Hamas strike on Israel

How about we replace the term genocide with "murderous intent" and stop the pedantic back and forth about one word when it doesn't matter one whit to the people living and dieing in Gaza whether it's called one thing or another.

And before anyone decides to utter that what's happening in Gaza isn't intentional or murderous, please have another look at the pictures, videos and eye witness testimonials coming from the place.

The thing is that genocide is a legal term and it requires intent to commit genocide. That means that all too often we end up arguing about what Israel intends by it's actions.

The thing is, whatever the intent, it's pretty fcuking horrific. It may be a genocide, but it's definitely war crimes. Because even if Israel doesn't intend to cause the damage it's doing, at the very least it doesn't care about the harm it's doing.

I see videos circulating on line of the Beitar Tel Aviv survivors of the Amsterdam pogrom marching through the streets of Bucharest chanting "Death to Arabs" and "Fu*k Palestine". I sincerely hope no harm comes to these poor innocent scamps.

Ben Givir calling the Germans as being supporters of Nazi's. Looks like the place is imploding in on itself.

The average American is starting to question why a congressman from Texas or Tennessee is more devoted to Israel than their own state. When you have AIPAC even distancing themselves from lunatics like Randy Fine you know the reckoning is coming. Their is no logical strategic, commercial or military reason for the USA to support Israel the way they it does outside of blatent bribery and coercion. The USA is committing suicide with their support of Israel.

I haven't justified their actions, I have said that their actions don't amount to genocide in my opinion.

I have also signalled that if they and Trump actually move forward on the resettlement of Gaza option, that my opinion could change.

Netenyahu's real surname is Mileikowsky. Jewish settlers historically pick a Hebrew name when they move to Israel to identify them apart from weak 'diaspora' Jews. Ben Gurion's name was Grun (sorry, can't do an umlaut), and he declared that anyone who joins the IDF must have a Hebrew name. All the notable Presidents and PMs had European or Eastern European names. It's a great way to deny and eradicate your history. In Ireland, our names were changed for us whereas the Israelis use it as a badge of superiority and to mark out those who are beneath them, as befits an apartheid ethnostate.

It's not just Mileikowsky who wasn't from the region. They're all just migrants returning to their promised homeland.

https://honestreporting.com/the-israeli-prime-ministers-who-were-they/

Israel have proposed no future government for Gaza, neither Hamas or even an anti-Hamas alternative. Israeli commentators say they are utterly baffled by the lack of a plan for Gaza, apart from the mooted ethnic cleansing of the entire Strip.

It's not good enough to say 'Release the hostages and it all ends' (I've seen this message literally thousands of times from pro-Zionist accounts on social media). What happens next? What will Gaza be like in 2026 or 2027? Let's have some detail, otherwise that slogan is meaningless.

Out of interest, at what point would you actually consider they are moving forward with that? I ask as it seems to me they've been moving forward with this for quite some time, and Netanyahu's enthusiastic cheerleading of Trump's plan (an enthusiasm which I must admit actually surprised me in its sheer nakedness) only seemed to confirm that - not to mention the various other statements we have heard coming from Israel as to what the real end goal is here.

Whatever doubt there might have been as to Israel's genocidal intent (or at least, serious intent to commit war crimes), in my eyes anyway, was more or less stripped away with last year's attack on Rafah - where it seemed to become obvious that the Israelis were engaged in a focused campaign of making Gaza uninhabitable and life so unbearable for its people that (through a mixture of killing, destruction of infrastructure and living space, and people fleeing) the very concept of Gaza Palestinians ceases to exist.

If you need something more definitive than that, well, it might be worth considering that the international chorus of criticism (even if you consider the cries of genocide premature) might actually be the only thing preventing it from happening, particularly as regards the growing disquiet in the US wherefrom Israel draws its strength.

I've spoken to many relations and friends in the US and they nearly all have said how proud they are of the way Ireland has behaved on this issue. The tell me that in private the vast majority of people are horrified by Israel's actions but that speaking out is literal career suicide in many sectors.

If you see Hamas as simply an excuse, I don't know what to say.

A radical extremist terrorist organisation sent some of its brigades across the border to kill and capture Jews.

The only possible result was all-out war, formally declared days later. Every single country with a military, in such a situation would have gone to war.

Given that Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on earth would you not say that keeping losses to 60k is more indicitive of Israel's desire not to kill vast swathes of people that the opposite.

I mean, for the record, what are acceptable losses in such a theatre?

The British didn't flatten Belfast for obvious reasons. However, they did tell Collins that they'd flatten Dublin if he didn't sort Rory O'Connor out double quick time.

Cities get flattened during war. Look at Dresden, Mariupol, Stalingrad, the towns around Passchendaele. Nothing particulary unusual about it.

The war in southern Lebanon ended quickly when Hezbollah surrendered. The war in Gaza could have ended a year ago. That is competely on Hamas.