President Joe Biden condemned by the move by the International Criminal Court to seek arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, saying that there was ā€œno equivalenceā€ between that countryā€™s actions and those of Hamas. Earlier today, the ICC issued a legal report in which a panel of international law experts supported a prosecutorā€™s conclusion that there [ā€¦]
  • MxM111@kbin.social
    223Ā·
    6 months ago

    Yes the intent matters. Israel intent is to destroy Hamas. Thatā€™s not genocide.

    • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org
      8Ā·
      6 months ago

      It is when they consider every Palestinian to be hamas (and anyone who they donā€™t like on a particular day)

      • MxM111@kbin.social
        110Ā·
        6 months ago

        And her we come back to civilian vs militants kill ratio, which is much lower than average numbers for urban warfare. You statement is just not supported by statistics.

    • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
      8Ā·
      6 months ago

      The precursors to genocide are actively unfolding before our eyes. On 10 October, the head of the Israeli armyā€™s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian,Ā addressedĀ a message directly to Gaza residents: ā€œHuman animals must be treated as such. There will be no electricity and no water, there will only be destruction. You wanted hell, you will get hellā€. The same day, Israeli army spokesperson Daniel HagariĀ acknowledgedĀ the wanton and intentionally destructive nature of Israelā€™s bombing campaign in Gaza: ā€œThe emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy.ā€ Raz Segal, the program director of genocide studies at Stockton University, concretely says it is a ā€œtextbook case of genocide.ā€

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      3Ā·
      6 months ago

      Intent does not matter when the direct results of premeditated actions slaughter children and innocent civilians. These arenā€™t mistakes, they are literally being explained by Israel as the war rages on as collateral damage.

      If this is acceptable on the world stage, then the only people ā€œwinningā€ in the near future will be government officials and very high ranking military personnel. Whatā€™s the point of peace when it comes at such a cost?

      The amount of aid alone that Israel continues to block, and even destroy, is absolutely sickening.