• dragontamer@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Israel can do terrible things without it being a genocide.

    The USA’s bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were terrible things. But they were not genocidal.

    You’re the one fixated on calling it a genocide. I’m more than happy to say that Israel’s settlers in the West Bank are assholes or that the Bibi government is full of right-wing power mongers or whatever. But genocide is a completely different word yo and shouldn’t be used so wantonly.

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      11 months ago

      Israel can do terrible things without it being a genocide.

      but it is a genocide, so this is moot.

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      11 months ago

      USA’s bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

      so WWII analogies are fine, but only wehn you use them to excuse genocide.

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        11 months ago

        Apparently you like WW2, so I’m trying to work with you here. The millions of people the USA killed in Japan do not constitute a genocide. And Japan agrees with us. War is war. A genocide is a well defined thing. A systematic erasure of a culture, a people. The closest thing to a genocide in Israel right now is West Bank IMO, with the settler issue which is causing displacements and whatever. But that’s not the Gaza situation you’re talking about.

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          11 months ago

          War is war.

          but what’s happening in gaza is not a war because gaza is a ghetto inside israel. it’s a genocide.