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If this isn’t genocide, what is? : Comments
By Alon Ben-Meir, published 5/6/2025For over a year, I refused to ascribe Israel's war against Hamas and the reign of horror it is inflicting on the Palestinians in Gaza as genocide, but now I feel shaken to the core.
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Posted by diver dan, Thursday, 5 June 2025 10:23:14 AM
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So Israel is the most evil country on the planet and Hamas is free of blame for October 7, for placing troops in and under hospitals, for firing rockets from schools, from shooting Gazans who protest against Hamas and for stealing food from its citizens. Of the thousands who have been killed by the IDF, at least one third are Hamas terrorists and many of the rest are innocent civilians who Hamas has used as human shields.
Posted by BernieMasters, Thursday, 5 June 2025 11:02:59 AM
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When Hamas practises genocide it somehow isn't however, if Israel wants to put a stop to the idiocy against it, cries of genocide erupt from the guilty !
Posted by Indyvidual, Thursday, 5 June 2025 11:48:08 AM
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Credit to Ben-Meir for finally admitting he was wrong ... never easy to do!
Many more enlightened experts were already warning of genocide within weeks of the October 7 attack in 2023. https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/27/the-genocidal-language-behind-israels-intent-in-gaza https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/27/biden-risks-complicity-in-genocide-warns-brief And certainly by now, the majority of expert commentators unambiguously call the horror show in Gaza and the West Bank for what it is … genocide or ethnic cleansing. This process began well before October 7. “The Israeli government is slaughtering Palestinians every night, massacring people in their homes, schools, and hospitals.” (Jewish Voice for Peace Executive Director, Stefanie Fox, January 2023) Zionists have clearly stated their divine right to claim exclusive possession of all Palestinian territories. “The long game of the Zionist Project was openly proclaimed in the 2018 Basic Law of Israel confirming the intention of maintaining Jewish supremacy and exclusive rights of self-determination in the entire territory stretching from ‘the river to the sea.’” (Former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Richard Falk) https://truthout.org/articles/new-israeli-regime-moves-toward-cleansing-all-palestinians-from-palestine Zionist-funded US politicians have openly demonstrated the same support. “Netanyahu, finish them, finish them… finish them!” (US presidential hopeful, Nikki Haley on Fox News, 10 October 2023) “We are in a religious war here… Do whatever the hell you have to do… Level the place.” (US Senator, Lindsey Graham on Fox News, 11 October 2023) Yes, it’s clearly a genocide. Millions all around the world are now calling it for what it is. We just have to hope our government will now belatedly step up and strongly condemn Israel and immediately sever all diplomatic, trade and defence ties with this pariah nation. Posted by Bronwyn, Thursday, 5 June 2025 12:38:16 PM
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An attempted genocide seems to be going on indeed - but it's not by Israel, it's by the cancer which eats up Israel.
--- Dear Dan, «This clown is a lover of Terrorism and a full blown Anti-Semite» The author is a mournful Jewish Israeli. The ultimate lover of Terrorism is Binyamin Netanyahu who financed Hamas and was likely also the one who hired their terrorist services on October 7th, 2023. There has been no traitor like him since Judas Iscariot. --- Dear Bernie, «So Israel is the most evil country on the planet» Obviously not - there still is North Korea, Russia too: Is this a competition? «and Hamas is free of blame for October 7» Hamas certainly shares the blame for October 7, 2023 with its financier and covert supporter, Binyamin Netanyahu, who could reasonably also been their instigator and the brain who hired their savage services in order to save himself and his family from prison and loss of government. But now we are in 2025, not 2023 - enough is enough. Hamas has already been so badly beaten and decimated. It won't have the capabilities to repeat such atrocities for decades, or ever again without similar massive funding from Israel's king who still walks free. --- Dear Bronwyn, «Zionists have clearly stated their divine right to claim exclusive possession of all Palestinian territories.» They are not Zionists - they're Nazis who claim to be "Zionist" as their cover. The original Zionist movement was benign, though naive, seeking to include the local Arabs as respected and equal citizens in their new state: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_New_Land «hope our government will now belatedly step up and strongly condemn Israel and immediately sever all diplomatic, trade and defence ties with this pariah nation.» You should be careful to cut off the culprits and not their victims - the government of Israel and not ordinary Israelis who suffer that cancer. Severing trade would hurt many innocent people, both Israelis and Australians that benefit from their products, especially chronically ill Australians who would perish without their medications made in Israel. Posted by Yuyutsu, Thursday, 5 June 2025 2:54:13 PM
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Yuyutsu
As much as I hope you are correct, I fear that a ceasefire would simply allow Iran and Qatar to pour money into Gaza with the primary but disguised aim of re-arming Hamas and allowing it to repeat what it did on October 7. As long as Hamas is the government in power in Gaza and while maintaining its goal of destroying Israel and presumably killing any Jews who don't want to see their country destroyed, Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza will continue, with Hamas happy to see its civilians killed in order to have people like you put pressure on Israel to stop defending itself. Posted by BernieMasters, Thursday, 5 June 2025 3:31:28 PM
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This clown is a lover of Terrorism and a full blown Anti-Semite: This is what has taken over the West and will destroy it, fresh from the University educated.
We are left to ponder our future when this outcome rides the wave of universal acceptance.