Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Borax Man Newsgroups: uk.legall,ukk.politics.misc,alt.revvisionism,soc.culture.israel Subject: Re: Apartheid Israel ... Followup-To: talk.politics.misc Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 13:29:52 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:29:53 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="543f9e0e0cf7b0a5c01c27ae2409059e"; logging-data="3705407"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+IFi60/N6V/UdgO5hCZlLl5O2hVFMTiOo=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6WVZNa/F8P6XdWrVzsdwC1+pYjc= Bytes: 2064 ["Followup-To:" header set to talk.politics.misc.] On 2024-04-04, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 18:31:09 +0000 (UTC), Tall Henry wrote: > >> Not a very successful genocide, with the number of Muslims in Israel and >> Palestine multiplying five-fold in the past 75 years. > > That’s why the Genocide Convention says “... intent to destroy, in whole > or in part”. Israel is certainly quite vigorously trying to do that. The > fact that it won’t succeed is by the by: the massive human suffering it is > causing along the way still has to stop. Yes, the convention consider it a crime to put programs in place which are intentded to destroy, in whole or in part. The argument that there is no genocide because there aren't fewer Palestinians yet is an odd one. Does the international community have to wait until a program of genocide is completed before they can condemn?