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Old 19-02-2024, 19:22   #1197
jfman
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Re: Hamas Israel War

I have no interest in reading a propaganda piece timed to claim that some people have a monopoly on who can (and who can not) invoke the word genocide.

Esteemed members of the forum routinely used it in the Russia invading Ukraine thread. A short checklist of the reasons for doing so have been met and egregiously exceeded by the Israeli state by any metric going. Deaths of civilians (in particular women and children), attacks on hospitals, attacks on places of worship, attacks on universities or other cultural symbols.

I didn’t see this podcast (or any similar ones) released to seek to police the language used following Russia beginning the special military operation. The West were more than happy to throw around claims of genocide then, I see no reason for to back away now.

One may say genocide “as commonly understood”.
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