Israel are going to start WWIII

To what end? Martyrdom? Because I can't seen any scenario where the UN engaging militarily with Israel doesn't end very badly for the small number of UN peacekeeping forces there.

Ah ffs. This is such waffle.

What about just "normal people with empathy"? What about that cohort?

Most people don't even know what Postmodern Left means!

You're drowning in your own spoof.

I don't expect an answer...

I certainly wouldn't characterise any genocide in terms of "lameness" - it's either genocide or not.
As you said yourself, Israel is doing a bad job of it. In that case, would you be happy with people saying the Nazis did a good job of it?

I certainly wouldn't.

And once again, the definition of genocide does not include any reference to "population fall". If it did, sure, the warmongers would have a target number of the population to kill and simply not exceed it thus avoiding the moniker of a Genocide State.

I do wonder if posts denying even the possibility of genocide by Israel are simply preparing the ground for an ICJ judgement against Israel?

You'd to have to surmise it's just their anonymous personas that take over them on Boards. Zero justification or honour in what Israel are doing.

Being against the slaughter and destruction that Israel are engaging in at the moment is not a matter of "right" or "left". It's a matter of right and wrong.

Genocide or not - The isreali leaders are showing themselves to be murderers, right up there with the russian leaders. They are indiscriminately and deliberately targeting civilians in their thousands, destroying civilan infrastructure, killing and maiming children, attacking UN bases, and generally being reprehensible scum in their campaigns to expand their territory. You would be thinking there is a lot of oil buried under that land or some other valuable minerals given the US backing of the murder and killing.

I don't see how any normal person with an ounce of empathy could justify their actions in any way. I do not condone or excuse the actions of hamas and hezbollah and i also find their actions to be disgusting and out of step with what normal people in a normal modern society should tolerate.

They are all guilty of many crimes, but Isreal is by far the worst of the three in terms of the current situation.

It may or may not be genocide, but the action by the IDF is disgusting. Defending them is as bad.

Why are UNIFIL even there? Hezbollah spent the last 11 months firing rockets into Israel with total impunity. If their job was to be peacekeepers, they utterly failed.

That isn't true, but lets pretend it is.

That gives the Israeli Regime the right to try and murder UN peacekeepers?

2nd question is there anything you won't defend them doing?

No. Because it includes culture, ethnic and language considerations too. For example what's happening to the Uyghurs is considered to be a genocide. This is because the population is being reeducated, cultural building are being destroyed, language is being destroyed etc. It's not just about killing people. It's about destroying a culture.

Postmodern Left, are they playing at Electric Picnic next year?

Surely when it comes to genocide intent is a major factor, because numbers alone can't establish anything.

Six million Jews killed in the holocaust was irrefutable genocide, in that it was the expected outcome from a targeted extermination of Jews across Europe which was only ended by military defeat.

Whereas the countless more millions who died in say, the Mao famine in China isn't genocide, because the deaths were a byproduct of the original intention, not the original intention.

I'm not saying Israel isn't committing genocide, but the bar for genocide isn't as simple as excessive civilian deaths or population charts.

Israel being too accepting of high civilian casualties while trying to destroy Hamas isn't the same as Israel specifically targeting civilians with the sole intent of killing them. And just to pre-empt anyone, no that's not saying that civilians death are fine or acceptable.

Ultimately the ICJ will rule on whether what's happening constitutes war crimes, or genocide, or neither.

The genocide tag is thrown around too lightly. As you said, the ICJ will rule on that and Israel will be cleared pretty quickly. Deep down Hamas supporters know that Israel isn't targeting civilians. Hamas has been using human shields in conflicts with Israel since 2007. They've been very open about that the fact that it is the Palestinian people’s religious and national duty to serve as human shields, in order to serve the resistance and support its cause.

Sounds like the tanks are knocking down walls of the peacekeepers base also now.

Strange how some posters don't seem to want to address this at all today. I'd say if an Irish peacekeeper was injured or killed by the idf they would deflect away talking about definitions of genocide, the Holocaust or their favourite topic antisemitism.

Every israeli accusation is an admission.