We (including you, unless you’d care to share some credentials) are all laymen here. Therefore, the logical thing to do is to look to the opinions of experts. The experts and scholars generally agree that Israel is committing genocide. The article even admits that (in the sentence I quoted above). Are you, like the article’s author, suggesting that your expertise trumps these experts and scholars?
I agree with their findings, it bears all the hallmarks of genocide. I just find it a bit pedestrian for the report (or anyone else) to not deal with the overall narrative when making that conclusion. Specifically, that what Israel inflicts on Gaza is disproportionate and illegal. Yet it perversely remains under Hamas’ control too. Not a feature of your usual genocide. Does anyone seriously doubt the situation wouldn’t immediately improve if Hamas surrendered and returned hostages? That doesn’t justify Israel inflicting high collateral damage, but it remains true. Israel punishes the population because a proportion of the population are Hamas jihadists. That’s unambiguously against international law. But it wouldn’t be happening if Hamas wasn’t holding 150 civilians hostage after invading Israel and murdering 1700 - which is also against international law. Calling for Israel to stop what it’s doing is a necessary intervention but is pointless if it doesn’t also find a method to make the instigator return their civilian hostages.
We (including you, unless you’d care to share some credentials) are all laymen here. Therefore, the logical thing to do is to look to the opinions of experts. The experts and scholars generally agree that Israel is committing genocide. The article even admits that (in the sentence I quoted above). Are you, like the article’s author, suggesting that your expertise trumps these experts and scholars?
I agree with their findings, it bears all the hallmarks of genocide. I just find it a bit pedestrian for the report (or anyone else) to not deal with the overall narrative when making that conclusion. Specifically, that what Israel inflicts on Gaza is disproportionate and illegal. Yet it perversely remains under Hamas’ control too. Not a feature of your usual genocide. Does anyone seriously doubt the situation wouldn’t immediately improve if Hamas surrendered and returned hostages? That doesn’t justify Israel inflicting high collateral damage, but it remains true. Israel punishes the population because a proportion of the population are Hamas jihadists. That’s unambiguously against international law. But it wouldn’t be happening if Hamas wasn’t holding 150 civilians hostage after invading Israel and murdering 1700 - which is also against international law. Calling for Israel to stop what it’s doing is a necessary intervention but is pointless if it doesn’t also find a method to make the instigator return their civilian hostages.