"Noooo, us? No, we would NEVER do a genocide! Here, look at these testimonies from OUR experts! Ignore the UN, Amnesty, WHO, B'Tselem, Doctors Without Borders, and especially the PRCS"
"Noooo, us? No, we would NEVER do a genocide! Here, look at these testimonies from OUR experts! Ignore the UN, Amnesty, WHO, B'Tselem, Doctors Without Borders, and especially the PRCS"
I mean, Hamas's actions are pretty unambiguously war crimes.
They were definitely terrorist actions, not sure about war crimes. But what the IDF are doing is definitely war crimes.
Attacking civilian targets and taking civilian hostages are both very unambiguously war crimes.
Yes, and they're also clearly terrorism.
But then, Israel have been reportedly and apparently focusing on "power targets", which are defined as those with little to no military value, where the goal is to destabilise the civilian population such that they put pressure on Hamas to enact change. "Using violence against civilians in pursuit of a political goal" is the dictionary definition of terrorism.
Both acts are horrific, and above the threshold of anything that could be considered acceptable. It frankly isn't even worth comparing the two to try and figure out which one is worse - to do so would only tarnish your soul. They're different, but they're both unequivocally wrong.
This is a very good post and true.
They are war crimes but they are very clearly not genocide.
Only for lack of success.
Also their voiced intention is to kill all jews everywhere – which is a genocide.
Too bad they're too busy going after Iran instead
https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/analysis-israel-and-the-genocide-case-against-iran-at-the-icj/
Let's hear some more from the "experts":
So the fact that Hamas did war crimes is a license for Israel to do the same against 10x times more civilians in Gaza, is that what you are saying?
Fuck no. But it also shouldn't be dismissed like in the meme.
Nope and nobody is saying that. It's the military nature of the targets, evacuation orders, and additional warnings that take most of these bombings out of the ambit of war crimes.
Your actions are clearly whataboutism.
Because... I took issue with a meme that can be read as suggesting that accusations of war crimes towards Hamas are peddled by fake experts spreading Israeli propaganda?