Genocide according to Wikipedia is, "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group". According to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment 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:
(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."
(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."
There is a notion of "cultural genocide" but not only does its definition remain intentionally unclear, but it is a separate term from "normal" genocide.
Once again, when reality doesn't line up with the talking points used to attack Israel, the HPers prefer to try to change reality rather than their minds.
surprised no one chimed in to the second comment by pointing out that 'erasing' a culture with a 'history' that was only recently created wasn't a particularly significant set of events, any more than, say, canceling a TV show after a few seasons.
ReplyDeleteNo one points out that the Arab population under Israeli rule has grown exponentially since 1967.
ReplyDeleteThat would be inconvenient to the anti-Zio claim Israel is committing genocide. If the Jews have really done that, they've done a poor job of it.
Plus if that was true, wouldn't the Israeli and foreign press be reporting it? After all Israel is a small country and no crime of that scale could ever be concealed for long.
I bring this all up to show its not the truth the anti-Zios are after.
It Sounds like they’re extrapolating from internally displaced = nakba = Holocaust, (despite there being about 70,000 casualties from the conflict since 1948).
ReplyDeleteNow they're making a mockery of real genocides.
Not much of a culture to lose:
In 1937, the Arab leader Auni Bey Abdul Hadi told the Peel Commission: "There is no such country as Palestine. Palestine is a term the Zionists invented. Palestine is alien to us."
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