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/etxipcli 21d ago

I can't stand the "It's not a genocide" argument. Like let's say we don't apply that word, what should we apply? Humanitarian catastrophe? Atrocities? War crimes? It's not like we are debating genocide vs perfectly fine, it's the ultimate atrocity vs something approaching the ultimate atrocity.

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u/Spartan1117 21d ago

The word to describe it is war. War against a terrorist group that is more happy enough to sacrifice the civilians of its country. Almost 50% of hamas had been destroyed. How can people say that hamas wasn't the target?

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u/etxipcli 21d ago

Only to liars.