Aral Balkan
So let’s do some math:
Israel’s military estimates that out of the 13,000 or so Palestinians it has killed in seven weeks, 1,000-2,000 of them are Hamas fighters.
They estimate about 30,000 Hamas fighters in total and their stated goal is to wipe out Hamas entirely.
Given the current ratio of deaths, how many Palestinians will they have to kill to wipe out Hamas?
Answer: 195,000 - 390,000
(But don’t call it a genocide.)
Aral Balkan
@Bl4ckst4r Raz Segal begs to differ:
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/16/raz_segal_textbook_case_of_genocide
Bl4ckst4r
@aral yes please don't call it "genocide".
Gaza has become the hell on earth, every call for a ceasefire is completly sound, and still it isn't a genocide, there has been genocidal remarks from within the current goverment of Israel, but is an extreme and condemned positions inside of the israelian society. Genocide "can" be defined by numbers like you hinted at at your extrapolition of potential victims, but these victims aren't by intend. Who his clear in it's genocidal intend are Hamas and the iranian Regime and its telling that almost no one on the left is attributing this term towards them... in a post Holocoust world we need to be careful about these terms, even or especially in the realm of superfast socialmedia discourse, simply to much is at stacke.
(and please don't attribute the term "apartheid" towards Israel as well, leave it for the southafricans (background here: https://africansforpeace.com/reclaiming-word-apartheid/). To describe the ongoing tragedy of the palestinian people we can use better terms and we can find them, even when there are less flashy.)
We might agree that violence and therefore war needs it's flashiness of terms, while peace can only be laid in nuance.
Aral Balkan
@RodneyPetersonTalent That is my fear also.
RodneyPetersonTalentAgency
The death toll eventually will be well over half a million. Counting all the health issues from breathing in all that crap, the broken bones, the starvation, exposure to the elements.
They were already living in forced squalor with a population density equal to New York City and a 50% unemployment rate with no way out.
If you think they were pissed off before, the survivors are really pissed off now. With good reason. And millions of their Arab brethren are going to feel the same.
Aral Balkan
@raetherepublik Wow, you should get bent.
raetherepublik
@aral Wow, you should work for the CIA. You're intelligence is amasing!! God work!
Aral Balkan
@Properganda Oh yes, I definitely trust you, random anonymous account, than The Guardian newspaper.
Shoo! Go away now.
Properganda
@aral Better to first do some critical thinking…
—consider the source & how credible it is.
—look up the definition of #genocide
—research/fact check before regurgitating dis/misinformation.
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