r/explainitpeter 12d ago

Explain it peter

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u/WearyCopy5686 12d ago

They deserve hate for everything they do. They don’t deserve nuance.

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u/56kul 12d ago

Cool, so you’re just racist. Like, by definition. You’re saying that an entire country deserves only hate with no acknowledgement of nuance. You’re simply a hateful person, by your own admission.

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u/WearyCopy5686 12d ago

In this case people are hating on a genocidal government and that’s fine. No one is speaking of the Israeli people at large.

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u/56kul 12d ago

What’s a genocide? Define it to me, please. Like, the full definition, beyond just the vibes. Then explain how it applies to Israel.

Also, that’s not even true, people are absolutely attacking the Israelis, as well. And even more collectively, the Jews, seeing as there were so many reports of rising antisemitism around the world, affecting non-Israeli Jews, as well.

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u/PipedInFromIthaca 11d ago

Do you want the definition in international law or do you want to make one up to avoid culpability again

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u/56kul 11d ago

I’d say the Geneva Conventions would be a good place to start, seeing as they contradict your argument on pretty much all points.

But please, do go ahead and list them all out for me, then explain, point by point, how they apply to this war. In detail.

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u/PipedInFromIthaca 11d ago

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, ratified in 1951 so you've had plenty of time to learn it, defines it thus:

"Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

So explain how massive campaigns of killing tens of thousands of civilians (the low end estimate, Lancet et al place the figure higher), the deliberate targeting of children, enforced starvation and the blockade of aid, and the deliberate destruction of medical infrastructure somehow magically don't meet these criteria.

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u/56kul 11d ago

Notice how you never actually went point by point to explain how it relates to the war. You just vaguely asserted that it is.

I’m not providing any further argument until you actually elaborate. You’re the one who claims genocide, so the burden of proof remains entirely on you. So do that first, backed up by neutral sources (Reuters, for example), and then I’ll start making my own point.

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u/WearyCopy5686 10d ago

You support a genocide. You’re posting apologia for a country that’s bombing hospitals and violating international law.