re: #157 Achilles Tang

Yes I should have said Hamas, not Palestinians. My mistake and you caught it. Congratulations.

As to “that” Israeli, he would certainly be guilty of mass murder, but unless the objective was to solve the problem by killing all of them, it would not be genocide. There is reason for respecting the meaning of words.

Please. If you’re going to be a pedant, be an accurate pedant. The definition of genocide is:

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;
() Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(e) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to
bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(rf) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

(my emphasis)
That’s per the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide — see .