[laurels-marts]

I don’t get the genocide argument. Israel has complete air superiority, if genocide was the goal they could have leveled Gaza in the first day. Casualties would have been at least over 1 million not 30k. And they wouldn’t go door-to-door, drop flyers and knock-bombs (again why bother if genocide is the intent). The fact that the causality count is as low as it is considering they are fighting a genocidal terrorist organization that’s honeycombed itself in heavily populated civilian centers is already an achievement.

[meiraleal]

Why would a genocide be their intention?

But it can be the consequence, because they don't care. Then they argue that it isn't a genocide but who are they to decide? The culprit can't decide.

[worried4future]

Because genocide definitionally requires intent.

> Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part..

Wikipedia

[meiraleal]

> Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part

That's exactly what Israel is doing from the POV of the whole world but they disagree.

[edanm]

That's not the pov of the whole world. It's actually contrary to the views of all the major Democratic countries like the us, UK and France.

The countries that claim Israel is committing genocide are mostly authoritarian countries.

[meiraleal]

That's the POV of most human beings, authoritarian technocrats ruling the West are the few exceptions.

[woooooo]

Debate over word definition semantics is badly missing the point given how many innocent people are being killed.

I'd pedantically classify this as "not genocide" based on my understanding of the word but it's still 100x as bad as, say, Srebenica.