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Re:They Thought They Were Free, by Milton Mayer, an Excerpt by Ste_Tokyo on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @07:52AM (#42947807)
The Hutus killed 800,000 Tutsis in a few weeks. I agree that is a genocide.

The Arabs of the Western half of the Palestinian mandate refused to accept a state in 1948, and decided instead to repeatedly start wars and latterly Intifadas against Israel. It was their own choice. The result of that choice is the deaths you mention. That is not genocide. It is a result of their own stupid choices. They are obsessed with trying to murder Jews, but thankfully not very good at. Hamas’s constitution explicitly calls for the killing of all Jews in Israel. That would literally be a genocide.

Congratulations on siding with the genocidal maniacs, Jew haters, and murderers. Hamas thanks you.

Re:They Thought They Were Free, by Milton Mayer, an Excerpt by maeln on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @08:38AM (#42948290)
> The Arabs of the Western half of the Palestinian mandate refused to accept a state in 1948

A state that was imposed on them. And which state are you even talking about ? If it is the U.N proposition for the partition of Palestine, Israel also never accepted it and disregarded it entirely.

> That is not genocide.

Mass displacement of a population, destroying their civil infrastructure, kill civilian on mass is the definition of genocide.

> Hamas’s constitution explicitly calls for the killing of all Jews in Israel.

And that is why Hamas is a terrorist organization.

> Congratulations on siding with the genocidal maniacs, Jew haters, and murderers. Hamas thanks you.

I never sided with Hamas.

You are just spouting hatred. A sad continuation of this conflict.

Re:They Thought They Were Free, by Milton Mayer, an Excerpt by Ste_Tokyo on Thursday February 06, 2025 @01:15AM (#42959589)
The state was not as a fact imposed on the Palestinians. After centuries living under empires, they were offered a state for the first time ever by the UN in 1947 but turned it down. Instead they decided to go to war to destroy Israel and have been trying to do so ever since. That was their choice. It has worked out very badly for them because they keep making the same stupid mistakes driven by Jew hatred.

The current war was started by Hamas and they knew exactly what the outcome would be - thousands of deaths of their own people. They sacrificed their own people to use it as a political tool by which they aim to get the political support of useful idiots like you against Israel. It is a sick policy carried out by sick people. This is not genocide; it is a war, started by Hamas who wanted the results we see.