• bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    more of these examples of intent, including the media pushing for genocide as in your example

    You simply don’t understand the requirements of intent for genocide, dolus specialis.

    Incitement is not enough. There are people in Israel, who want a genocide, but it’s neither policy, nor are the acts conclusive.

    Funny how Israel announces a “complete siege” including no food and water allowed in, people start to starve as a result

    The numbers of death attributed to starvation in Gaza amounts to less than a dozen. Compare that to what happened at the same time in Sudan.

    Look, there’s undeniably a bunch of terrible stuff happening, but it’s not a genocide.

    Do you know the civilian to militant ratio on October 7th? 797 civilians, 379 militants. Around 2:1. So was that a very restrained and perfectly fine attack or all of a sudden is this argument totally fucking insane?

    A music festival is not a valid military objective. You seem confused about this idea.

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      You simply don’t understand the requirements of intent for genocide, dolus specialis.

      Maybe. Perhaps you can explain it to me? Why is the genocide scholar whose post I linked wrong, and you right?

      A music festival is not a valid military objective. You seem confused about this idea.

      I note you didn’t comment on the ratio. It was a rhetorical point, you said the 1:3 ratio is good and presumably that this is evidence against genocidal intent. So to continue, the military objectives were the militants killed, unfortunately there was some collateral damage. According to your logic this is a totally legit explanation. I think that is wrong in both cases.