The law ( the Leahy Law) requires that the US vet any foreign military receiving US arms. However, that doesn’t happen with Israel

    • cannache
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      Let’s not commit to hyperbole. Netty is just a manipulative ass who needs Israel distracted with another war

      • Sybil
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        must have missed the memo where raping women to death, slicing off their tits, and mutilating their vaginas is classified as “resisting oppression”.

        I missed the proof this happened

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          I did too, but what we do have proof of, in the form of hours and hours of grisly trauma-inducing footage, is quite bad enough. While we can rightly condemn its overuse, there is no universe in which the Israelis can be blamed for reacting with force.

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              011 months ago

              Video testimony of an eyewitness

              Police have privately shown journalists a single horrific testimony

              this isn’t proof

              • @[email protected]
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                211 months ago

                Fog of war. All information about the war is provisional at this point. The full truth will come out eventually. In the meantime, I can at least believe that the BBC saw what they say they saw. If the footage itself was faked, we will find out at some point.

                • Sybil
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                  BBC saw what they say they saw

                  the bbc saw someone claiming to see something. it’s hearsay.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    211 months ago

                    Yes, that’s true, did you read my comment?

                    Also, I hate to break it to you, but the vast majority of news is hearsay. Only relatively few things are ever subjected to the level of scrutiny required by western courts of law.

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      fucking oppressed palestinian people, how dare they resist genocide, right?

      There is no genocide of Palestinians. Less than 1% of Palestinians have been killed in this conflict

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        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:

        a. Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

        b. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

        c. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

        d. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

        I’m not totally convinced that this is Israel’s intent—most of what I’ve seen points to a brazen and sociopathic indifference typical of 7th graders and goofy “strongman” populists like Netanyahu alike—but the percentage of the population killed does not factor in determining whether it is genocide.

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          They’ve killed 0.6% of the population, counting enemy militants.

          Gaza is 5x the density of Mosul, in which the US (who quite obviously was not committing genocide) killed ~10,000 civilians.

          Things can be shitty and not be genocide.

          • @[email protected]
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            Again, I really don’t to weigh in on whether or not it is genocide, if only because I’m not gonna change anybody’s opinion here. Alls I’m saying is that the qualifications for genocide do not include the destruction of the entire, or even the majority of, the population.

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                And I’m still not trying to argue with you on that. I’m just saying that the numbers you’re citing do not support your case. There are most definitely situations where killing 0.6% of a population would be considered genocide.

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                Raz Segal is an associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University and the endowed professor in the study of modern genocide.

                TIL A Jewish professor of Holocaust and genocide studies is insane.