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Let’s have this discussion.
A retaliatory military campaign aimed at dismantling Hamas and hunting down those responsible for October 7 is not, in itself, genocide. Words have meanings, and genocide has a legal definition…not one that changes with the political temperature of the day. To make that charge credibly, you’d need compelling evidence that genocidal acts are inseparable from official state policy and intent…not a collage of inflammatory soundbites from politicians or the inevitable cranks every democracy seems to produce.
Yes, Israel has its share of right-wing zealots. Some have suffered unimaginable personal loss and have responded with reprehensible rhetoric. Condemn them by all means. But confusing loose, ugly rhetoric with binding state policy is either intellectually sloppy or deliberately dishonest.
The more absurd spectacle is the lazy comparison with Nazi Germany. It is historically illiterate, morally disproportionate, and analytically bankrupt. Comparing a democracy fighting a war..however imperfectly..to a regime that industrialized extermination is not serious analysis; it’s political theatre masquerading as moral clarity.
And if the threshold for accusing Israel of genocide is the deliberate targeting of civilians combined with rhetoric about destroying an enemy, then intellectual consistency demands the same scrutiny of Hamas and Hezbollah, both of which have openly embraced the destruction of Israel and deliberately targeted civilians. Principles are only principles if they apply universally. Otherwise, they’re just politics dressed up as morality.