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Removed for genocide denial.
The UN definition of genocide has 5 points, any ONE of which is enough to call it a genocide.
Israel has hit 5 for 5 in Gaza.
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/pt/ihl-treaties/genocide-conv-1948/article-2?activeTab
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Shocker. Back to your safe space.
It's not any of those five things. It's any of those five things with intent to destroy a peoples.
South Africa is going to have a hard time proving intent at the ICJ when Hamas uses human shields to inflate civilian casualties and 99/100 Palestinians are alive.
Make your delete every post that takes a view of a highly disputed issue that you personally disagree with. The ICJ didn't grant the preliminary injunction. Going to pretend everyone agrees with you? Going to also delete the intelligence and diplomatic corps and most of the heads of state of the western world, as well?
And going to delete Wikipedia for showing pretty much both sides violated the ceasefire? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Gaza_war_ceasefire
Wait, but didn't Bibi and many of his government publicly express intent? Such as when they called all Palestinians animals, called for nuking them, or announced they will be cutting all water and supplies... what about all of that?
Yes, Israel is intending to destroy all the Palestinians:
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/palestine-letter-08oct24/
https://www.jns.org/the-myth-of-gazas-innocent-majority/
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/israel-posts-video-saying-are-no-innocent-civilians-gaza-rcna157111
Yeah why haven't they then I wonder.
How many Palestinians need to die before you discover a pattern?
Oh there's a pattern alright. It leads directly to Hamas and their fucked up ideology.
If that were true, we wouldn't be talking about Israeli snipers killing Palestinian children.
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/1/20/palestinian-child-killed-by-israeli-sniper-despite-ceasefire
Here's a wild idea... Hamas wouldn't be able to recruit if Israel would stop killing innocent civilians.
But then, Israelis don't beliieve there are innocent Palestinians.
https://www.jns.org/the-myth-of-gazas-innocent-majority/
Removed and banned for genocide/war crime denial.
They have been, since the 90s.