Hamas Attacks Israel: 70 Israelis, 198 Palestinians Dead

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(10-11-2023, 12:50 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Interestingly enough the same people sympathizing with the Palestinians would also be condemning the "white people" in your example.  Are the Palestinians subject to genocide?  That's a rather weighty accusation for which I've seen no proof.  Are they being round up and exterminated?

I meant to address this earlier, as you asked it earlier in our conversation as well, but I got swept up in the other items. Anyway...

By strict definitions, the Palestinians are not subject to a genocide. The definition of genocide is "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group."

That's clearly not happening yet.

There is, however, a strong case for qualifying their treatment as "ethnic cleansing." The definition of ethnic cleansing, according to the UN, is, "a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas."

Quote:The Commission of Experts also stated that the coercive practices used to remove the civilian population can include: murder, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, extrajudicial executions, rape and sexual assaults, severe physical injury to civilians, confinement of civilian population in ghetto areas, forcible removal, displacement and deportation of civilian population, deliberate military attacks or threats of attacks on civilians and civilian areas, use of civilians as human shields, destruction of property, robbery of personal property, attacks on hospitals, medical personnel, and locations with the Red Cross/Red Crescent emblem, among others.

Ethnic cleansing and genocide often go hand in hand, but are technically different.