President Joe Biden said Tuesday Israel’s prime minister needs to change his hardline government and support for the country’s military campaign is waning amid heavy bombardment of Gaza.

President Joe Biden said Tuesday Israel’s prime minister needs to change his hardline government and support for the country’s military campaign is waning amid heavy bombardment of Gaza. … “This is the most conservative government in Israel’s history,” Biden said, adding that the Israeli government “doesn’t want a two-state solution.”

It’s mind-blowing how thoroughly Netanyahu has bungled this. They had damn near the entire world in full support after Hamas’ horrific attack on Israeli civilians, and they’ve managed to lose it.

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention

    any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, 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.
    • samokosik@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      Okay, so the general issue with calling this a genocide would be that Israel does not systematically kill Palestinian civilians. There are no detention camps, they don’t purposefully bomb Palestinians with the aim of killing as many civilians as possible. Whilst I believe Israel can potentially do more to protect civilians, their main aim is not to destroy Palestinian population. At least that’s been the case of the last 70+ years.

      Also, based purely on numbers, there are no signs of elimination attempt.

      The most debatable point could be C but the result of terrible life quality of Gazans is mostly presence of Hamas because Israel lets money in and even supported Hamas (which is quite funny)

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Israel is holding like 4000 hostages they kidnapped without any process from the west bank.

        "The goal is damage not accuracy " are literal IDF words on bombing Gaza.

        They targeted infrastructure and cut off food and water.

        They have blocked ambulances to hospitals to force women to miscarry even before oct7

        They have kidnapped children for multiple years and tortured them in prison.

        Have you been living under a rock?

        • Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.websiteEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Have you been living under a rock?

          To be completely fair, if they’re in the U.S., the amount of propaganda flying around coupled with the complete lack of history being taught about the issue is more than enough to leave the average person unaware of these genocidal actions.