think Israel's conduct is veering close to being genocidal, but right now I think what Israel is committing is ethnic cleansing. It's not like ethnic cleansing didn't happen during the Nakba, and you just have to look at the ongoing dispossession of Palestinians in the West Bank to see it happening in slow motion.

I honestly don't understand why those on the left in the US will excuse abuse and dispossession of any ethnic group when it goes against all leftists stand for. That shit is what the Right thrives on, which is why Trump and his ilk support Israel. I'm so glad my country is finally standing up and putting sanctions on the extremists in the Israeli govt. Of course the Trump administration are having a whinge about it, but our LW govt hopefully doesn't give a shit what those fascist fucks say.