A large scale effort to drop bombs on a civilian population that is ~50% minors is not systematic or intentional? You’re being deliberately obtuse.
No. Bombing campaigns are famously expensive and ineffective with regards to actually killing people. I’m serious. There’s a reason why Hitler used filtration camps and mustard gas. There’s a reason why the Chinese use forced sterilization programs. These programs are cheaper, more efficient, and more effective at genocide.
Your attempts at making the two equivalent are laughable. Airplanes are so, so, so very expensive. Doubly so when they’re filled with expensive bombs. There’s so many cheaper ways of actually and systematically erasing a population.
In case you missed it, going to copy and paste from earlier:
Russia vs Ukraine is a top-down high-level program to kidnap children, burn Ukrainian books, deny Ukrainian culture, and explicitly filter Ukrainian identity and disperse it.
Oh, Israel is taking Palestinian children and forcing them to become adopted under Israeli parents, who then force them to learn Hebrew and turn away from Islam?
Because that’s what Russia is doing to Ukrainian children in these genocidal programs (conversion into Russian Eastern Orthodoxy. Forcing the children to learn Russian, getting rid of Ukrainian history books, building new schools explicitly designed to make the children forget their original culture, etc. etc.). There’s no similarity man. I’m ignoring that article because its clearly a misunderstanding of the issues at play here.
No. Bombing campaigns are famously expensive and ineffective with regards to actually killing people. I’m serious. There’s a reason why Hitler used filtration camps and mustard gas. There’s a reason why the Chinese use forced sterilization programs. These programs are cheaper, more efficient, and more effective at genocide.
The difference is, Israel relies on receiving billions of dollars from foreign nations to support itself and this war. If they were to do such things, they would likely lose a lot of that support. So they need to have plausible deniability.
“Article 2 of the Convention defines genocide as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:”
Killing members of the group; - They’ve done plenty of this
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; - They’ve done plenty of this
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; - See above statements on forcing civilians from their homes, destruction of residences, prevention of food and water
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; - See my above statements explaining the similarity
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. - Already explained to you
A genocide is a genocide even if the destruction is only partial. Only one of these is needed to define a genocide under the genocide convention, and Israel is very nearly doing all five.
Oh, Israel is taking Palestinian children and forcing them to become adopted under Israeli parents, who then force them to learn Hebrew and turn away from Islam?
You are adding on extra qualifications when I already proved similarity. You are moving the goal posts.
No. Bombing campaigns are famously expensive and ineffective with regards to actually killing people. I’m serious. There’s a reason why Hitler used filtration camps and mustard gas. There’s a reason why the Chinese use forced sterilization programs. These programs are cheaper, more efficient, and more effective at genocide.
Your attempts at making the two equivalent are laughable. Airplanes are so, so, so very expensive. Doubly so when they’re filled with expensive bombs. There’s so many cheaper ways of actually and systematically erasing a population.
In case you missed it, going to copy and paste from earlier:
https://time.com/6548068/palestinian-children-israeli-prison-arrested/
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/time/
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/03/1216200754/gaza-heritage-sites-destroyed-israel
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/npr/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/30/gaza-library-palestinian-culture/
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-post/
The scale is not the same here at least in part due to the difference in size between Ukraine and Palestine. But the similarity is clear.
Oh, Israel is taking Palestinian children and forcing them to become adopted under Israeli parents, who then force them to learn Hebrew and turn away from Islam?
Because that’s what Russia is doing to Ukrainian children in these genocidal programs (conversion into Russian Eastern Orthodoxy. Forcing the children to learn Russian, getting rid of Ukrainian history books, building new schools explicitly designed to make the children forget their original culture, etc. etc.). There’s no similarity man. I’m ignoring that article because its clearly a misunderstanding of the issues at play here.
The difference is, Israel relies on receiving billions of dollars from foreign nations to support itself and this war. If they were to do such things, they would likely lose a lot of that support. So they need to have plausible deniability.
And you’re feeding into that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention#Definition_of_genocide
“Article 2 of the Convention defines genocide as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:”
A genocide is a genocide even if the destruction is only partial. Only one of these is needed to define a genocide under the genocide convention, and Israel is very nearly doing all five.
You are adding on extra qualifications when I already proved similarity. You are moving the goal posts.
Have a good day.
You keep ignoring the “intent” part, despite quoting it.
Have a good day as well. I don’t expect that you’ll make much progress on the “Intent” portion of this debate here on out.