Comment on How Chinese firm linked to repression of Uyghurs aids Israeli surveillance in West Bank
Therealgoodjanet@lemmy.world 1 year agoSo, let’s look at the definition of genocide and see where Israel lands here.
Definition Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article II In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Source: the UN
So; let’s have a quick look at these points:
- Over 11,000 deaths, majority of civilians. And I’m just talking about deaths since Oct 7, I did not include any numbers from before that. Check.
- Illegal occupation and cutting off food, water, electricity and free movement. Check.
- Unknown to me.
- Unknown to me.
The head of the UN, Craig Mokhiber, just retired and called it unequivocally a genocide, here’s a source for that, but if you don’t like this source, you can just Google this and find plenty of other sources.
So, please tell me. How does Israel not fit as a genocidal regime?
BlueBockser@programming.dev 1 year ago
Therealgoodjanet@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you read the charter, you can see that if any of these things apply, it can be labelled a genocide. And you pick one and say “you need to provide proof”, glossing over the glaring fact that even without, it already counts as a genocide.
But sure, if you insist;
CBC
NPR
USA Today
People’s World
UN
Foreign Policy
ABC News
BlueBockser@programming.dev 1 year ago
Therealgoodjanet@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It seems you haven’t read any of the linked articles, so there is no need to talk about this any further until you do.
GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 1 year ago
"The minister, who also has some powers over the Israeli unit that controls border crossings and permits for Palestinians, has a long history of denying the existence of a Palestinian nation and has previously made controversial statements about them as well as on other issues like LGBTQ rights.
Earlier this month, he made incendiary comments saying that the in the West Bank “needs to be erased”’
www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/middleeast/…/index.html
BlueBockser@programming.dev 1 year ago
GeneralVincent@lemmy.world 1 year ago
State policy is made up of the opinions of those in power. They’re not going to put in their state policy “we want to ethnically cleanse Palestine” but you can use some critical thinking, read the opinions of those in the government, and see that is their intention.