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It seems you are the one who doesn't understand the term. There's a very specific definition for it established by the UN: https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
Namely:
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
Nowhere does it say every member of the population needs to be murdered. And Israel is very clearly checking the first three boxes at the very least.
The intent to "destroy, in whole or in part, a ... group" is an essential component of genocide as defined by the UN. Civilian casualties as an inevitable consequence of warfare in a densely populated area are not genocide.
And Isreali officials have repeatedly stated they want Gazans gone, calling them human animals and the like.
And if that wasn't enough, there's this shit.
https://kbin.social/m/worldnews@lemmy.ml/t/588452/Israeli-Government-Mulls-Forcible-Permanent-Transfer-of-2-2-Million-Gaza
I think you're right, in that what Israel has been doing to Palestinians over the past 70+ years is more accurately described as "ethnic cleansing"
Call me when the UN makes a referral to the International Criminal Court. Until then this remains a law broken in your mind.
Are you implying that crimes only exist if they're reported/prosecuted?
Remind me in 2 weeks
Psst, lets not call that guy. His takes are bad and he's universally unpleasant.
As is TinyPizza
The ratio of votes seem to dictate otherwise but I know better than to present a "business" man like you with inconvenient facts.
So you're saying I should take into account fake karma points?
No, I'm saying there's no reasoning with you and I have my fun by getting my business on in the comments and disrupting your little circle jerk. :D
Now honk your nose, clown.
As soon as I figure out what that sentence means I'll get back to you.