ICJ Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide Without Cease-Fire

Re:ICJ Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide Without Cease-Fire by kar5pt on Friday January 26, 2024 @04:32PM (#39148759)

Have you read through their case? It's pretty weak in my opinion. They seem to think that any war with a high number of casualties and insufficient humanitarian aid counts as genocide. By their standard the US committed "genocide" against Japan in WW2, arguably Germany too.

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Re:ICJ Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide Without Cease-Fire by sydd on Friday January 26, 2024 @05:15PM (#39149393)

By todays standard it would be a genocide. How do you think people would react if e.g. Russia nuked 2 large cities in Ukraine leading to 100K+ deaths?

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Re:ICJ Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide Without Cease-Fire by goatlover on Friday January 26, 2024 @05:19PM (#39149464)

It would be a prelude to WW3 with an increasing likelihood of nuclear escalation. In which case cities in Russia, Europe and the US would be at risk.

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Re:ICJ Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide Without Cease-Fire by mkoubaa on Friday January 26, 2024 @07:54PM (#39151121)

That isn't my reading of the case

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Re:ICJ Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide Without Cease-Fire by Symbiote on Friday January 26, 2024 @06:17PM (#39150194)

> By their standard the US committed "genocide" against Japan in WW2, arguably Germany too.

Germany, yes? That's the primary example of genocide in the 20th century.

"The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II." (First sentence of Wikipedia.)

(I think widespread bombing of cities is a different crime.)

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Re:ICJ Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide Without Cease-Fire by nerpderp82 on Friday January 26, 2024 @08:55PM (#39151594)

As well as its own people. But we are talking about Gaza. The genocide that the Third Reich perpetrated was much larger than the 7 million murdered Jews. At least 5 million others were exterminated, mental patients, gays, Roma, prisoners of war and many more.

This doesn't even start to address the 8.7M military and 19M civilian deaths from the Russians.

The Holocaust sucked, but the Zionists in Israel cannot continue to use their monopoly on suffering from WW2 to build their apartheid state.

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Re:ICJ Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide Without Cease-Fire by bart_spoon on Friday January 26, 2024 @09:09PM (#39151685)

The person isn’t saying that Germany committed genocide during WW2, which is obviously true, but pointing out that by the above definition of genocide, the US committed genocide against Germany and Japan during WW2.

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Re:ICJ Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide Without Cease-Fire by rsoto2 on Saturday January 27, 2024 @01:18PM (#39158198)

The geneva convention is very clear about what constitutes a genocide. I would suggest you read it before chiming in.

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