alt Hacker News"Wholesale population displacement, destruction of a significant percentage of civilian structures, bombings, raids, land and sea blockades,"
These are all things that happen during war. Explain why this war is different. All war is bad. I genuinely don't see how this is not a war but a genocide.
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Supermancho • today at 6:41 PM
I have questions.
What do you think are the definitions of genocide and war? (why are they different words)
Do they overlap?
js8 • today at 6:41 PM
You can think of genocide as a special case of a war, one where the party being genocided has no army or weapons to defend itself.
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catlikesshrimp • today at 6:41 PM
You cathegorize that as genocide when it is directed at a very specific group. Like jews in WWII, now it is Palestinians in their own country.
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> "Wholesale population displacement..."
> These are all things that happen during war.
You do realize that Israeli government officials openly talk about permanent relocation (expel, "voluntary migration", emigration, etc) of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza all the time:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/smotrich-says-n...
https://www.timesofisrael.com/occupy-expel-settle-minister-m...
This woman was actually tasked with that job by Netanyahu:
https://www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-04-29/ty-article/.premium/...