I wish critics of Israel would shut up about "civilians". Because "wipe out Hamas" is itself a genocidal goal, or at the very least, the war crime of "extermination". Self defense is allowed, but that doesn't mean killing every human being in the group. Self defense means using minimum force to prevent or repel an attack, warfare means using force to achieve some other goal, but when the goal itself is to kill every member of a group as such, that's extermination, and when they are a subset of a larger vilified ethnic or religious group, that's "destroy a group, in whole of in part".

https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-784759

cc @kmpiw @kmpiw

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