why this GENOCIDE is being ignored by most of the media. It's taken getting to this place--where the very journalists are facing starvation --for this horror to gain minimal attention.

Everything is not genocide. I will stick with the UN definition of genocide.

You are using a universal claim:

It is the negation of the universal claim "Everything is genocide".

You must know something they don't.

BTW there is only one universally accepted definition of genocide, codified in the Genocide Convention.

“Just give us food.. I don’t want anything else”

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It was not spoiled.

Why? Why? Why?

Then what is?

I told you what I definition of genocide that I respect. And where are you getting this "extermination" of two million people? I do remember something about the extermination of six million people. I don't like anti-Semitism, whether it is here on DU or anywhere else.

Go back and review how the Gaza war began. If people at a peaceful music festival had not been massacred, if hostages had not been taken, then no Gazans would have lost their lives. You are on ignore, so don't bother to reply.

to label as genocide what is happening to Gaza. JFC!

n/t

What a horrific command. We shall not oblige your inhuman demand.

Lovely.

You never did respond to me about the genocide scholars, using the same definition of genocide that you say you "respect", are calling it a genocide.

Is there something you know that they don't?

the assertion that Israel doesn't have the right to kill as many people as they want.

But the Old Testament beliefs of the Jewish faith say, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." The scales of justice have tipped, heavily, weighed down by the lives of other innocents. There is no excuse for exterminating starving people, with gunfire, who are trying to access aid stations because they are dying from hunger and thirst.

How does this end?.

including children. They are building an internment camp at Rafah that will hold all 2 million and never allow them to leave. The former PM of Israel Olmert calls it a "concentration camp" designed for "ethnic cleansing." Pretending Oct 7 was the beginning of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict requires willful ignorance. Moreover, Israel is not targeting Hamas. Starvation and concentration camps target civilians, not terrorists. Israel's stated goal is to rid the region of every last Palestinian. The only possible way that anyone wouldn't see this as a genocide is if they don't believe Palestinians are human. What is happening in Gaza is human rights atrocity of historic dimension.

'The only possible way that anyone wouldn't see this as a genocide is if they don't believe Palestinians are human.'

Dehumanisation is one of the ten stages of genocide. Members of the Israeli govt have regularly referred to Palestinians as vermin etc. And many supporters of just about everything Israel does deny the existence of Palestinians as a group of people with their own culture and right to self-determination. Air quotes around the word 'Palestinian' is a sign of the denial, and unfortunately happens even here at DU. That exchange might give you some background into what you've read in this thread. The dehumanising of Palestinians also comes across in the tendency to talk about them only as numbers, and then to laser focus in on arguing the accuracy of numbers, and not treat them as individuals. The same people will make a point of putting faces to names of Israelis, and when on rare occassions a killing of a Palestinian is so horrific that it breaks through to the international media, like the murder of Hind Rajab, defenders of Israel quickly swing into action labelling it a hoax and blood libel.

I'm always up for a respectful back and forth with people who disagree with me on genocide unless they're fascists, Nazis or is clearly armed with very little knowledge of genocide and the I/P conflict and have zero interest in learning anything that might conflict with their views. The third is the reason I won't waste my time engaging this time round.

Wish you well, and some light.

Bye now.

There is little doubt that Israel’s actions are sufficient to meet the requirements for genocidal conduct. More than 57,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Hamas’s attack of 7 October 2023. A November 2024 study found that nearly 70% of those killed at the time had been women and children, and clearly many male victims were not combatants either. The number of civilians killed thus far exceeds the 8,000 killed by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica in 1995, which an international tribunal found to constitute genocide.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/24/israel-genocide-gaza

No matter what you call it.

But it is most certainly a war crime.

Drop it.

Also, language is constantly evolving. What Israel is doing is genocide.

We are not talking about language here. Everyone does not get their own definition of genocide. Everyone does not get their own version of truth. You don't agree with what I said. So let it go and back off.

But I know what you're saying.

The parallels between the Israeli's Gaza 2025 and the Nazi's Warsaw Ghetto 1943 should not be ignored.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto

Since 1939, only two countries have done the following to the population of an occupied country that are in their power:

1. Isolate them in a walled and ruined urban ghetto
2. Systematically restrict food and necessities so that the people slowly starve
3. Systematically murder them

The first country was Nazi Germany which is universally condemned.

The second country is Israel, which is getting away with it, with the support of the U.S. government and others.

You're right there are some striking parallels.

Sad. Sad. Sad.

➡️Note: I am not antisemitic and I have always supported Israel’s right to exist. I wish peace for all people in the MidEast. I respect all faiths and spiritual beliefs.

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We in the USA are complicit to the mass starvation and forced relocation of Palestinians.

I see no end to this cruelty. Because The people in power are controlled by money.