South Africa accuses Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians

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[–]iamonlyoneman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

South Africa has enough problems of her own LOL

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Gaza has become "look, a squirrel" for a lot of crappy countries.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Sometimes a spade is a spade, no matter who is calling it a spade.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Not in this case.

The word genocide has a specific meaning.

Stating a war and then losing it is not genocide.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

"Genocide: the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group"

So you're trying to say that the definition is not valid if they say "this is a war" before the killing? That's the most retarded thing I've heard on the subject so far. That's even more retarded than people claiming Hamas started this after it was Isrealis who stormed the mosque days earlier.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It still doesn't fit the definition.

They aren't killing people based on their ethnic group.

They aren't separating out gazan palestinian muslims from the gazan population and killing them in particular.

There is no way that this is genocide unless any war is also classed the same way.

And Israel didn't storm a mosque. A group of Jewish civilians attempted entry to a mosque in Jerusalem in the site of the ruined temple to perform a ritual. All Jews are banned from the site just because they are Jews.

This in no way could have had anything to do with the Hamas offensive, which was planned for a couple of years previously.

So can you explain how you sent retarded?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They are killing indiscriminately, resulting in primarily killing civilians, women and children. It has been clear that the rhetoric used is that Palestinians are 'occupants in Jewish land' and that they should be expelled. The killings are intentional.

You can use the same logic in the recent attack at the festival. Palestine didn't attack Israeli civilians, a group of terrorists did, and yet this is supposed to be justification to carpet bomb residents of Gaza? In no way does this have anything to do with the people living there. Read your double standards, the bias is obvious.