Comments by "Barry On" (@barryon8706) on "Breaking Points Coverage of the War in Gaza Falls Short" video.
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In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group". These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly.
Now if you want to say "in part" means that the civilian deaths are the "in part" but there's been no evidence that Israeli policy is intent on just killing Palestinians any more than bombing Dresden or Tokyo were to just kill Japanese.
Israel's actions are consistent with someone fighting an existential threat that lives among civilians. Under those conditions, a lot of civlians are expected to die. That's unfortunate, but "a lot of civilians dying" is not the same as "genocide."
And the opinions of some Israeli government officials, unless they are stated policy, aren't, well, policy. In actual policy, Israel has repeatedly warned civilians.
Now if HAMAS put on uniforms and met the IDF in open battle, away from civilians, and a lot of Palestinian civilians continued to die, that would be strong evidence of genocide.
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