It shouldn't be.

But here we have UN and other twisting it to fit a situation that clearly weren't meant to be covered by it.

Because if the war in Gaza can be called a genocide so can almost every single other major war!

Also it is absolutely ridiculous to call a war that is started by one side, and one that only that side can end, a genocide against the same side that started it!

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Manuel_D an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This is indeed a big obstacle to credibly calling the Israel-Palestine conflict a genocide. Germany lost ~10% of it's population in WW2. France lost 4% in WW1. Less than 1% of the Palestinian has been killed since Oct 7.

Heck, the US Revolutionary war saw the British perpetrated genocide against the Colonists if the military actions following Oct 7 count as a genocide.

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komali2 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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skinkestek 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you honestly think it is correct to use the same word that we use for the 500 000 innocents that were clubbed to death in Rwanda?

The boys that were transported by buses into the woods of Srebrenica and gunned down?

The millions that starved to death in Ukraine during Holodomor?

to use the same word for a war, ome that they can end tomorrow just by uttering a credible claim about wanting to release the hostages?

Because if Gaza is a genocide, then we must also talk about the genocide of the Germans in 1944 and 1945. But for some reason we don't call it a genocide when somebody forces someone else to stop them.

Except when that someone else is Israel.

This fits a broader pattern BTW:

Hamas executes possible the worst sexual terrorism since the rape of Nanking in 1937: not a word about war crimes.

Israel hit a legitimate target hidden in civilian hotspot: waRcRiem!

Surrounding countries have various apartheid laws: nothing to see.

Israel being a democracy where every citizen can vote, be in the government, be a judge in the Supreme Court: apArthEid!

When will people stop and look at the evidence?

	▲	ascorbic 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Hamas executes possible the worst sexual terrorism since the rape of Nanking in 1937: not a word about war crimes. What are you talking about? The ICC issued an arrest warrant for war crimes for the Hamas leadership