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It's definitely not "the genocide". I don't think it's even "a genocide". As clarification, this is an example of what I think qualifies as a genocide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide and I am aware that UN has far far less stringent definitions. I don't think we should be watering down serious concepts like UN is doing there.
But yes, that's how I view Israel's justification for the Gaza War. Obviously Russia's justification for invading Ukraine is even more ludicrous than Hamas's justification for terrorizing and invading Israel regurarily, but it's not exactly sane either.
Hamas is obviously the greater evil in about the same way as Nazis were obviously the greater evil in Europe in WW2. Beating them was also extremely harsh for german civilians sometimes. Dresden firebombings killed 25 000 people in a single bombing raid, in a population of about 600 000 people. Relatively speaking about as many deaths in that one day than total in Gaza since October 7 2023.
Was it necessary? I cannot tell definitely, but probably not all of it was and probably most of it was.
You are a horrible human being and I hope hell is real.
There aren't conflicting definitions of what genocide is, where did you pull that "fact" from? Genocide is a systematic killing of people, as per your own link. And that's exactly what Israel is doing. No?
First, I'm just stating facts that you are a horrible person, if you feel insulted it's on you.
Second, I made a very valid argument, but your reading comprehension is really bad. I will repeat it just for you:
There aren't conflicting definitions of what genocide is, where did you pull that "fact" from? Genocide is a systematic killing of people
So can you tell what are those different definitions of genocide that you mentioned??