As much as I disagreed with them, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not genocides. Probably the Korean and Vietnamese wars were not genocide. The treatment of the native Americans was genocidal.
So, here is the definition:
In the present Convention, genocide means 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;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
So, points 1-2 happen in all wars, 3 is a definite sign of genocide and what has been happening in the Palestinian territories over the past 70 years. I’m considering the state-sanctioned stealing of their lands, deprivation of movement, and continuous destruction of their cultural institutions. The last point - you have the extra-legal detention of thousands of minors by the Israeli state.
Israel has no intention of a two-state solution. They are going to continuing depriving Palestinians of their lands and livelihoods until all their land is absorbed into the Israeli State and Palestinians are no longer present.
That is what war is, madness.
Genocide is the word you’re looking for.
Name a war that wouldn’t meet your definition of genocide.
As much as I disagreed with them, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not genocides. Probably the Korean and Vietnamese wars were not genocide. The treatment of the native Americans was genocidal.
So, here is the definition:
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
So, points 1-2 happen in all wars, 3 is a definite sign of genocide and what has been happening in the Palestinian territories over the past 70 years. I’m considering the state-sanctioned stealing of their lands, deprivation of movement, and continuous destruction of their cultural institutions. The last point - you have the extra-legal detention of thousands of minors by the Israeli state.
Israel has no intention of a two-state solution. They are going to continuing depriving Palestinians of their lands and livelihoods until all their land is absorbed into the Israeli State and Palestinians are no longer present.