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Western liberals in a nutshell
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A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.
Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.
We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.
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They forcibly removed people of a certain race from their homes, restricted them to a small area, prevented them leaving, then made the area smaller. Then they cut off all their methods of communication outside the area of their confine. Then started indiscriminately murdering civilians and children, including bombing hospitals, and refugee camps. They also instructed civilians to flee to a certain places away from where they were bombing, so that they could avoid being bombed...and then bombed those places they said to flee to.
Totally not genocide. You fucking horses ass.
Don't forget about taking almost all their water. And leaving only shitty water for them to use.
Literally correct. Behaving badly is not automatically genocidal.
I'd address the obvious omissions in your reply, but this seems like the wrong venue for actual discussion. But no, confining people is not genocide. Cutting off communication is not genocide. Engaging in acts of war that kill civilians is not genocide. Genocide has a specific definition, and none of the items you list qualify. That doesn't mean that Israel is blameless, and they deserve a hell of a lot of criticism, but they have not committed or attempted to commit genocide.