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lapucelle

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6. It's called a war, and it's a war Hamas started.
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 03:43 PM
Sep 9

Any claim to "ethnic cleansing", "extermination", and "involuntary transfer" needs to be supported by evidence of those specific legal charges. Over 20% of Israeli citizens are Palestinian. It patently absurd to claim that a country with over 2,000,000 Palestinian citizens is engaged in "ethnic cleansing" or "extermination" of Palestinians. Frankly, would Israel allow a Palestinian citizen of Israel to sit on the Supreme Court if any of the "genocide", "ethnic cleansing", or "extermination" claims were even vaguely true?

And as for apocryphal "involuntary transfers", when exactly did that happen?

The fact that "prominent groups" are making genocide claims is immaterial, given that genocide is a crime of specific intent and that intent is not present.

There's a reason why both Amnesty International and Ireland want the definition of "genocide" changed and broadened. It's because they know that the war in Gaza is not genocide and that the genocide claims are counterfactual to both the necessary conditions articulated in the language of the statute and long standing legal precedent.









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