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Did you even read the summary? They're literally both being pursued

Israel has an ICJ case going after it already. Biden must be held accountable for his complicity in genocide as well.

Be careful not to ask why a country is packed into the size of Vegas or you may realize that was a coordinated campaign by the same people who are now claiming it's impossible to not slaughter innocents because of the way THEY designed the strip.

Intentionally brining about conditions that lead to destruction in whole or part of a group is genocide, literally as written, in the Geneva Convention. Israel is the reason it's so populated there, so when they blame the density, they blame themselves.

I hate that I am defending Israel when I say this because what is occurring in Gaza is tragic, but a lot of people are confusing "Genocide" for perceived "War Crimes" as defined by international law and also confusing "Hamas" for "Palestine" or the "Palestinian Authority".

Hamas is terrorist government (similar in nature to the Taliban) that receives a lot of external funding from countries that actively wish to see the death of Israel and all Jews, making Hamas the chief perpetrators of Genocide in this conflict despite how ineffective they have been in their goals.

Israel was attacked by this terrorist government, and is now defending itself with the expressed war goal of destroying Hamas. While Israel has had a tenuous relationship with the Palestinian people (namely the government's active efforts to limit the Palestinian Authority and drag their feet on grant the PA more autonomy and their own state which is deplorable and inexcusable), they do not and have not wished to kill an entire culture of people.

Complicating matters, Hamas commonly employs warfare techniques that go against the Geneva Convention like placing government and military headquarters in basements of protected buildings like Hospitals and places of worship. The moment they do that, and abuse those international recognized sanctuaries, they become legitimate military targets leading to the tragic deaths of unwitting civilians.

People can object to the war on the grounds that war is tragic and results in many civilian casualties, but to make meritless claims is detrimental to both international institutions and to the definition of a Genocide. South Africa calls what Israel is doing a genocide, but also explicitly looks the other way with Ukraine and continues to forge close ties with Putin? (For the record, Russia's actions in Ukraine are also not considered genocide under it's strict international definition, but they have been found guilty of war crimes).

Israel has an internationally recognized right to defend itself, and it is doing that by dismantling Hamas through force. The Palestinian people are unfortunately caught in the crossfire. With that said, Israel's methods to this end are not above criticism, and they have faced pressure from the US and Biden to limit civilian casualties wherever possible, and use ground forces to directly attack Hamas rather than relying on airstrikes that have resulted in many innocent deaths.

For those reading who think all war is bad, I'll leave you with this quote from John Stuart Mills:

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

They have openly stated that's their intention, not succeeding yet is not a measure of how much they want to succeed.

Unlike the West Bank

Unlike a specific case that completely proves my point? Palestinians have homes in the west bank and Israel is still colonizing that land

Yes. They are stealing land in the Gaza strip. They are also stealing land in the West Bank. None of it was theirs to begin with, but the old "agreed upon" lines don't exist anymore either.

I imagine the Genocide claim will be aided by the targeting of hospitals which are highly restricted targets in wartime which even if their protected status is removed requires a lot of very specific measures to be taken to not be a warcrime. Since the permit system allowing use of Israeli hospitals to Palistinian patients has not relaxed and has for the most part closed up shop it is a bad look.

Not to mention the Israeli government had made outright statements that they intend to starve the civilians of food, water and fuel (fuel being fairly key to sanitation ). In fact they have actively attempted to block international relief efforts in the region so wouldn't that mean they are :

"Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part"

After all if you starve people in unsanitary conditions and take any medical care options effectively off the table I would imagine a fairly large part of the group would die as a consequence. I imagine the actual brief will have many counts as to why this is specifically a Genocide but all they need to do is fail one.

Their government and wealthy elite have made their intentions very clear with repeated statements. You don't need to wait for a genocide to be done to act. In fact it's preferable if you don't.

Right. But there is a genocide occurring.

No it's not. You need to have a trial to have legal precedent. You can't base a legal precedent on "Those other times were the same I reckon."

Lazy, wrong bullshit like this gets 7 upvotes, how? Brigading.

Good luck with the "those other guys did it too and didn't get a ticket" argumentation in a Court of Law when you try to contest a speeding ticket...

"It was done before and never taken to court" does not create a legal precedent and even if taken to court, it requires a high enough court and it's specifically about interpreting certain points of Law, so merelly "A similar situation yielded Not Guilty" means nothing.