This opinion piece argues against labeling Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide, dismissing such claims as an effort to evoke comparisons with Nazi Germany and accusing critics of using misleading tactics. The author critiques the proposed reinterpretation by the International Court of Justice that could broaden the definition of genocide, suggesting it would also apply to historical conflicts like World War II bombings where civilian casualties vastly outnumbered military ones.
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The word “genocide” is thrown around by Israel-haters to conjure up Nazi imagery for credulous Western leftists.
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genocide → throw → leftists
That’s the beginning and end of it.
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That → ’ → it
It’s a hoax.
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It → ’ → ?
And whenever you point out the low civilian-to-combat ratio, or note there was never any famine, or mention that the population of Gaza has possibly grown since the war began, “genocide” accusers begin pettifogging and relying on legalistic language to make their point.
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accusers → point → point
But no international court has found Israel guilty of genocide, and no court would be able to do so unless the definition was radically changed.
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definition → find → genocide
Which is why, as the Wall Street Journal reports, the International Court of Justice is contemplating an absurd watering down of “genocide” in an effort to help South Africa win its pending case against Israel.
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Africa → report → Israel
The Genocide Convention of 1948 requires evidence of “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such.”
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Convention → require → group
The proof, according to the ICJ, must be found in a “genocidal plan” or inferred from a “pattern of conduct” if that conduct is the
only “reasonable inference.”
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conduct → accord → conduct
Well, if Hamas had surrendered on Oct 8, rather than engaging in kidnapping and hiding behind civilians (a war crime), no Gazan city would have been bombed, and no civilians would have lost their lives.
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civilians → surrender → lives
It is reasonable then to infer that Israel was fighting against an army of terrorists, not the population.
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Israel → infer → terrorists
And if a death toll, harsh rhetoric, and a blockade are enough to infer genocidal intent, even alongside legitimate military aims, virtually every war that Americans — or any other army, for that matter — have ever fought in could be called genocide.
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Americans → infer → matter
Around 350,000 of them were killed in those three incidents alone.
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350,000 → kill → incidents
It would be easy for the ICJ to “infer” without any evidence that the Americans aimed to massacre as many Japanese civilians as possible, even though the Imperial Armed Forces struck the United States first, even though the United States was in the middle of fighting an active enemy who refused to lay down its arms, and even though Americans had clear military objectives for those attacks.
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Americans → infer → attacks
Japan, by the way, faced famine conditions by the end of World War II due to an Allied blockade.
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Japan → face → blockade
The U.S. did not send aid; we demanded complete surrender.
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we → send → surrender
Then again, both the U.S. and Britain could easily be found guilty of genocide under the newly proposed genocide standard for their actions in Germany, where they firebombed Hamburg and Dresden in 1943 and 1945.
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they → find → 1943
More civilians died during those nine days of bombing than did in the entirety of the Gaza war.
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civilians → die → war
Historians estimate the firebombing combat-to-civilian death ratio to be
roughly 100:1 or higher.
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ratio → estimate → civilian
Most accusations of Israel genocide are accompanied by pictures of burned-out Palestinian cities.
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accusations → accompany → cities
Wait until you see what firestorms did to Hamburg.
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firestorms → wait → Hamburg
Now, I’m sure many America-hating socialists agree that the United States committed genocide during World War II.
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States → ’m → II
No serious historian or person does.
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historian → do → ?
THE RIGHT KIND OF IMMIGRANTS
We dropped millions of tons of explosives across Indochina in the 1960s and 1970s.
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We → drop → 1960s
Historians estimate that overall Korean civilian deaths were somewhere between 2 million to 3 million during that war.
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deaths → estimate → war
Sometimes they need to be fought.
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they → need → ?
Western nations like U.S. and Israel are far more inclined to protect civilians than Soviets or the Chicoms or Arabs or virtually any other army in any war.
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nations → protect → war
The international political effort to transform “genocide” into a malleable accusation is meant to smear Israel today other Western nations who fight Islamists in the future.
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who → transform → future
After all, if there was genuine proof of genocide no one would need to change the long-standing definition of the idea.
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one → be → idea
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