"Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; 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; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. (Article 2 CPPCG)"
What the asshole quoted in the OP would have Israel do would be genocidal. What Israel has done and is doing is not.
The killing of nearly 2000 Gazans warrants condemnation. But to claim that Israel acted with intent to destroy all of the Palestinians (or such a substantial part as to put their continued existence at risk, which is the accepted interoperation of "in part"
, is wrong.
I find it notable that the term genocide is so much more quickly used to label actions taken by Israelis than it is with respect to actions that involve killing tens of thousands of people by other groups all around the globe.
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