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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by bedrooms@kbin.social to c/news@beehaw.org

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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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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Even Nazi Germany did not make killing the official "intention" or government policy

Nazi Germany started with different policies depending on the target group:

Jews, Blacks, other "non Aryans": deport to Africa.
Gay and "deviant sexuality": jail, ostracism, castration, labor camps, or death penalty.
Wrong nationality or religion: labor camps.
Genetically defective (excluding gay), Gypsies: kill on sight.

Then, when the conquest of North Africa got thwarted, and the costs of war started piling up more and more, Mr. Reinhard (aka "The butcher of Prague", among other similar nicknames) came up with the definitive alternative: "kill them all".

There were always "some Nazi extremists" who wanted to "kill them all" from the beginning... just like now we have "some Russian extremists" who wanted to "nuke Paris and London" from the beginning... or "some Israeli extremists" who wanted to "push all Palestinians to concentration camps in Egypt" from the beginning, or "tear down all non-Jewish homes" (that includes both Muslim and Christian).

There is little evidence that Israel, like Hamas, “intends” to destroy an ethnic group—the Palestinians

...and of course that is total BS. The foundation of Israel is the UN resolution, which has two parts:

Creating two states: Israel, and Palestine
Merging the two states into one

AKA: there can only be one state left... so someone has to get stomped out.

That's what the UN and Israel's Declaration of Independence have been saying all the time.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now, there doesn't have to be one ethnicity in one state, but that is the practical outcome in this case, pretty much from the beginning.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Theoretically true. There are many countries with multiple ethnicities after all... yet in how many of them the different ethnicities actually live in peace with each other? It would seem like there are ethnic clashes everywhere, and the farther that WW2 fades out in collective memory, the more of them.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

There are different levels of peace, and people seem to find far more reasons than just ethnicity to fight over. I mean, Sufis, Sunnis, and Shias all fight with each other and they're all Islam.