The Genocide Convention, signed by both the US and Israel:
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
The Genocide Convention, signed by both the US and Israel:
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Tim's various reasons the Gazan War is obviously is not genocide were spurious, he made no attempt to seriously analyze the situation against the Genocide Convention. A serious analysis is not dispositive, what emerges is that it is a close call.
The Geneva Convention is more a set of guidelines than an actual ruleset abided by signatories. Russia signed the Geneva Convention, is a permanent member of the UN security council, and yet still bombs maternity wards and kidnaps children by the thousands. The UN is a toothless tiger and the Geneva Conventions are a dead letter at this point. The “Rules Based International Order” is only as strong as the countries with wealth and firepower willing to enforce it, and it’s come up short since the 1940’s. You might as well be invoking rules struck by the League of Nations right now.
The Genocide Convention, signed by both the US and Israel:
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Tim's various reasons the Gazan War is obviously is not genocide were spurious, he made no attempt to seriously analyze the situation against the Genocide Convention. A serious analysis is not dispositive, what emerges is that it is a close call.
The Geneva Convention is more a set of guidelines than an actual ruleset abided by signatories. Russia signed the Geneva Convention, is a permanent member of the UN security council, and yet still bombs maternity wards and kidnaps children by the thousands. The UN is a toothless tiger and the Geneva Conventions are a dead letter at this point. The “Rules Based International Order” is only as strong as the countries with wealth and firepower willing to enforce it, and it’s come up short since the 1940’s. You might as well be invoking rules struck by the League of Nations right now.