I'm sorry what part of bombing residential areas with dumb bombs that flatten everything with broad areas accounting for so much of the 20,000 casualties is ambiguous? Or shutting down the water. Blocking sufficient shipments of food. Bombing Churches, Mosques, and other cultural sites? Last night in Jerusalem Lists of Palestinian Christians who have died in the attacks were shown. Small wonder the Church was filled with an outpouring of support for the Civilian Palestinian population, with emphasis on the large numbers of infants, children, and women.

Healthcare workers targeted. IDF preventing ambulances from reaching wounded. including children. Food insecurity is perhaps two weeks away from people reaching the wasting stages of starvation. At that point, you can't just feed them, it becomes a medical condition that requires special treatment.

But wait, Hospitals have been bombed. There is only one that is marginally functioning and not at full capacity, the Press being targeted. Nearly 100 Killed.

I submit to you that if you look at a dictionary definition of genocide, it would be appropriate to show a picture of Palestine as an example.

But you don't have to rely on such a broad definition. The international rules of engagement for war will overlap nicely with what I have outlined.

You cannot just bomb the hell out of a city and say you are eliminating Hamas. Combatants must use all means to protect innocent civilians. That is an obligation they have. So targeting homes, churches, bakeries, water purification plants, health care facilities, and so on, are indications that what you are doing is genocide. The displacement of 1.9 million civilians is a horrific price for the innocent.

In Reality, Netanyahu is very stupidly creating a fertile ground for Hamas going forward for decades into the future.

Netanyahu is Hamas on steroids.

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Michael A Wells - INFP personality type
Michael A Wells - INFP personality type

Written by Michael A Wells - INFP personality type

Held captive in the Midwest but I love San Francisco, black coffee, chardonnay and diet coke. My vice is SF Giants baseball. I'm the poet you are running from.

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