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  • It’s definitely not “the genocide”. I don’t think it’s even “a genocide”. As clarification, this is an example of what I think qualifies as a genocide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide and I am aware that UN has far far less stringent definitions. I don’t think we should be watering down serious concepts like UN is doing there.

    But yes, that’s how I view Israel’s justification for the Gaza War. Obviously Russia’s justification for invading Ukraine is even more ludicrous than Hamas’s justification for terrorizing and invading Israel regurarily, but it’s not exactly sane either.

    Hamas is obviously the greater evil in about the same way as Nazis were obviously the greater evil in Europe in WW2. Beating them was also extremely harsh for german civilians sometimes. Dresden firebombings killed 25 000 people in a single bombing raid, in a population of about 600 000 people. Relatively speaking about as many deaths in that one day than total in Gaza since October 7 2023.

    Was it necessary? I cannot tell definitely, but probably not all of it was and probably most of it was.








  • To mention a couple from the top of my head:

    1. Palestine invaded Israel, that’s how the war started – not the other way around

    2. Ukraine is not looking to genocide Russia, just that they would fuck off. Hamas is looking to genocide Israel, and Israel would just like hamas to fuck off

    3. Ukraine is in Europe, Europe is being threatened and has been manipulated by Russia for decades

    4. Of the two largest participants in the Gaza War, Israel is closer to western values

    5. In Ukraine war, the evil participant is strong

    I’m sure there are others.