How the term “genocide” is misused in the Israel-Hamas war (www.economist.com)

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I used to like The Economist, but this is Nazis propaganda right on their page.

Israel, by contrast, does not meet the test of genocide. There is little evidence that Israel, like Hamas, “intends” to destroy an ethnic group—the Palestinians. Israel does want to destroy Hamas, a militant group, and is prepared to kill many civilians in doing so. While some Israeli extremists might want to eradicate the Palestinians, that is not a government policy.

This is not okay. This is Nazi logic. Nazi, fascist logic, from The Economist.

Even Nazi Germany did not make killing the official "intention" or government policy in my understanding. At least not always. It was announced as a safety guarantee, for example.

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[-] Quexotic@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago

Also there's a subtext I haven't seen news outlet calling out. Every time they put out one of those announcements for them to leave voluntarily (not that they actually have anywhere to go or any means to get there) somehow cell communications and internet went down simultaneously just prior. Almost as if, I don't know, somebody disabled communications and then put out a communication so that no one would find out and they would have an excuse. "They never left!"

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

I deffo noticed that the IDF tried to deliver a message to an arabic speaking population in an area where they had destroyed the internet, but that they did it in english on twitter. feels rather performative, no?

[-] Quexotic@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

Lol, I didn't have those details before. Definitely increases the absurdity.

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