Palestinian Reverend Munther Isaac to U.S. Faith Leaders: If You Are Silent, You Approve of Genocide

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17. People need to read the entire statute, not simply the parts that tend to confirm biases.

According to Article 2 of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as

Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/genocide


Genocide is a crime of specific intent.

Genocidal intent requires that acts must be committed against members of a group specifically because they belong to that group

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/genocide

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Very early on, Hamas had it within its power to release the hostages and surrender or arrange for safe passage to any one of the of the terrorist supporting or terrorist adjacent countries in the region. Had they done that, there would be no war.

And if Israel truly had genocidal intent against the Palestinian people, wouldn't they begin by expelling the 2,100,000 Palestinian/Arab citizens of Israel, including the one who sits on the Supreme Court and those who sit in the Knesset?

The narrative doesn't track.


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NSC’s John Kirby: "Israel isn’t trying to wipe the Palestinian people off the map. Israel isn’t trying to wipe Gaza off the map. Israel is trying to defend itself against a genocidal terrorist threat. So if we’re going to start using that word, Fine. Let’s use it appropriately.”

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ICJ “didn't decide claim of genocide was plausible” nor “that there's a plausible case of genocide”