Its not hard to see that what occurred is a travesty of justice. Sadly Fed, there is no way around how disgusting this issue is. :m:
disgusting? Not in the least.
Mildly sickening maybe. A slight stomach ache or boo boo at the most.
You know what's disgusting? Some of the impoverished settlements in India. Some of those people consider good living to be a card board box over your head and a piece of "property" not covered in dung.
disgusting is a parent that sends a child off with enough c4 to destroy a tank in order to satisfy their fundamentalism.
This is not disgusting strawdog.
Gisgusting is a person that uses battery acid to get high. Disgusting is a nation with inflation in the thousands of percentage points. Disgusting is a nation that mows down thousands of their own citizens of their own same ethnic group for a slight disagreement.
To compare Israel's actions to the words "disgusting" is pathetic.
Any time you here the word "massacre" used in history as a single time and place from at least half a century ago you almost always see it in referance to the slaughtering of innocents in the numbers from hundreds to thousands at the very least.
Nowadays in referance to Israel a massacre qualifies as thirteen people. How is that a massacre? That does not even put a dent in the population.
People also have the gall to call what Israel is doing a "genocide". Tell me, how does a little over 1,000 dead in Palestine in the last conflict (of which most is armed men) count as a "genocide". In a couple of days in the battle of Midway we killed twice as many people. On Guadalcanal we killed nearly 30 times as many people. The nazis killed 13 million people.
1,000 is not a genocide, 100,000 is typically considered a genocide. And that is of woman and children and innocents.
How does this supposed "massacre" and "genocide" that Israel is committing even deserve to be branded as such. To term it as such is an insult.
Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.[1]
While a precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG). Article 2 of this convention defines genocide as "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; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."[2] Because of the insistence of Joseph Stalin, this definition of genocide under international law does not include political groups.[3][4]
The preamble to the CPPCG states that instances of genocide have taken place throughout history,[2] but it was not until Raphael Lemkin coined the term and the prosecution of perpetrators of the Holocaust at the Nuremberg trials that the United Nations agreed to the CPPCG which defined the crime of genocide under international law.
There are several stages of genocide. number 7 is extermination and number 8 is the final one, it is denial. Israel is debatably not even number 1. Number 1 is dividing it into "us and them". Sure you can cite the whole Gaza situation, but Israel gave Gaza and the west bank to the Palestinians as a gift, and a rather large one at that. If your trying to start the hatred of an ethnic group, than why give them a gift?
Murder is probably the only appropriate term to give to Israel's actions, and even than much of it is collateral damage. That tends to happen when you have enemy soldiers hiding behind hospitals.