sycasey said:
CaliforniaEternal said:
There's a way to criticize the Israeli government without your standard line of accusing any war act as genocide.
Nah, I resisted calling it genocide for a while, but continued events plus statements from the Israeli government have made clear that they intend to remove all Palestinians from Gaza, which is an ethnic cleansing and when combined with the continued violence, genocide.
So no, it's not my "standard line." The facts drove me to that conclusion, as they also apparently did for Mr. Saul, formerly a strong supporter of Israel.
Also, if you think I haven't been strongly against what Russia is doing in Ukraine, you've not been paying attention.
One of the basic attributes of antisemitism is double standards for Jews and Israel. This was one of Natan Sharansky's observations. You have to be careful with making a major accusation like genocide because the information sources from Gaza are run by the Hamas death cult, who put out nothing but lies and kill their own people in unlimited numbers to maintain their power and then go blaming Israel. Do you honestly think in a few years time the majority of the Arabs will be gone from Gaza? That seems to be totally unlikely unless some country voluntarily takes them in, which has an almost zero chance of happening.
So if you're make an accusation of genocide based on the current situation, that would mean every urban war in history should be called a genocide, which it's not. Unfortunately, in every modern war in the past 150 years civilians have suffered high casualties and it's certainly unfortunate for innocent civilians that have died in Gaza.
But something doesn't smell right when so many people come out of the woodwork accusing Israel of genocide when their stated goal is to defeat a murderous terrorist organization.
If Hamas surrenders their weapons, the war will be over. More likely Israel will find diminishing returns and stop the war while leaving Hamas with some weaponry intact, which will lead to essentially the same Islamist regime as before. I wonder if the population of Gaza increases from before 2023 to 2030 if people will retract their accusations of genocide? Most certainly not, it's just going to be an ongoing accusation against Israel no matter what it does. A double standard as always.