Pope Francis calls for investigation to determine if Israel’s attacks in Gaza constitute ‘genocide’

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1. About time world religious leaders spoke up.

   Yes, we are committing a genocide.

   Myself and other IDF veterans have been speaking out about the war crimes we witnessed – https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/testimonies/videos

2. This whole ‘are they or are they not committing genocide’ is such a distraction. It doesn’t matter.

   What matters is they are carrying out war in a truly barbaric way that is killing tens of thousands of innocent people. That’s all that matters. Any label that’s assigned to it is irrelevant and a way for Israel to wriggle out of responsibility as the wrong question is being asked.

   ‘Are you committing genocide?’ leaves so much room for argument and debate and results in them and their supporters finding elaborate ways of saying no they aren’t and so all is good.

   ‘Are you killing tens of thousands of innocent people?’ leaves zero wriggle room for them to escape accountability.

   We need to stop obsessing over is it or isn’t it genocide and instead frame it differently using basic facts, instead of something which is subjective and nothing more than a label.

   Leave it to historians in future years to determine if it’s genocide. Right now the focus should be on preventing civilian deaths and suffering, regardless of any labels attached to it.

3. If we go by the strictest definitions, it’s hard to make the case that this is a genocide

   It’s an ethnic cleansing, not a genocide, with the constant retreat into smaller territory

   Now with the upcoming annexation of the West bank it will be even clearer

   Trying to prove that it’s a genocide that isn’t won’t help anyone, it’s better to accuse them of what it is, which has a very clear definition

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