re: Non leftists that are Pro Palestinian

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So you're saying it's not genocide as long as they are killing at slow enough of a rate?

Again it sounds like you're just upset about the words being used to describe Israel's actions.

Attempting to remove an entire ethnic group of people from an area of land that you would like to control. What exactly would you call that?

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That word has been so loosely bantied around that it's lost it's meaning.

Genocide Definition

"Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race".

None of that is happening in this war. None of it. There's no more ethnic cleansing going on here than when the United States utterly decimated Japan in both a conventional and nuclear bombing campaign, or more recently when the United States war efforts in Iraq caused the deaths of 200,000 to 300,000 people.

Defeating an enemy you're at war with does not equal genocide. Even if you were to believe the casualty number offered by the Palestinian Health Ministry (36,000). How does that possibly equal genocide? I could easily argue the number of Gazan casualties is as low as it is because Israel has shown remarkable restraint and has taken great pains to not commit genocide.

Stop misusing the word genocide. You cheapen it. It carries no more weight now than the word literally or phobia.