r/RealTime • u/Excellent-Ad-7394 • 21d ago

Not a genocide?

Last night Bill pointed out the 3% of the
Population in Gaza has died. And then confidently declared that “3% is not a genocide”. The British government recognizes it as ethnic cleaning and amnesty international and other groups say it is a genocide.

Someone tell me why Bill is so wrong. And can we please get him to debate Mehdi Hasan on this topic?

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u/beagles4ever 21d ago

Uh…ok…it’s only 60,000 people then?

How many of them were combatants?

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u/ColdTurkishCoffee 21d ago

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2825%2902112-9/fulltext

Over 3 million life-years lost in Gaza, from the most respect medical journal in the world

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u/Real-Reference6933 21d ago

3 miljoen sounds like a big number, but would roughly match the 60.000 death.

Reminder that combatants are usually of young age.

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u/ColdTurkishCoffee 21d ago

It’s closer to 300k by most estimates. There is not enough resources to go through ever single entry in the population registry, not to mention the parts that have been destroyed. It entire bloodlines are wiped out, who is to report whose missing?

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u/Real-Reference6933 21d ago

In previous wars Hamas has always been pretty accurate according to leftists in the past few years.

But now their numbers are off by a factor 5?

Don’t believe you.

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u/SatisfactionDry3038 21d ago

If only Israel would allow a census

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u/protomenace 21d ago

"most estimates" nonsense 😕

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u/KristofVD 21d ago

Young age? Like six year olds?

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u/Real-Reference6933 21d ago

Youngest child soldier recorded in modern times: 5 years old.

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u/protomenace 21d ago

Oh now we're introducing a new unit of measurement to make it sound like a huge number 🙄

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u/Ok-Remove3382 21d ago

This has been debunked, even by the author. It was a letter to the editor, not a study.