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mhbyesterday at 7:47 PM2 repliesview on HN

Surely the oxymoronic "partial genocide" should reveal how ridiculous it is to invoke this bit of propaganda.


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RobertoGyesterday at 7:55 PM

Is not that Israel wants a genocide, is that it's pretty obvious that they are ready to commit one in order to get the ethnic cleansing that they want.

This is obvious. In fact, I suspect that they are going to success, and in a few years we will have to hear how that was a terrible mistake, but, of course, never again. Maybe, even you will be saying that.

tehjokeryesterday at 9:06 PM

RobertoG's comment is a good one, but I will add that the definition of genocide is defined in the genocide convention as:

Article 2 of the Convention defines genocide as:

    ... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

        (a) Killing members of the group;
        (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
        (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
        (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
        (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
— Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2[9]

I was sloppy in saying "partial genocide" as a colloquialism, because "partial genocide" is the crime of genocide full stop.

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