Randahl FinkThe killing of large groups of civilians expecting to get food is the new gassing of large groups of civilians expecting to get a bath.
Benjamin Netanyahu is leading the genocide.
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Well said. Couldn’t agree more.
Well said. Couldn’t agree more.
Anders Bering Bøgh@randahl Why not use established nomenclature - "Endlösung"?
Donald RoyNot quite #genocide yet!
A closer analogy might be with the 1941 decision to shoot entire populations as part of 'anti-partisan operations' in #belarus and elsewhere - the alleged presence of a suspect being enough to justify indiscriminate slaughter. This was not quite yet a policy of explicit extermination - as was practiced by #imperialgermany against the #herero in what is now #namibia in the 1900s - in response to a rebellion - which like most such - had included atrocities.
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫@djr2024 @randahl
Killing or displacing a set of civilians identified by ethnicity is the process of genocide. There isn't a point in the process where "it's finally genocide enough to count", morally speaking.
Senior members of the Israeli government have been making explicit statements of genocidal intent, even referencing the Holocaust as a model to follow, and snipers are shooting children. It's genocide. It couldn't be any more genocide than that.
As with most other things an element of perspective and proportionality has to apply in practice. Hence cautious wording.
The purpose of caution is to prevent harm. Governments are legally obligated to take action once they acknowledge that a process of mass killing and displacement is a genocide. Allowing them to delay this determination causes rather than prevents harm, so I don't see it as cautious.
It's not like genocide is a rare and special crime humans hardly ever do, that we mustn't cry wolf about. It happens a lot. Unwillingness to name it is *counted on* by its perpetrators each time.
This should not be taken to mean there is not a risk of #genocide taking place in the immediate future. It is thus entirely appropriate for cases to have been brought to the #InternationalCriminalCourt and the #internationalcourtofjustice
relating to actions and statements which could escalate into #genocide and entirely inappropriate that individuals and/or states be penalised or sanctioned for having done so.
@djr2024 I disagree based on the fact that members of Netanyahu's own government explicitly have stated that the purpose is genocide.
Read a few speeches by Yoav Gallant, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Israel Katz.
There are reasons both Yoav Gallant and Netanyahu himself are wanted by the ICC in The Hague. And I predict they are only the first of many.
South Africa built a pretty strong case.
I cannot disagree with you but am unable to agree either because it might put my fifty year membership of the #LaɓourParty in jeopardy by precipitating my suspension on charges of #antisémitism !
Little Art Histories@randahl It was obvious for years that Netanjahu and his party are extremely right-wing and that they destroyed democracy in Israel. It is beyond me why the world was watching this shit show for years and years and still keep telling everyone that Israel is a democracy and our ally. It is like in the 1930s Germany: Everybody knew, nobody saw anything. Now Israels mask has come off but it is still the no-see-no-know-no-care approach of the western world. It is shameful!
Sassinake! - ⊃∪∩⪽it's like humans always need to watch some scapegoat burn. It's religious.
'Better them than us'
@art_histories it is the same reason we see European leaders sucking up to Trump:
The US is the strongest military power, and Israel is its sword in The Middle East.
Alexander Goeres 𒀯@Little Art Histories It is beyond me why the world was watching this shit so please enlighten your readers: what is it the world could have been doing after netanjahu had been elected?
Josh@jabgoe2089 @art_histories Well they could (we could) all have stopped selling arms and supporting their clearly harmful goals.
@jabgoe2089 They could have impose sanctions. Publicly condemn the direction the israeli gouvernment was heading. Stop trade. Use diplomatic means whatever they can be. Freeze accounts. And so on. The least they could have done is to not ignore the provocations. We have seen this shit in Germany and it is frustrating that it repeats itself over and over. And yes, it's not only people who look away and remain silent. It's whole governments. For the sake of the economy. It's shameful and racist.
FurballsNHairballs@randahl
Got that right.
Line them up for food packages, then mow em down.
Netanyahu would fit in well at any WW2 German death camp. As the executioner,not the victim.
Got that right.
Line them up for food packages, then mow em down.
Netanyahu would fit in well at any WW2 German death camp. As the executioner,not the victim.
aided by the USA and a few others, I'm sure.
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