Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ...
by naasking on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @08:50AM
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> Is the Gaza War a genocide? Two key features of the mortality data are consistent with that charge: first, unusually high mortality among women and children; second, the sudden and dramatic fall in life expectancy.
To be fair, you'd also see this if your opponents were using human shields and hospitals for military operations, which Hamas has been documented as doing. This is not so clear cut.
Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ...
by cholantesh on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @09:53AM
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That definition of 'human shield' is basically only used in this context by Israel and its advocates. If we adhere to it, the fact that Israel has military installations embedded in residential neighbourhoods ought to qualify, but it seemingly doesn't. And if one uses the most commonly accepted definition in IHL, Israel has a long history of participating in it. Is any of that fair?
Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ...
by naasking on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @06:46PM
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Having military installations in residential areas is different than housing soldiers and civilians in the same buildings, using hospitals as bases for military operations and using medical transports remove weapons. It's not even a close comparison.
Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 ...
by cholantesh on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @08:41PM
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>Having military installations in residential areas is different than housing soldiers and civilians in the same buildings
It doesn't especially matter how different they are, since Israel's rather arbitrary definition includes both of those behaviours. Just like their definition of 'soldier', which, per their use of administrative detention, includes children as young as 12, and 'base', for which a dozen rifles spread out on a prayer mat often suffices.
You seem disappointed. Anywho...
> Gallant was speaking less than 48 hours after Oct 7 when feelings were very highGenocidal feelings. Super normal.
> Even in Halavi's case, he might be a right-wing nutter
Nuts in highest military positions when warring with 4 or more states. Very normal, too.
> Bear in mind that Israel is a democracy with proportional representation resulting in a coalition government so you are essentially accusing a the majority of the population of supporting genocidal intent...
Perpetrating* a genocide, seems like.
https://original.antiwar.com/noah_carl/2026/01/07/is-the-gaz...