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Genocide is being committed in Gaza by Israel

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Babs03 Tue 16-Sept-25 17:35:59

Agree that the Israeli government have condemned the hostages to death and their families to suffer a bereavement that could have been prevented.
Going all out to bomb Gaza City will ensure this happens.

Babs03 Tue 16-Sept-25 17:32:48

I also wouldn’t indict Israel, am sure some Israelis support the action being taken by Netanyahu but there are those who probably don’t. Is the government that need to be indicted.

Whitewavemark2 Tue 16-Sept-25 17:23:30

I’m not convinced that citing a whole country is terribly clever.

Of course individuals will be complicit, just like Nazi Germany there were people who were undoubtedly complicit, but the west in its wisdom did not charge the whole of the German population

Doing this will bring grief and possible hatred. It isn’t right.

valdavi Tue 16-Sept-25 17:17:44

Maremia - it is just.
I know there've been many protests, but the Israelis who elect Yoav Galant and Netanyahu must share some of their views.
The genocide has been carried out by the IDF.
I hope the 3 named as inciting the genocide will be tried in due course, but 'Israel' is committing genocide, that is what is happening.I wish they weren't, but-

Maremia Tue 16-Sept-25 16:54:32

It is such a pity that 'Israel' and not 'the Israeli Government' has been indicted.

AGAA4 Tue 16-Sept-25 16:46:12

Netanyahu is ignoring his own people. Some are camped out by his home hoping to stop this carnage.
They know the hostages have been forgotten as he flattens Gaza city.

KaylieSipes Tue 16-Sept-25 16:35:32

I don't officially participate in the policies or enjoy them. But I understand they are really harsh...!

Babs03 Tue 16-Sept-25 11:30:14

The world is waking up to the fact that there is no longer any possible justification for what the Israeli government are doing but only the US president can do something about it by cutting all funding and arms to Israel. And that would be Trump, who just wants to get his hands on some prime real estate in Gaza.

Whitewavemark2 Tue 16-Sept-25 11:15:56

British Jewish lady on the phone, “the children in Gaza, remind me of the Holocaust”

Her fathered survived in the camps because he was given help - we must give help to these children.

Listening to her my eyes fill with tears.

Whitewavemark2 Tue 16-Sept-25 11:11:03

So a “super Sparta” eh.

No wonder the stock exchange crashed.

GrannyGravy13 Tue 16-Sept-25 11:02:22

The line has been crossed many times over the last months.

What started out as a reaction to the events of 7/10 is now out of hand.

Personally I have no idea how it will end or who has the cajunas to stop Netanyahu.

paddyann54 Tue 16-Sept-25 11:02:08

Israel has ignored UN resolutions re their appalling treatment of Palestinians for decades.They won’t stop now.
I,ve been marching WITH Jewish people in the Scottish Support for Palestine for a very long time .I hope with all my heart that someone somewhere can bring an end to the suffering these people have endured
I am not a supporter of Hamas…but sometimes desperate people go down a wrong route when no one has listened for a long time.As was see in other countries ,Mandela?

Whitewavemark2 Tue 16-Sept-25 10:58:52

The latest outrageous offensive is being launched where many more lives will be lost.

Listening to a Jewish woman telephoning from Israel describing the horror that Israeli are feeling at the actions of Netanyahu.

Netanyahu gave a speech last night which was so awful in its content that it has caused the Israeli stock exchange to crash, and many Israelis are out protesting on the streets.

LizzieDrip Tue 16-Sept-25 10:47:41

And yet the world watches😢

History will be the judge of this horror.

Whitewavemark2 Tue 16-Sept-25 10:45:32

Israel (not not just the Israeli government) is guilty of genocide

Definition
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Whitewavemark2 Tue 16-Sept-25 10:16:17

4 of the 5 conditions are fulfilled.

UN report.