it’s not controversial, what is controversial is what is being defined as genocide. Classic mischaracterization.
Now i’m not going to get into the immediate debate about whether or not this is an active genocide or not, because frankly, not my fucking problem.
what i will get into is the commonly accepted definition of genocide, which is in past tense. It’s also commonly used to specifically denote a certain ethnicity, which considering that israel is indiscriminately bombing, i’m not sure how much that applies. I feel like considering palestinian an ethnicity would be like considering a US state to be an ethnicity as well. Though i’m sure there is historical merit to that statement, the complexities of it are not something i’m intimately familiar with so i won’t say much on it.
Regardless, I think palestine is realistically entitled to it’s own nation, i see no reason for it not to be. Israel, arguably is also entitled to it’s own nation, i see no reason for it not to be either.
It’d be cool if israel and hamas stopped committing war crimes, but considering that this is a war in the middle east, i don’t know when that will happen.
the quality or fact of belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.
so technically this more closely matches the definition of ethnic, rather than ethnicity, but ethnicity is just the specific designation of an ethnic group, so meh.
from my understanding around the local area to Palestine and Israel, is that Palestine (and Israel as well) are more legally and specifically defined, than ethnically defined. You could argue that Palestinian would be an ethnicity, but like i said, is the entire state of Wyoming also an ethnicity? Indiana locals are Hoosiers, yet they don’t ascribe to a certain ethnicity. Like i said i just don’t know enough about the local area to be able to classify it more properly.
In fact, the basic internet resources seem to affirm this, googling Palestine brings up two primary results (for me at least) Palestine: the geographical area (unrelated to ethnicity) and the state of Palestine: the country (presumably also unrelated to ethnicity)
“Half of the Palestinian population are diaspora and refugees.” also pulled from the same resource, uses Palestinian to refer to the people who “are a member of Palestine” rather than an ethnicity. Historically this is what ethnicity means, but i don’t believe that Palestine, over the last 50 years of it’s literally global timeline, has remained to be Palestinian, i’m almost certain it’s floated away over time, as things tend to do in systems of entropy.
this is from wikipedia, so not a guaranteed source of truth but it seems that Palestine is Arab, which would make Palestine ethnically Arab, ignoring the minority communities. From what i can tell, and from what i expect, Palestine seems to be a cultural melting pot of sorts, so i’m really not sure the term genocide applies here at all.
The mental fucking gymnastics you genocides defenders come up with.
it’s really not, is an individual state in the US considered to be it’s own ethnicity? Genuine question.
We live in a global, interconnected society. Yes, it is your fucking problem, no matter how indirectly.
and yet, i only speak English, how many languages do you speak? I only live in the US, where do you live? I only have experience with western US society because i haven’t been anywhere else. Where have you been?
With all due sincerity, i do not fucking know shit out most of the world outside of the US, it’s literally not my place to make governmental decisions for the UK, or Ireland for example. Do i want Israel and Palestine to be at war? No, same as i don’t want Ukraine and Russia to be at war, am i going to tell them what to do? No, it’s not my fucking land, and it’s not my fucking government. This is literally not my problem to answer.
The western society, the US in particular has issues with over projecting power and influence into eastern society and expecting it to work, it doesn’t time after time. Why are we expecting this to be any different?
genocides defenders
also to be clear, you are quite literally pulling this out of your ass, because i’m not even sure this would be classified as a genocide, it might be. And here you are arguing that i am quite literally defending it, even though the only thing i contest is what these actions are constituted as. Whether or not i think it’s genocide or not doesn’t magically make all the people dying go away. You’re the one doing that conflation here, not me.
also, cool reference to the nazis, once Israel turns to Egypt and starts bombing them indiscriminately or something, i’ll believe you.
You genocide defending fucks make me sick to my stomach.
“More legally and specifically” as if “ethnicity” isn’t well defined in international law. gtfo noob.
it’s really not, is an individual state in the US considered to be it’s own ethnicity? Genuine question.
Does the state share cultural and historical background with the rest of the NATION-STATE they belong to? Yes. They do. They share a cultural and historical background.
am i going to tell them what to do? No, it’s not my fucking land, and it’s not my fucking government. This is literally not my problem to answer.
So if you lived a hundred years ago, you would say that the Nazis aren’t on “your land” and thus “literally not your problem to answer”?
We live in an global interconnected world and you bet your goddamn stinky arse that it’s also your problem, no matter how indirectly. The war in Ukraine isn’t your land, thus “literally not your problem”, right?
Russia’s war in Ukraine has caused significant disruption to global wheat markets. Wheat prices are estimated to increase by around 2% globally.
And that’s a very simple example (for what I assume is a very simple person), but people could list literally thousands of ways how this is your problem as well.
because i’m not even sure this would be classified as a genocide, it might be.
The motherfucking INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT has said there are “reasonable grounds” for a genocide, and their standard of proof is a bit higher than some random asshole online who admits they don’t know anything about anything that’s outside of America.
In the South Africa v. Israel Order, the Court was unable to draw on reports from UN human rights investigative bodies for its factual assessment, as none exist yet. However, for potential incitement to genocide and possible genocidal intent, it referred directly to statements made by Israeli President Herzog, Defence Minister Gallant, and (then) Energy Minister Katz. Furthermore, the Court took into account statements by UN bodies (such as OCHA, WHO, CERD), high-ranking UN officials (like the Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Commissioner-General of UNRWA), and UN experts. Overall, plausibility emerges as a notably flexible standard, contingent upon the specific rights, claims, and factual circumstances presented before the Court.
The ICJ’s determination that there are plausible violations of the Genocide Convention in Gaza could therefore carry weight in the ICC’s assessment whether reasonable grounds exist to believe that a crime within its jurisdiction has occurred. Although mere plausibility of the criminal acts may seem too low a standard to accuse an individual of grave crimes, it is important to recall that proceedings under Article 58 of the Rome Statute represent an initial phase. Only at the trial stage does the Prosecutor need to establish that a crime within the Court’s jurisdiction has occurred.
It beggars belief that people like you exist; saying that what is very clearly an intentional genocide isn’t one and that no-one should do anyone about it. Do you have no fucking morals? Were you just brainwashed so horribly on your Birthright?
If this were real life, you wouldn’t even dare to say aloud that “why would it even be considered a genocide”, because you’d be so ashamed because everyone would look at you like the drooling moron you are.
You genocide defending fucks make me sick to my stomach.
if this is what does you in, you won’t have a very good time on this little thing here called the internet, again, you keep saying shit i don’t say. Stop putting words in my mouth.
“More legally and specifically” as if “ethnicity” isn’t well defined in international law. gtfo noob.
alright then big man, link me to the resources that define these things.
Does the state share cultural and historical background with the rest of the NATION-STATE they belong to? Yes. They do. They share a cultural and historical background.
most of palestine is partially arab, therefore, palestine is arab in ethnicity. There are a few religious minorities, but that’s typical, though i’m not familiar with most middle eastern states so i wouldn’t know if any of those are illegal elsewhere.
Also if this is such a hard concept for you to grasp, i will simply point you to asian, european, slavic, african, all of these are arguably ethnicities, though broadly defined, as there are usually more specific subsets for these. Palestinian is arguably a subset of these more broadly defined groups (though i left out the middle east)
The reason that the holocaust was considered genocide was because it was literally targeting jews, for no reason other than cleansing them. (also it had a kill count in the millions) If genocide is considered to be killing people of an ethnic group, than would you classify the US bombing of japan during ww2 to be an ethnic cleansing? because as far as i can tell, that would not be what that is considered, even remotely. Even though we literally bombed hundreds of thousands of japanese people over the course of the war. Presumably genocide has to be defined by a percentage of the total population, given a motivation to “cleanse” said population, the boulder shooting for example would that count as a genocide? What about the florida church shooting?
in fact, according to the genocide convention it’s an extremely broad definition, including almost nothing specifically, other than the fact that it must be “… any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:” it doesn’t specify military operations, and i am almost sure there are exceptions to this clause in the definition of military operations, because this is law we’re talking about. In fact, this is also so incredibly broad, that the only way it could reasonably be defined, is in a court of law, specifically an international one, only then would we be able to determine what the answer is here.
So if you lived a hundred years ago, you would say that the Nazis aren’t on “your land” and thus “literally not your problem to answer”?
you forget that this is basically what the US did up until germany threatened attack on the US. The nazis were also operating differently, unlike israel, who is actively engaged in war, germany sort of just, walked up to people, waved, said hello, and then invaded them and overthrew their governments within about a week or two. (highly verbatim, don’t take this literally, since you probably know fuck all about ww2 lol)
Nazi germany was also literally a fascist dictatorship, israel is quite literally a democratic country. These are quite literally two incomparable situations.
We live in an global interconnected world and you bet your goddamn stinky arse that it’s also your problem, no matter how indirectly. The war in Ukraine isn’t your land, thus “literally not your problem”, right?
the war in ukraine literally isn’t my problem, i have no control over it, i have no authority over anything related to it, the best i can do is vote. That’s it. Does it affect me? Yes, so do tornados, and hurricanes, and floods, and fires, are those my problem? No, i literally can’t do anything about them. I just have to live with them.
And that’s a very simple example (for what I assume is a very simple person), but people could list literally thousands of ways how this is your problem as well.
yeah and the OPEC founding caused the energy crisis of the 70’s. I’m almost certain i could list more ways that the ukraine russia war effects the global economy, i’ve been around the topic extensively and i am rather familiar with the effects of trade on a globalized economy. My point here is that i did not create OPEC, i literally have no control over what russia decides to do, it doesn’t fucking matter what i think.
did you just link the ongoing court case? I’m not up to speed on it as i don’t turbo nerd follow every global political event unfortunately, i have to spend time playing factorio and shit, i’m a person after all. So i’m not sure if this has had a legal conclusion (though i would have almost certainly heard about it) This is literally the equivalent of me suing you for “raping me” that doesn’t mean that you raped me, or that i lied, it just means that it has to go through court, it has to be tried, and it has to be ruled on, to some degree. To my knowledge, none of that has happened yet considering what most of those links appear to be are “motions filing for the convention of genocide”
The motherfucking INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT has said there are “reasonable grounds” for a genocide, and their standard of proof is a bit higher than some random asshole online who admits they don’t know anything about anything that’s outside of America.
and i don’t disagree? My problem here is that there is no “proven genocide” it’s “reasonable grounds for genocide” those are two very different things. And yes, the standard of proof IS higher than my dumbass self saying shit on the internet, you’ll notice i have literally NEVER said that this is or isn’t a genocide, i’ve just said that i’m not sure what this would be classified as, because this is a rather unusual proceeding in modern politics.
also here’s a little fun fact if you’re linking israeli officials that go against netanyahu. Have you ever considered that they may be doing it as an act of political posturing to gain support from opponents of netanyahu? If i were a political figure in israel that was opposed to him, i would absolutely be doing the same thing.
“plausible violations of the Genocide Convention in Gaza”
plausible does not mean confirmed, it just means likely possible. Not that it even happened, but that there’s a likely chance that it could’ve happened Plausible is barely any more sound than 'maybe" or “possible” or “technically a possibility”
saying that what is very clearly an intentional genocide isn’t one and that no-one should do anyone about it.
wow… you are, uh, very bad at reading comprehension, like really bad. Are you chatGPT by chance? Llama model? What flavor of generative AI are we speaking here?
“isn’t one” Show me one message where i have explicitly said “israel is not committing genocide against palestine” Across my ENTIRE account history, please, show me one.
“no-one should do anyone about it” this one isn’t quite true, it’s more a mischaracterization than anything. What i’m saying is that we you and me, have almost nothing that we can do, other than say “hey i don’t like this, don’t do that shit.” but that’s about the extent of it, our elected officials can do more, and doing this “genocide denial” shit, doesn’t fucking help. Because at the end of the day nobody fucking cares whether it’s genocide or not they want the war to stop
Do you have no fucking morals?
i do have morals, they’re just rather minimal, and weirdly enough, don’t include the very specific designation of “ISRAEL BAD PALESTINE GOOD” anywhere in there, it does have shit like “war crimes bad” “war not good” “crime bad” “don’t murder” though.
Were you just brainwashed so horribly on your Birthright?
homie you are the one putting words into my mouth here. Please, if you’re going to accuse a degenerate furry of being “brainwashed” at least be clever about it.
If this were real life, you wouldn’t even dare to say aloud that “why would it even be considered a genocide”, because you’d be so ashamed because everyone would look at you like the drooling moron you are.
this literally is real life, and i’m right here, and you’re right there, unless you’re chatgpt. Why would i be ashamed? This is a very standard practice in the field of philosophy, especially sociology. Clinical analysis of these types of situations is the only thing that provides meaningful results. Also cool adhom, should i call you retarded now? Is that how this works? I would rather not though, because that’s extremely rude.
again, i think you need to actually read what it says, because it’s pretty explicit about what it says, and what it says is that “it is possible that genocide has been committed in gaza by israel.” If it said anything else, there would be an arrest warrant out for netanyahu, most of the upper political government, as well as most military leaders, and perpetrators of the “genocide” weirdly, there seems to be a distinct lack of any of this happening, and i’m not sure why, it’s almost as if nobody really knows what the status of what is currently happening is.
Like I said, people like you make me sick to my fucking stomach.
alright then big man, link me to the resources that define these things.
So… either you’re completely incapable of using Google, or you’re arguing in bad faith, because you just don’t even want to try and look up the definition. I can’t know for certain, perhaps you’re just so stupid you literally have never used Google?
Also if this is such a hard concept for you to grasp, i will simply point you to asian, european, slavic, african, all of these are arguably ethnicities, though broadly defined, as there are usually more specific subsets for these. Palestinian is arguably a subset of these more broadly defined groups (though i left out the middle east)
Your childish word-salad is making me laugh out-loud. You don’t even get a “good try”. Sorry boy-o.
So you deny the Genocide in Gaza?
No need to equivocate like that, your stance is clear.
You need to read it more clearly. Your grasp of language is horrible. You don’t understand the differences between terms like state, ethnicity, nation, nation-state, and refuse to even read about them, the PROUDLY IGNORANT American you are. It’s not my fault that you can’t even grasp your native language on a level that you’d be able to have this conversation.
You don’t understand what it takes for the ICJ and the ICC to admit that there is a case here. They do not admit to genocide lightly, and the trial is still open.
A majority of countries have decided that yes, it is indeed a genocide and yes, Israel is criminal scum and only a tiny minority of countries (like the US) deny the genocide.
There are THOUSANDS of experts on international law who don’t hesitate a second to call it what it is; GENOCIDE
But you stand on the side of the Nazis. Fucking disgusting.
this literally is real life, and i’m right here, and you’re right there
Alright, come have an actual voice chat and webcam with me which I will record it and post it here. With your own name, of course, as this is real life we’re talking about.
But you won’t do that, because you’re a scared little kid who has been brainwashed and is unable to question said propaganda, which is why you push it despite not really believing in it, which is why you have to argue in bad faith, which is why you pretend Lemmy is "real life"* and which is why you pretend you don’t know how to Google and which is why you equivocate two pages of utter gibberish.
So, you would outright deny that there is a genocide in Gaza, is that right?
You’ll equivocate a bit more while denying the genocide and avoiding showing your face, just like the sick nazi fucks perpetuating it.
Like I said, people like you make me sick to my fucking stomach.
reading the english language makes me nauseous, oh woe is me my head hurts now.
Your childish word-salad is making me laugh out-loud. You don’t even get a “good try”. Sorry boy-o.
damn, the words, what do they mean. A question for the future times i suppose.
So you deny the Genocide in Gaza?
I’m not saying anything in specific with regards to the israel palestine situation other than the fact that “shit’s fucked” right now. Could there be a genocide? I suppose so. I would need more definite proof before coming to that determination. You keep pretending like not having a binary answer going one way or the other is literally impossible. It might be if you have the collective reasoning and critical thinking skills of a toddler, unfortunately, i have been blessed with the mental faculties, of a grown adult human. and therefore i have to contend with the realities of the world, because they are simply a thing that exist.
No need to equivocate like that, your stance is clear.
what the fuck do you mean? I have explicitly stated what my stance on this is, multiple times, it’s the same everytime, if you think it’s any different that’s a problem with your comprehension. You have probably gaslit yourself into thinking that i have an opinion on something, that i genuinely do not have an opinion on other than “idk war bad” I would go into it with more depth but clearly that would confuse you, since you seem to lack the capability of interpreting a non binary answer.
You need to read it more clearly. Your grasp of language is horrible. You don’t understand the differences between terms like state, ethnicity, nation, nation-state
perhaps, one could argue that i was making a point about the intricacies in small things making determination of larger concepts a much harder process. Seems like you have that part ironed out, though it seems you’re more set on yelling at me and calling me a “genocide defending fuckhead”
You don’t understand what it takes for the ICJ and the ICC to admit that there is a case here. They do not admit to genocide lightly, and the trial is still open.
yeah i don’t, and you probably don’t either, what i do understand is how the court works. Once there is a set ruled verdict on this case, it will be a settled matter, and i will not have to expend energy on it, as it will be decided in the global court of law as it should be not on the internet, by angry people who may or may not even be real.
WHO is arguing that there ISN’T a genocide?
oh i don’t know, let’s see here, a significant portion of the media, a good chunk of israel, a good chunk of the israeli population, probably a pretty big segment of the jewish population as well. Idk man, seems like quite a few people here to me.
A majority of countries have decided that yes, it is indeed a genocide and yes, Israel is criminal scum and only a tiny minority of countries (like the US) deny the genocide.
There is no decision here, unless we are talking about the court case, and if we’re talking about the court case, then no, there is no decision because it has not run its due course yet. This is the entire point of the case. You don’t build a global legal system intending to prevent things like genocide, and then ONLY use it when there is 100% provable, for certain genocide going on. Because then it would, ironically, miss genocide. The whole point of it is to be a check and balance on the various members of the international community hopefully ensuring that something like ww2 never has to happen again.
These countries might publicly report that they believe this, but this is also just that they believe it, and i would presume it’s probably “we believe that israel might be perpetrating genocide” rather than the aforementioned 100% affirmative, you seem to continually and regularly use.
There are THOUSANDS of experts on international law who don’t hesitate a second to call it what it is; GENOCIDE
oh cool, so you probably have a document included the signed, consented opinion of thousands of international law experts saying verbatim “i believe that israel has 100% committed genocide” that isn’t just going to be a 300 hundred page document about the potentiality that israel has committed genocide? I find it curious that you don’t link anything the first time around, seems like you’re here to yell at people first and provide sources later, seems rather irresponsible to me.
But you stand on the side of the Nazis. Fucking disgusting.
i literally don’t, and you can’t prove otherwise, and you haven’t proven otherwise. Try harder kiddo.
Alright, come have an actual voice chat and webcam with me which I will record it and post it here. With your own name, of course, as this is real life we’re talking about.
you are literally asking me to doxx myself, very cool. Super cool, perchance can i have your full legal name? Also why would i? Doxx me and come say hi :)
But you won’t do that, because you’re a scared little kid who has been brainwashed and is unable to question said propaganda, which is why you push it despite not really believing in it, which is why you have to argue in bad faith, which is why you pretend Lemmy is “real life”* and which is why you pretend you don’t know how to Google and which is why you equivocate two pages of utter gibberish.
just for the record here, i’m not going to do it because i have nothing i want to say to you. Nor do i care enough about this ordeal to deal with someone on a level like this. But yeah no i guess the “nuance” propaganda has really gotten into my brain and it has really affected me now. It’s affected me so deeply that i’ve completely broken down my entire life view, and rebuilt it from the ground up, just so i could have a view on life that wasn’t defined by any existing structure or ideology in particular. I guess that propaganda has really worked it’s way in huh? The years of isolation in pursuit of meaning have culminated in the end result of nothing after this long period of time. (i also do not have a webcam, so)
You’re sitting here pretending that discord is real life, why are you accosting me for saying that lemmy is real life (ignoring the fact that this is a blatant mischaracterization) lemmy would be considered to be an extension of life, arguably, an extension of the socialization of life specifically. Since most people don’t use lemmy much outside of socializing. But that’s clearly too much of an abstract concept for you.
also i don’t think you understand what the definition of equivocation is, you’re the one equivocating my statements lol. Equivocal just means that something is “not clearly defined/stated” an equivocation is using that specific mechanism to work around a certain thing, most commonly a question. If you were to ask me a question, to which i was to respond with something that isn’t an answer, that would be an equivocation. I however, am responding with an answer. It’s very clear.
Also i like the little extra asterisk after the quoted italics section, very cute, i can see you were rather angry when typing that section out.
So, you would outright deny that there is a genocide in Gaza, is that right?
to rephrase this a little bit, since you’re very clearly loading the statements here. Just because i feel a little bit generous.
“so, would you consider what israel is doing in gaza, to be equivalent to a genocide?”
my short answer would be “no, because i do not have a clear understanding of the situation to a point where i can make a reasonably informed decision on the matter.”
My long answer, would be: Given the historical contexts of what is currently going on in israel/palestine at the given moment, it is extremely difficult to give a concise answer to the question, adding all of the propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation out there on the internet, from both sides (we know this part from the ukraine, russia war, it’s very apparent) that there is almost no reputable source of information regarding any one topic on the matter, as it differs from person to person. Combined with the given definition of genocide being a particular action, and this being a very definite war. It’s hard to delineate between where war stops, and genocide ends. When we include middle eastern culture into this it only gets less defined.
In short, i have no reasonable way, manner, or method, to make a well informed opinion of the events taking place, including my understood lack of knowledge on the topic, such that i wouldn’t be disseminating some form of misinformation, or disinformation, which is not something i wish to do. Combine that with the general stance i have on providing other people free will, and not trying to influence people in any particular manner, it would not benefit me in any manner either. The best i can do is to coalesce my known information into one place, and collect my thoughts in a manner that allows me to best express my understanding of the situation, in hopes that it gives other people insight into what’s going on, on some rudimentary level, while on top of that, instilling in them a healthy dose of nuance.
although i’m sure nothing i could say would satiate your desires for conflict.
avoiding showing your face
oh please, show me your face! I’m sure it’s pretty. Or will you not, because you don’t stand for your own morals? I will continue to not, because my morals are simply different from yours, and that’s ok. That makes me no less of a person than you, just anonymous. As i prefer to be on the internet, presumably, like you currently are, and will continue to be, because you have no interest in revealing your identity to me as it could bring unforeseen consequences. Which, is fine. Though hypocritical given your previous statements. Perhaps you could even do some equivocation of your own there?
And how exactly did you get “I hate reading” from “I hate genocidal fucks like you”?
No need to equivocate like that, your stance is clear.
What the fuck do you mean? I have explicitly stated what my stance on this is, multiple times, it’s the same everytime, if you think it’s any different that’s a problem with your comprehension.
Weirdly you keep avoiding actually mentioning any, just going on with vague “both sides” bullshit and “not enough evidence” patheticism.
Since it clearly missed you; DO YOU THINK THERE’S A GENOCIDE GOING ON IN GAZA?
Do you think Israelis are at an equal risk of being the victims of genocide as Palestinians are?
ANSWER CLEARLY; since I’m clearly incapable of perceiving anything other. (Or you just equivocate because you know what is the right side of history but you don’t actually want to go against your brainwashing of DO NOT CRITICISE ISRAEL DO NOT CRITICISE ISRAEL.)
perhaps, one could argue that i was making a point about the intricacies in small things making determination of larger concepts a much harder process
You didn’t read it, got it. You skimmed and concluded “there’s no sentence” and thought that’s it. That’s exactly my point about the way you “argue.”
just for the record here, i’m not going to do it
Yes, I knew you wouldn’t, because you don’t have the spine to stand behind this garbage with your own name, face or even voice. Probably because it’s high and crackling. You can’t put your money where your mouth is, because you don’t believe or even understand what you’re pushing.
it is extremely difficult to give a concise answer to the question, adding all of the propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation out there on the internet, from both sides
No, it isn’t, unless you’re pushing Israeli propaganda.
Again. Literally the vast fucking majority of the world agree it’s a genocide.
Algeria[179]
Bangladesh[4]
Bolivia[180]
Brazil[181][182][183]
Chile[184]
China[185]
Colombia[181][186]
Comoros[187]
Cuba[188]
Djibouti[187]
Egypt[189][190]
Indonesia[191]
Iran[192]
Iraq[191]
Ireland[193]
Jordan[194]
Lebanon[195]
Libya[196]
Malaysia[197]
Maldives[198]
Mexico[199]
Namibia[4]
Nicaragua[4][200]
Pakistan[201]
Palestine[4]
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic[202]
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[203]
Slovenia[204][205]
Spain[206][207]
Syria[208]
Turkey[197]
Venezuela[4]
Zimbabwe[209][210]
African Union[211][212]
Arab League[213]
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation[214]
Non-Aligned Movement
Some more alliances, less stately:
Al-Haq[277]
Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights[277]
Amnesty International[278]
Boycott from Within[274][276][279]
CodePink[280][272][273]
De-Colonizer[281][274][276]
Democratic Socialists of America[274]
Human Rights Watch[27][282][4]
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network[274]
International Peoples' Assembly[131]
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions[274][276][283]
Israelis Against Apartheid[274][276][284][285]
Jewish Voice for Peace[274]
La Via Campesina[131]
National Lawyers Guild[272]
Nelson Mandela Foundation[286]
New Zealand Labour Party[287][288]
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights[277]
Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions[131]
Palestinian NGO Network[131]
Progressive International[280][272][273]
RootsAction[280][272][273]
People's Forum[280][272][273]
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom[289]
World Beyond War[280][272][273]
World March of Women[131]
These are just the ones officially supporting South-Africa’s ICC case. Not every country which condemns Israel.
At Emergency Special Session, General Assembly Overwhelmingly Backs Membership of Palestine to United Nations, Urges Security Council Support Bid
The Assembly adopted the resolution titled “Admission of new Members to the United Nations” (document A/ES-10/L.30/Rev.1) by a recorded vote of 143 in favour to 9 against (Argentina, Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, United States)
You know why a majority is for giving Palestine official UN status and Israel and other pussy-states are against it? Because as soon as it goes through, it’s much simpler to show that the legal definition of a genocide (which you tried looking up on fucking wikipedia :DDD, here have an actual document lol.
Here’s the Israeli Defence Minister directly announcing that they are fighting “HUMAN ANIMALS”. (Perhaps google the word “dehumanisation”.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbPdR3E4hCk (edit forgot to add this link)
In short, i have no reasonable way, manner, or method, to make a well informed opinion of the events taking place
Yeah, because you’re **PURPOSEFULLY IGNORING ALL THE INTERNATIONAL LAW EXPERTS AND GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS LOUDLY CRYING GENOCIDE, GENOCIDE GENOCIDE."
You’re like a Flat Earther insisting he’s using objective science. You’re like a scientologists, denouncing psychiatry. You’re like a transphobe screaming “there are only two genders.” ALL the fucking experts disagree with you, but you’re not man enough to admit when you’re wrong, or even man enough to understand you should stop shaming yourself online.
Ah, there’s nothing I can do to fix a sick puppy like you, so I don’t know why I’m wasting my time on a propaganda-troll. You will never admit Israel is raping and pillaging Palestinians, and it’s disgusting and it should make you really, really fucking concerned about your own psyche that you have this sickly desire to acquiesce to shit you know isn’t real.
But I guess those UN offices are just “anti-semites looking to genocide Israel”, huh?
For the record, I love reading. It’s just that you’re not producing text. You’re producing gibberish you think is convincing rhetoric. It’s sort of like watching a five-year old play kitchen. You have absolutely no idea of the words you use and your rhetoric is elementary.
You ignore the evidence , then you equivocate and move the goalposts.
You ignore the fact that ICJ and ICC courts take a significant amount of time. If you were right now being held for trial for allegedly having raped 800 children and there were hundreds of hours of filmed evidence of you doing it, do you think it’d mean you’re innocent because you’ve not yet got a guilty verdict?
You’re despicable. And it shows from you getting so utterly pissed when I sussed out so easily that you’re probably part of this group and of Jewish American descent, went to your birthright (because you couldn’t afford a holiday anytime else) and got brainwashed so bad that now you’re getting literally cross-brained trying to not to admit what the scum of Israel are doing.
Why do you ignore all the evidence?
I read all your childish garbage utterings. None of them have a lick of an argument behind them. It’s like piss-poor rhetoric from a malnourished Soviet official who started vodka on an empty stomach; zero literacy and stumbling all over in a panic because they know they’re in trouble.
And how exactly did you get “I hate reading” from “I hate genocidal fucks like you”?
i’m mocking you for saying the same thing repeatedly, it’s fucking cringe bro. We get it, you cannot stomach the thought that sometimes people disagree with you.
Weirdly you keep avoiding actually mentioning any, just going on with vague “both sides” bullshit and “not enough evidence” patheticism.
ironically, i do answer it, you just keep ignoring it, for some reason, i’ve given a very clear answer.
Do you think Israelis are at an equal risk of being the victims of genocide as Palestinians are?
oh good, a good question, i actually really like this question.
To answer your question, if we’re talking from a military power standpoint, israelis have a significantly less risk of “being genocided” as opposed to “palestinians” though this is within the context of this war specifically. The reason why is because israel is a massive military state, (they own f35s btw, they’re basically a US proxy with how much military power they have) Palestine on the other hand, gets weapon shipments from iran, as per usual. I believe there are also a few other imports they have, but they’re the usual primary suspects, from my understanding though it’s primarily iran using it as an excuse to proxy war.
Looking at a state size and population metric, it’s hard to argue against the claim as well, there are simply more people in israel.
If we’re arguing outside the context of the war, from the perspective of the middle east? I don’t know, depends on how well relations between israel, and the rest of the middle east are i suppose. Palestine would be basically the rest of the middle east, aside from the fact that it borders israel (again, we’re ignoring everything else, this is a purely geographic/demographic based analysis)
Wow! Look at that, when you ask good questions, it’s almost like it’s possible to receive good answers!
ANSWER CLEARLY; since I’m clearly incapable of perceiving anything other. (Or you just equivocate because you know what is the right side of history but you don’t actually want to go against your brainwashing of DO NOT CRITICISE ISRAEL DO NOT CRITICISE ISRAEL.)
since you seem to think i cannot criticize israel at all, it is clearly impossible for me to do so. Even though i have said NOTHING about israel, i will now go on to criticize israel and their wartime efforts.
Let’s see, notably in the public eye, the civilian causalities have been rather high. But then again, russia has also lost 300,000 troops in combat, granted not civilian, they’re mostly conscripts and draft picks. (a significant portion of which have been ethnic minorities living in russia, so if we’re talking about genocide, arguably russia has been technically been doing a genocide, just very quietly) Perhaps that should make you sick to your stomach as well. Ukraine has also suffered losses, but they have also evacuated millions of people, to my knowledge. So most of which would’ve been people who didn’t evacuate (likely by choice) or soldiers.
The public eye is rather boring though, so let’s go a little bit deeper, israels control over gaza over the last period of however long it’s been going on for is rather concerning. There’s very little freedom living in gaza, but then again, hamas did decide to war against israel, so how much of that is really “israel bad” and how much of that is “hamas bad” is a question left up to interpretation i suppose. These kinds of thing when in war are so inconsequential it’s not even worth considering though.
Israel absolutely has all kinds of propaganda, i’m not versed on what is confirmed propaganda, but i’ve heard a lot of stuff is, and a lot of stuff isn’t though i’m almost certain that some of it is.
Public PR wise, netanyahu is terrible. Unless you’re jewish probably. He seems like a goofy guy, seems to be stuck in an awkward spot where most of his government isn’t supporting him, except for the far right, so he seems to be leaning on them in order to stay in power. The public in israel doesn’t seem to be happy with what he’s doing.
Long term, israel doesn’t seem to have a plan, they seem to either war constantly, or not. They don’t seem to have any sort of long term solution at all. Which is obviously, not helpful at all. They really seem content to just, keep warring. When they do stop warring, they seem to cause problems. Often times shit happens that really shouldn’t (arguably hamas is one)
You didn’t read it, got it. You skimmed and concluded “there’s no sentence” and thought that’s it. That’s exactly my point about the way you “argue.”
nah i just don’t remember what i typed because it’s been like three fucking days and i’m not scrolling up to make a coherent point about some shit i’m clearly philosophically babbling about.
No, it isn’t, unless you’re pushing Israeli propaganda.
yes it is? It’s literally war? Go find ANY open source intelligence community working on military stuff, anywhere, and please tell me how confident they are in what they find, and what they predict. You’ll find that they aren’t confident at all, and in fact just propose ideas. It’s really quite boring, but i find it rather interesting.
Again. Literally the vast fucking majority of the world agree it’s a genocide.
again, i think this is a slight mischaracterization. This is a list of countries around the world who support south africas legal inquiry to whether or not this is considered to be genocide. Meaning that they would like for a just answer to the question at hand.
“The president expressed his support for South Africa’s initiative to call on the International Court of Justice to order Israel to immediately cease all acts and measures that may constitute genocide”
Hey look at that! it’s a quote directly from the segment you quote from on wikipedia! It says EXACTLY what i said it would probably say, isn’t that weird? It’s almost like i know some things.
it’s much simpler to show that the legal definition of a genocide (which you tried looking up on fucking wikipedia :DDD
woah, look at that, an actual legal definition, you could’ve just linked that in the first post, or comment, i don’t remember how this thread started anymore and we wouldn’t be here!
Regardless i still have some issue with the definition as stated, because it has no (at least none that i can find) stipulations for anything regarding an actual war, because it turns out, most wars would arguably be defined as genocide under that definition. The USSR against Afhgan war? Genocide. WW1? Genocide. Numerous genocides infact! Japanese sino war? Also probably genocide! Japanese russo war? Also probably genocide! The mexican american war? Also, still probably genocide.
anyway, enough contextual meandering, that’s not the point, i’m just making a point here.
Yeah, because you’re **PURPOSEFULLY IGNORING ALL THE INTERNATIONAL LAW EXPERTS AND GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS LOUDLY CRYING GENOCIDE, GENOCIDE GENOCIDE."
little fun fact for you, human rights orgs are primarily opposed to this, because it’s a fucking war. Nobody likes war. Also just because someone is an expert doesn’t mean you should listen to them, and or fully believe them. here’s a little tidbit of information for you. Most of these experts particularly the law experts, are probably rather infamiliar with local cultural customs and differences between the east and the west, which is almost certainly an influencing factor for this war. A lot of them are likely getting lots of air time. (which also means money) and the media loves money! We know this.
Also, they’re loudly crying genocide. Nobody wants to fucking listen to anybody doing that. It’s literally the boy who cried wolf. If it’s actually a genocide, the currently ongoing court case slated to determine this question, will fucking tell us. As for now, how do we talk about this? Simple, don’t call it a genocide, because we don’t fucking know. You wanna talk about war crimes? That’s great, i’ll listen, there’s something actually tangible there. You wanna talk about human rights? That’s another big thing, that’s a tangible thing.
Stating that this is genocide is like me stating that the world is going to end october 22 2042. It doesn’t matter to you whether i’m factually right about it, maybe i’m fucking god for all you know. There’s nothing of tangible substance there. You can’t do anything with that. Therefore, you don’t care.
Here’s the Israeli Defence Minister directly announcing that they are fighting “HUMAN ANIMALS”. (Perhaps google the word “dehumanisation”.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbPdR3E4hCk (edit forgot to add this link)
hey look, a good argument against israel, sure is weird how when you bring up tangible things, stuff starts to become a lot more reasonable doesn’t it?
You’re like a Flat Earther insisting he’s using objective science. You’re like a scientologists, denouncing psychiatry. You’re like a transphobe screaming “there are only two genders.” ALL the fucking experts disagree with you, but you’re not man enough to admit when you’re wrong, or even man enough to understand you should stop shaming yourself online.
i could say the exact same thing to you, and it would be equally as valid. This is a bad argument. I won’t entertain it.
“NO WAY OF KNOWING :///////”"
you link things that do not claim there is an active genocide (in the headline at least) and the one that does, is lying.
Ah, there’s nothing I can do to fix a sick puppy like you
i appreciate that you picked up the furry lore. :)
You will never admit Israel is raping and pillaging Palestinians
they might be, idk, russia might have been doing the same thing in ukraine, wars fucked bro. You see that video from wagner of the POW being sledehammered?
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it’s not controversial, what is controversial is what is being defined as genocide. Classic mischaracterization.
Now i’m not going to get into the immediate debate about whether or not this is an active genocide or not, because frankly, not my fucking problem.
what i will get into is the commonly accepted definition of genocide, which is in past tense. It’s also commonly used to specifically denote a certain ethnicity, which considering that israel is indiscriminately bombing, i’m not sure how much that applies. I feel like considering palestinian an ethnicity would be like considering a US state to be an ethnicity as well. Though i’m sure there is historical merit to that statement, the complexities of it are not something i’m intimately familiar with so i won’t say much on it.
Regardless, I think palestine is realistically entitled to it’s own nation, i see no reason for it not to be. Israel, arguably is also entitled to it’s own nation, i see no reason for it not to be either.
It’d be cool if israel and hamas stopped committing war crimes, but considering that this is a war in the middle east, i don’t know when that will happen.
ethnicity
¦the quality or fact of belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.
Of course it’s an ethnicity. The mental fucking gymnastics you genocides defenders come up with.
We live in a global, interconnected society. Yes, it is your fucking problem, no matter how indirectly.
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
so technically this more closely matches the definition of ethnic, rather than ethnicity, but ethnicity is just the specific designation of an ethnic group, so meh.
from my understanding around the local area to Palestine and Israel, is that Palestine (and Israel as well) are more legally and specifically defined, than ethnically defined. You could argue that Palestinian would be an ethnicity, but like i said, is the entire state of Wyoming also an ethnicity? Indiana locals are Hoosiers, yet they don’t ascribe to a certain ethnicity. Like i said i just don’t know enough about the local area to be able to classify it more properly.
In fact, the basic internet resources seem to affirm this, googling Palestine brings up two primary results (for me at least) Palestine: the geographical area (unrelated to ethnicity) and the state of Palestine: the country (presumably also unrelated to ethnicity)
“Half of the Palestinian population are diaspora and refugees.” also pulled from the same resource, uses Palestinian to refer to the people who “are a member of Palestine” rather than an ethnicity. Historically this is what ethnicity means, but i don’t believe that Palestine, over the last 50 years of it’s literally global timeline, has remained to be Palestinian, i’m almost certain it’s floated away over time, as things tend to do in systems of entropy.
this is from wikipedia, so not a guaranteed source of truth but it seems that Palestine is Arab, which would make Palestine ethnically Arab, ignoring the minority communities. From what i can tell, and from what i expect, Palestine seems to be a cultural melting pot of sorts, so i’m really not sure the term genocide applies here at all.
it’s really not, is an individual state in the US considered to be it’s own ethnicity? Genuine question.
and yet, i only speak English, how many languages do you speak? I only live in the US, where do you live? I only have experience with western US society because i haven’t been anywhere else. Where have you been?
With all due sincerity, i do not fucking know shit out most of the world outside of the US, it’s literally not my place to make governmental decisions for the UK, or Ireland for example. Do i want Israel and Palestine to be at war? No, same as i don’t want Ukraine and Russia to be at war, am i going to tell them what to do? No, it’s not my fucking land, and it’s not my fucking government. This is literally not my problem to answer.
The western society, the US in particular has issues with over projecting power and influence into eastern society and expecting it to work, it doesn’t time after time. Why are we expecting this to be any different?
also to be clear, you are quite literally pulling this out of your ass, because i’m not even sure this would be classified as a genocide, it might be. And here you are arguing that i am quite literally defending it, even though the only thing i contest is what these actions are constituted as. Whether or not i think it’s genocide or not doesn’t magically make all the people dying go away. You’re the one doing that conflation here, not me.
also, cool reference to the nazis, once Israel turns to Egypt and starts bombing them indiscriminately or something, i’ll believe you.
You genocide defending fucks make me sick to my stomach.
“More legally and specifically” as if “ethnicity” isn’t well defined in international law. gtfo noob.
Does the state share cultural and historical background with the rest of the NATION-STATE they belong to? Yes. They do. They share a cultural and historical background.
So if you lived a hundred years ago, you would say that the Nazis aren’t on “your land” and thus “literally not your problem to answer”?
We live in an global interconnected world and you bet your goddamn stinky arse that it’s also your problem, no matter how indirectly. The war in Ukraine isn’t your land, thus “literally not your problem”, right?
And that’s a very simple example (for what I assume is a very simple person), but people could list literally thousands of ways how this is your problem as well.
Do you live under a fucking rock?
https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192
The motherfucking INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT has said there are “reasonable grounds” for a genocide, and their standard of proof is a bit higher than some random asshole online who admits they don’t know anything about anything that’s outside of America.
http://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/05/the-icjs-findings-on-plausible-genocide-in-gaza-and-its-implications-for-the-international-criminal-court/
It beggars belief that people like you exist; saying that what is very clearly an intentional genocide isn’t one and that no-one should do anyone about it. Do you have no fucking morals? Were you just brainwashed so horribly on your Birthright?
If this were real life, you wouldn’t even dare to say aloud that “why would it even be considered a genocide”, because you’d be so ashamed because everyone would look at you like the drooling moron you are.
Educate yourself https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192
if this is what does you in, you won’t have a very good time on this little thing here called the internet, again, you keep saying shit i don’t say. Stop putting words in my mouth.
While we’re here, let’s play a game. one of my personal favorites
alright then big man, link me to the resources that define these things.
most of palestine is partially arab, therefore, palestine is arab in ethnicity. There are a few religious minorities, but that’s typical, though i’m not familiar with most middle eastern states so i wouldn’t know if any of those are illegal elsewhere.
Also if this is such a hard concept for you to grasp, i will simply point you to asian, european, slavic, african, all of these are arguably ethnicities, though broadly defined, as there are usually more specific subsets for these. Palestinian is arguably a subset of these more broadly defined groups (though i left out the middle east)
The reason that the holocaust was considered genocide was because it was literally targeting jews, for no reason other than cleansing them. (also it had a kill count in the millions) If genocide is considered to be killing people of an ethnic group, than would you classify the US bombing of japan during ww2 to be an ethnic cleansing? because as far as i can tell, that would not be what that is considered, even remotely. Even though we literally bombed hundreds of thousands of japanese people over the course of the war. Presumably genocide has to be defined by a percentage of the total population, given a motivation to “cleanse” said population, the boulder shooting for example would that count as a genocide? What about the florida church shooting?
in fact, according to the genocide convention it’s an extremely broad definition, including almost nothing specifically, other than the fact that it must be “… any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:” it doesn’t specify military operations, and i am almost sure there are exceptions to this clause in the definition of military operations, because this is law we’re talking about. In fact, this is also so incredibly broad, that the only way it could reasonably be defined, is in a court of law, specifically an international one, only then would we be able to determine what the answer is here.
you forget that this is basically what the US did up until germany threatened attack on the US. The nazis were also operating differently, unlike israel, who is actively engaged in war, germany sort of just, walked up to people, waved, said hello, and then invaded them and overthrew their governments within about a week or two. (highly verbatim, don’t take this literally, since you probably know fuck all about ww2 lol)
Nazi germany was also literally a fascist dictatorship, israel is quite literally a democratic country. These are quite literally two incomparable situations.
the war in ukraine literally isn’t my problem, i have no control over it, i have no authority over anything related to it, the best i can do is vote. That’s it. Does it affect me? Yes, so do tornados, and hurricanes, and floods, and fires, are those my problem? No, i literally can’t do anything about them. I just have to live with them.
yeah and the OPEC founding caused the energy crisis of the 70’s. I’m almost certain i could list more ways that the ukraine russia war effects the global economy, i’ve been around the topic extensively and i am rather familiar with the effects of trade on a globalized economy. My point here is that i did not create OPEC, i literally have no control over what russia decides to do, it doesn’t fucking matter what i think.
did you just link the ongoing court case? I’m not up to speed on it as i don’t turbo nerd follow every global political event unfortunately, i have to spend time playing factorio and shit, i’m a person after all. So i’m not sure if this has had a legal conclusion (though i would have almost certainly heard about it) This is literally the equivalent of me suing you for “raping me” that doesn’t mean that you raped me, or that i lied, it just means that it has to go through court, it has to be tried, and it has to be ruled on, to some degree. To my knowledge, none of that has happened yet considering what most of those links appear to be are “motions filing for the convention of genocide”
and i don’t disagree? My problem here is that there is no “proven genocide” it’s “reasonable grounds for genocide” those are two very different things. And yes, the standard of proof IS higher than my dumbass self saying shit on the internet, you’ll notice i have literally NEVER said that this is or isn’t a genocide, i’ve just said that i’m not sure what this would be classified as, because this is a rather unusual proceeding in modern politics.
also here’s a little fun fact if you’re linking israeli officials that go against netanyahu. Have you ever considered that they may be doing it as an act of political posturing to gain support from opponents of netanyahu? If i were a political figure in israel that was opposed to him, i would absolutely be doing the same thing.
“plausible violations of the Genocide Convention in Gaza”
plausible does not mean confirmed, it just means likely possible. Not that it even happened, but that there’s a likely chance that it could’ve happened Plausible is barely any more sound than 'maybe" or “possible” or “technically a possibility”
wow… you are, uh, very bad at reading comprehension, like really bad. Are you chatGPT by chance? Llama model? What flavor of generative AI are we speaking here?
To cover this one statement by statement here:
it is not “very clearly an intentional genocide” it’s a war, between an organziation that has literally (according to your standards) committed an act of terrorism against israel “At least forty-four nations have publicly expressed their unequivocal condemnation of Hamas and explicitly decried its tactics as terrorism.”
“isn’t one” Show me one message where i have explicitly said “israel is not committing genocide against palestine” Across my ENTIRE account history, please, show me one.
“no-one should do anyone about it” this one isn’t quite true, it’s more a mischaracterization than anything. What i’m saying is that we you and me, have almost nothing that we can do, other than say “hey i don’t like this, don’t do that shit.” but that’s about the extent of it, our elected officials can do more, and doing this “genocide denial” shit, doesn’t fucking help. Because at the end of the day nobody fucking cares whether it’s genocide or not they want the war to stop
i do have morals, they’re just rather minimal, and weirdly enough, don’t include the very specific designation of “ISRAEL BAD PALESTINE GOOD” anywhere in there, it does have shit like “war crimes bad” “war not good” “crime bad” “don’t murder” though.
homie you are the one putting words into my mouth here. Please, if you’re going to accuse a degenerate furry of being “brainwashed” at least be clever about it.
this literally is real life, and i’m right here, and you’re right there, unless you’re chatgpt. Why would i be ashamed? This is a very standard practice in the field of philosophy, especially sociology. Clinical analysis of these types of situations is the only thing that provides meaningful results. Also cool adhom, should i call you retarded now? Is that how this works? I would rather not though, because that’s extremely rude.
again, i think you need to actually read what it says, because it’s pretty explicit about what it says, and what it says is that “it is possible that genocide has been committed in gaza by israel.” If it said anything else, there would be an arrest warrant out for netanyahu, most of the upper political government, as well as most military leaders, and perpetrators of the “genocide” weirdly, there seems to be a distinct lack of any of this happening, and i’m not sure why, it’s almost as if nobody really knows what the status of what is currently happening is.
Like I said, people like you make me sick to my fucking stomach.
So… either you’re completely incapable of using Google, or you’re arguing in bad faith, because you just don’t even want to try and look up the definition. I can’t know for certain, perhaps you’re just so stupid you literally have never used Google?
https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/stats/documents/ece/ces/ge.41/2014/mtg1/10_E_0718.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ethnicity-and-international-law/ECF719C31352BA6F65CF54A887B9E384 https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/ethnic-minority-lawyers/a-guide-to-race-and-ethnicity-terminology-and-language
Your childish word-salad is making me laugh out-loud. You don’t even get a “good try”. Sorry boy-o.
So you deny the Genocide in Gaza?
No need to equivocate like that, your stance is clear.
You need to read it more clearly. Your grasp of language is horrible. You don’t understand the differences between terms like state, ethnicity, nation, nation-state, and refuse to even read about them, the PROUDLY IGNORANT American you are. It’s not my fault that you can’t even grasp your native language on a level that you’d be able to have this conversation.
You don’t understand what it takes for the ICJ and the ICC to admit that there is a case here. They do not admit to genocide lightly, and the trial is still open.
WHO is arguing that there ISN’T a genocide?
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-expert-says-israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-calls-arms-embargo-2024-03-26/ https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/gaza-un-experts-call-international-community-prevent-genocide-against
https://press.un.org/en/2024/ga12599.doc.htm
A majority of countries have decided that yes, it is indeed a genocide and yes, Israel is criminal scum and only a tiny minority of countries (like the US) deny the genocide.
There are THOUSANDS of experts on international law who don’t hesitate a second to call it what it is; GENOCIDE
But you stand on the side of the Nazis. Fucking disgusting.
Alright, come have an actual voice chat and webcam with me which I will record it and post it here. With your own name, of course, as this is real life we’re talking about.
https://discord.gg/kZrVjAyH
But you won’t do that, because you’re a scared little kid who has been brainwashed and is unable to question said propaganda, which is why you push it despite not really believing in it, which is why you have to argue in bad faith, which is why you pretend Lemmy is "real life"* and which is why you pretend you don’t know how to Google and which is why you equivocate two pages of utter gibberish.
So, you would outright deny that there is a genocide in Gaza, is that right?
You’ll equivocate a bit more while denying the genocide and avoiding showing your face, just like the sick nazi fucks perpetuating it.
reading the english language makes me nauseous, oh woe is me my head hurts now.
damn, the words, what do they mean. A question for the future times i suppose.
I’m not saying anything in specific with regards to the israel palestine situation other than the fact that “shit’s fucked” right now. Could there be a genocide? I suppose so. I would need more definite proof before coming to that determination. You keep pretending like not having a binary answer going one way or the other is literally impossible. It might be if you have the collective reasoning and critical thinking skills of a toddler, unfortunately, i have been blessed with the mental faculties, of a grown adult human. and therefore i have to contend with the realities of the world, because they are simply a thing that exist.
what the fuck do you mean? I have explicitly stated what my stance on this is, multiple times, it’s the same everytime, if you think it’s any different that’s a problem with your comprehension. You have probably gaslit yourself into thinking that i have an opinion on something, that i genuinely do not have an opinion on other than “idk war bad” I would go into it with more depth but clearly that would confuse you, since you seem to lack the capability of interpreting a non binary answer.
perhaps, one could argue that i was making a point about the intricacies in small things making determination of larger concepts a much harder process. Seems like you have that part ironed out, though it seems you’re more set on yelling at me and calling me a “genocide defending fuckhead”
yeah i don’t, and you probably don’t either, what i do understand is how the court works. Once there is a set ruled verdict on this case, it will be a settled matter, and i will not have to expend energy on it, as it will be decided in the global court of law as it should be not on the internet, by angry people who may or may not even be real.
oh i don’t know, let’s see here, a significant portion of the media, a good chunk of israel, a good chunk of the israeli population, probably a pretty big segment of the jewish population as well. Idk man, seems like quite a few people here to me.
There is no decision here, unless we are talking about the court case, and if we’re talking about the court case, then no, there is no decision because it has not run its due course yet. This is the entire point of the case. You don’t build a global legal system intending to prevent things like genocide, and then ONLY use it when there is 100% provable, for certain genocide going on. Because then it would, ironically, miss genocide. The whole point of it is to be a check and balance on the various members of the international community hopefully ensuring that something like ww2 never has to happen again.
These countries might publicly report that they believe this, but this is also just that they believe it, and i would presume it’s probably “we believe that israel might be perpetrating genocide” rather than the aforementioned 100% affirmative, you seem to continually and regularly use.
oh cool, so you probably have a document included the signed, consented opinion of thousands of international law experts saying verbatim “i believe that israel has 100% committed genocide” that isn’t just going to be a 300 hundred page document about the potentiality that israel has committed genocide? I find it curious that you don’t link anything the first time around, seems like you’re here to yell at people first and provide sources later, seems rather irresponsible to me.
i literally don’t, and you can’t prove otherwise, and you haven’t proven otherwise. Try harder kiddo.
you are literally asking me to doxx myself, very cool. Super cool, perchance can i have your full legal name? Also why would i? Doxx me and come say hi :)
just for the record here, i’m not going to do it because i have nothing i want to say to you. Nor do i care enough about this ordeal to deal with someone on a level like this. But yeah no i guess the “nuance” propaganda has really gotten into my brain and it has really affected me now. It’s affected me so deeply that i’ve completely broken down my entire life view, and rebuilt it from the ground up, just so i could have a view on life that wasn’t defined by any existing structure or ideology in particular. I guess that propaganda has really worked it’s way in huh? The years of isolation in pursuit of meaning have culminated in the end result of nothing after this long period of time. (i also do not have a webcam, so)
You’re sitting here pretending that discord is real life, why are you accosting me for saying that lemmy is real life (ignoring the fact that this is a blatant mischaracterization) lemmy would be considered to be an extension of life, arguably, an extension of the socialization of life specifically. Since most people don’t use lemmy much outside of socializing. But that’s clearly too much of an abstract concept for you.
also i don’t think you understand what the definition of equivocation is, you’re the one equivocating my statements lol. Equivocal just means that something is “not clearly defined/stated” an equivocation is using that specific mechanism to work around a certain thing, most commonly a question. If you were to ask me a question, to which i was to respond with something that isn’t an answer, that would be an equivocation. I however, am responding with an answer. It’s very clear.
Also i like the little extra asterisk after the quoted italics section, very cute, i can see you were rather angry when typing that section out.
to rephrase this a little bit, since you’re very clearly loading the statements here. Just because i feel a little bit generous.
“so, would you consider what israel is doing in gaza, to be equivalent to a genocide?”
my short answer would be “no, because i do not have a clear understanding of the situation to a point where i can make a reasonably informed decision on the matter.”
My long answer, would be: Given the historical contexts of what is currently going on in israel/palestine at the given moment, it is extremely difficult to give a concise answer to the question, adding all of the propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation out there on the internet, from both sides (we know this part from the ukraine, russia war, it’s very apparent) that there is almost no reputable source of information regarding any one topic on the matter, as it differs from person to person. Combined with the given definition of genocide being a particular action, and this being a very definite war. It’s hard to delineate between where war stops, and genocide ends. When we include middle eastern culture into this it only gets less defined.
In short, i have no reasonable way, manner, or method, to make a well informed opinion of the events taking place, including my understood lack of knowledge on the topic, such that i wouldn’t be disseminating some form of misinformation, or disinformation, which is not something i wish to do. Combine that with the general stance i have on providing other people free will, and not trying to influence people in any particular manner, it would not benefit me in any manner either. The best i can do is to coalesce my known information into one place, and collect my thoughts in a manner that allows me to best express my understanding of the situation, in hopes that it gives other people insight into what’s going on, on some rudimentary level, while on top of that, instilling in them a healthy dose of nuance.
although i’m sure nothing i could say would satiate your desires for conflict.
oh please, show me your face! I’m sure it’s pretty. Or will you not, because you don’t stand for your own morals? I will continue to not, because my morals are simply different from yours, and that’s ok. That makes me no less of a person than you, just anonymous. As i prefer to be on the internet, presumably, like you currently are, and will continue to be, because you have no interest in revealing your identity to me as it could bring unforeseen consequences. Which, is fine. Though hypocritical given your previous statements. Perhaps you could even do some equivocation of your own there?
And how exactly did you get “I hate reading” from “I hate genocidal fucks like you”?
Weirdly you keep avoiding actually mentioning any, just going on with vague “both sides” bullshit and “not enough evidence” patheticism.
Since it clearly missed you; DO YOU THINK THERE’S A GENOCIDE GOING ON IN GAZA?
Do you think Israelis are at an equal risk of being the victims of genocide as Palestinians are?
ANSWER CLEARLY; since I’m clearly incapable of perceiving anything other. (Or you just equivocate because you know what is the right side of history but you don’t actually want to go against your brainwashing of DO NOT CRITICISE ISRAEL DO NOT CRITICISE ISRAEL.)
You didn’t read it, got it. You skimmed and concluded “there’s no sentence” and thought that’s it. That’s exactly my point about the way you “argue.”
Yes, I knew you wouldn’t, because you don’t have the spine to stand behind this garbage with your own name, face or even voice. Probably because it’s high and crackling. You can’t put your money where your mouth is, because you don’t believe or even understand what you’re pushing.
No, it isn’t, unless you’re pushing Israeli propaganda.
Again. Literally the vast fucking majority of the world agree it’s a genocide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa's_genocide_case_against_Israel#Other_international_responses
Algeria[179] Bangladesh[4] Bolivia[180] Brazil[181][182][183] Chile[184] China[185] Colombia[181][186] Comoros[187] Cuba[188] Djibouti[187] Egypt[189][190] Indonesia[191] Iran[192] Iraq[191] Ireland[193] Jordan[194] Lebanon[195] Libya[196] Malaysia[197] Maldives[198] Mexico[199] Namibia[4] Nicaragua[4][200] Pakistan[201] Palestine[4] Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic[202] Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[203] Slovenia[204][205] Spain[206][207] Syria[208] Turkey[197] Venezuela[4] Zimbabwe[209][210] African Union[211][212] Arab League[213] Organisation of Islamic Cooperation[214] Non-Aligned Movement
Some more alliances, less stately:
These are just the ones officially supporting South-Africa’s ICC case. Not every country which condemns Israel.
https://press.un.org/en/2024/ga12599.doc.htm
You know why a majority is for giving Palestine official UN status and Israel and other pussy-states are against it? Because as soon as it goes through, it’s much simpler to show that the legal definition of a genocide (which you tried looking up on fucking wikipedia :DDD, here have an actual document lol.
Here’s the Israeli Defence Minister directly announcing that they are fighting “HUMAN ANIMALS”. (Perhaps google the word “dehumanisation”.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbPdR3E4hCk (edit forgot to add this link)
Yeah, because you’re **PURPOSEFULLY IGNORING ALL THE INTERNATIONAL LAW EXPERTS AND GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS LOUDLY CRYING GENOCIDE, GENOCIDE GENOCIDE." You’re like a Flat Earther insisting he’s using objective science. You’re like a scientologists, denouncing psychiatry. You’re like a transphobe screaming “there are only two genders.” ALL the fucking experts disagree with you, but you’re not man enough to admit when you’re wrong, or even man enough to understand you should stop shaming yourself online.
“NO WAY OF KNOWING :///////”"
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/gaza-un-experts-call-international-community-prevent-genocide-against
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/03/un-experts-condemn-flour-massacre-urge-israel-end-campaign-starvation-gaza
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9950n003yo
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/02/israelopt-un-experts-appalled-reported-human-rights-violations-against
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/19/israels-actions-in-gaza-intentional-attack-on-civilians-un-inquiry
https://turkiye.un.org/en/263401-gaza-number-children-killed-higher-four-years-world-conflict
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/06/25/how-israel-targets-journalists-in-gaza-the-press-vest-now-puts-us-in-danger_6675653_4.html
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/10/un-expert-warns-new-instance-mass-ethnic-cleansing-palestinians-calls (and that’s from last october)
Ah, there’s nothing I can do to fix a sick puppy like you, so I don’t know why I’m wasting my time on a propaganda-troll. You will never admit Israel is raping and pillaging Palestinians, and it’s disgusting and it should make you really, really fucking concerned about your own psyche that you have this sickly desire to acquiesce to shit you know isn’t real.
But I guess those UN offices are just “anti-semites looking to genocide Israel”, huh?
For the record, I love reading. It’s just that you’re not producing text. You’re producing gibberish you think is convincing rhetoric. It’s sort of like watching a five-year old play kitchen. You have absolutely no idea of the words you use and your rhetoric is elementary.
You ignore the evidence , then you equivocate and move the goalposts.
You ignore the fact that ICJ and ICC courts take a significant amount of time. If you were right now being held for trial for allegedly having raped 800 children and there were hundreds of hours of filmed evidence of you doing it, do you think it’d mean you’re innocent because you’ve not yet got a guilty verdict?
You’re despicable. And it shows from you getting so utterly pissed when I sussed out so easily that you’re probably part of this group and of Jewish American descent, went to your birthright (because you couldn’t afford a holiday anytime else) and got brainwashed so bad that now you’re getting literally cross-brained trying to not to admit what the scum of Israel are doing.
Why do you ignore all the evidence?
I read all your childish garbage utterings. None of them have a lick of an argument behind them. It’s like piss-poor rhetoric from a malnourished Soviet official who started vodka on an empty stomach; zero literacy and stumbling all over in a panic because they know they’re in trouble.
i’m mocking you for saying the same thing repeatedly, it’s fucking cringe bro. We get it, you cannot stomach the thought that sometimes people disagree with you.
ironically, i do answer it, you just keep ignoring it, for some reason, i’ve given a very clear answer.
oh good, a good question, i actually really like this question.
To answer your question, if we’re talking from a military power standpoint, israelis have a significantly less risk of “being genocided” as opposed to “palestinians” though this is within the context of this war specifically. The reason why is because israel is a massive military state, (they own f35s btw, they’re basically a US proxy with how much military power they have) Palestine on the other hand, gets weapon shipments from iran, as per usual. I believe there are also a few other imports they have, but they’re the usual primary suspects, from my understanding though it’s primarily iran using it as an excuse to proxy war.
Looking at a state size and population metric, it’s hard to argue against the claim as well, there are simply more people in israel.
If we’re arguing outside the context of the war, from the perspective of the middle east? I don’t know, depends on how well relations between israel, and the rest of the middle east are i suppose. Palestine would be basically the rest of the middle east, aside from the fact that it borders israel (again, we’re ignoring everything else, this is a purely geographic/demographic based analysis)
Wow! Look at that, when you ask good questions, it’s almost like it’s possible to receive good answers!
since you seem to think i cannot criticize israel at all, it is clearly impossible for me to do so. Even though i have said NOTHING about israel, i will now go on to criticize israel and their wartime efforts.
Let’s see, notably in the public eye, the civilian causalities have been rather high. But then again, russia has also lost 300,000 troops in combat, granted not civilian, they’re mostly conscripts and draft picks. (a significant portion of which have been ethnic minorities living in russia, so if we’re talking about genocide, arguably russia has been technically been doing a genocide, just very quietly) Perhaps that should make you sick to your stomach as well. Ukraine has also suffered losses, but they have also evacuated millions of people, to my knowledge. So most of which would’ve been people who didn’t evacuate (likely by choice) or soldiers.
The public eye is rather boring though, so let’s go a little bit deeper, israels control over gaza over the last period of however long it’s been going on for is rather concerning. There’s very little freedom living in gaza, but then again, hamas did decide to war against israel, so how much of that is really “israel bad” and how much of that is “hamas bad” is a question left up to interpretation i suppose. These kinds of thing when in war are so inconsequential it’s not even worth considering though.
Israel absolutely has all kinds of propaganda, i’m not versed on what is confirmed propaganda, but i’ve heard a lot of stuff is, and a lot of stuff isn’t though i’m almost certain that some of it is.
Public PR wise, netanyahu is terrible. Unless you’re jewish probably. He seems like a goofy guy, seems to be stuck in an awkward spot where most of his government isn’t supporting him, except for the far right, so he seems to be leaning on them in order to stay in power. The public in israel doesn’t seem to be happy with what he’s doing.
Long term, israel doesn’t seem to have a plan, they seem to either war constantly, or not. They don’t seem to have any sort of long term solution at all. Which is obviously, not helpful at all. They really seem content to just, keep warring. When they do stop warring, they seem to cause problems. Often times shit happens that really shouldn’t (arguably hamas is one)
nah i just don’t remember what i typed because it’s been like three fucking days and i’m not scrolling up to make a coherent point about some shit i’m clearly philosophically babbling about.
yes it is? It’s literally war? Go find ANY open source intelligence community working on military stuff, anywhere, and please tell me how confident they are in what they find, and what they predict. You’ll find that they aren’t confident at all, and in fact just propose ideas. It’s really quite boring, but i find it rather interesting.
again, i think this is a slight mischaracterization. This is a list of countries around the world who support south africas legal inquiry to whether or not this is considered to be genocide. Meaning that they would like for a just answer to the question at hand.
“The president expressed his support for South Africa’s initiative to call on the International Court of Justice to order Israel to immediately cease all acts and measures that may constitute genocide”
Hey look at that! it’s a quote directly from the segment you quote from on wikipedia! It says EXACTLY what i said it would probably say, isn’t that weird? It’s almost like i know some things.
woah, look at that, an actual legal definition, you could’ve just linked that in the first post, or comment, i don’t remember how this thread started anymore and we wouldn’t be here!
Regardless i still have some issue with the definition as stated, because it has no (at least none that i can find) stipulations for anything regarding an actual war, because it turns out, most wars would arguably be defined as genocide under that definition. The USSR against Afhgan war? Genocide. WW1? Genocide. Numerous genocides infact! Japanese sino war? Also probably genocide! Japanese russo war? Also probably genocide! The mexican american war? Also, still probably genocide.
anyway, enough contextual meandering, that’s not the point, i’m just making a point here.
little fun fact for you, human rights orgs are primarily opposed to this, because it’s a fucking war. Nobody likes war. Also just because someone is an expert doesn’t mean you should listen to them, and or fully believe them. here’s a little tidbit of information for you. Most of these experts particularly the law experts, are probably rather infamiliar with local cultural customs and differences between the east and the west, which is almost certainly an influencing factor for this war. A lot of them are likely getting lots of air time. (which also means money) and the media loves money! We know this.
Also, they’re loudly crying genocide. Nobody wants to fucking listen to anybody doing that. It’s literally the boy who cried wolf. If it’s actually a genocide, the currently ongoing court case slated to determine this question, will fucking tell us. As for now, how do we talk about this? Simple, don’t call it a genocide, because we don’t fucking know. You wanna talk about war crimes? That’s great, i’ll listen, there’s something actually tangible there. You wanna talk about human rights? That’s another big thing, that’s a tangible thing.
Stating that this is genocide is like me stating that the world is going to end october 22 2042. It doesn’t matter to you whether i’m factually right about it, maybe i’m fucking god for all you know. There’s nothing of tangible substance there. You can’t do anything with that. Therefore, you don’t care.
hey look, a good argument against israel, sure is weird how when you bring up tangible things, stuff starts to become a lot more reasonable doesn’t it?
i could say the exact same thing to you, and it would be equally as valid. This is a bad argument. I won’t entertain it.
you link things that do not claim there is an active genocide (in the headline at least) and the one that does, is lying.
i appreciate that you picked up the furry lore. :)
they might be, idk, russia might have been doing the same thing in ukraine, wars fucked bro. You see that video from wagner of the POW being sledehammered?
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