General Discussion

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The legal definition of Genocide requires specific intent and genocidal actions. From the UN:

Article II of the Genocide Convention contains a narrow definition of the crime of genocide, which includes two main elements:

A mental element: the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such"; and
A physical element, which includes the following five acts, enumerated exhaustively:


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.¹

Israel ended it's occupation in 2005 after 9,000 Israelis were forcibly removed from the strip and the IDF gave the security responsibilities to Fatah. Control of the Gaza–Egypt border was handed over to Egypt and the Gazans. According to Israel’s high court:

Israel’s High Court of Justice found in 2008 that Israel’s effective control ceased in 2005. Specifically, it found that the “[m]ilitary rule that applied in the past in this territory came to an end by a decision of the government, and Israeli soldiers are no longer stationed in the territory permanently, nor are they in charge of what happens there.” It, therefore, determined that the occupation ended in 2005.

No other occupation has been recognized without a physical military presence or a puppet regime, this so called occupation without occupation is unique to Israel.




I don't consider them false, or talking points per se, law is not nearly as unequivocal as you seem to think, and at the end of the day these accusations about so called genocide, ethnical cleansing etc are being used by the media/social media in a very cynical way to frame the conflict that conceals the role played by Hamas and their revanchist dreams of ridding Palestine of Jews.

¹ https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition