• @rtxn
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    991 year ago

    Both sides ARE bad. The trick is to use critical thinking and realize that one side is “stupid and misguided” bad and the other is “literal nazi, genocide against minorities, and also very stupid” bad.

      • @[email protected]
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        -91 year ago

        That’s begging the question in the traditional sense of the term in formal logic. First of all you have to establish that it is in fact a genocide. While what the IDF is doing probably counts as war crimes, I have yet to see a convincing case that it’s genocide in a legal sense. We’ll see. I’m more than willing to change my mind in light of new evidence or a stronger argument than I have seen thus far.

        • @AstridWipenaugh
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          1 year ago

          From Oxford, the traditional dictionary:

          gen·o·cide

          noun

          the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

          What part of that is Israel not doing?

          Or we can go with the legal definition from the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide linked from https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml.

          Article II

          In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

          • (a) Killing members of the group;
          • (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
          • © Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
          • (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
          • (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

          The only one in question is the last point, but any single one of those points means it’s a genocide.

        • NoIWontPickaName
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          41 year ago

          Ok so you don’t consider what they are doing genocidal actions.

          Forcing people out of their homes, cutting off all electricity, food, and water while having them in a complete barricade and shutting down or extremely limiting aid, while destroying 80% of housing is Genocide.

          If you feel the need to try and hide behind obfuscation then you do you but I can call a spade a spade.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          141 year ago

          Almost everyone with national level political power do. An open letter from House democrats to the White House urging them to work towards a ceasefire agreement had TWELVE signatures. Out of 212. And one of the 12 even tried to quietly remove her signature from it without the public noticing.

          They may not hate Palestine, but they sure as hell don’t care enough about Palestinian lives to not support the fascist Israeli government and its genocide.

        • NoIWontPickaName
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          01 year ago

          Well the democratic president just sidestepped congressional reviews to give more tank shells to the Israelis but is struggling to provide Ukraine with materiel and shut down giving them fighter jets.

    • @dgmib
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      -21 year ago

      I’m genuinely not sure which side you think is which.