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Why is the US still sending an endless supply of arms to Israel without conditions? (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago by GutsBerserk@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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The law ( the Leahy Law) requires that the US vet any foreign military receiving US arms. However, that doesn’t happen with Israel

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[+] SCB@lemmy.world -14 points 11 months ago

fucking oppressed palestinian people, how dare they resist genocide, right?

There is no genocide of Palestinians. Less than 1% of Palestinians have been killed in this conflict

[-] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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;

b. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

c. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

d. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

I’m not totally convinced that this is Israel’s intent—most of what I’ve seen points to a brazen and sociopathic indifference typical of 7th graders and goofy “strongman” populists like Netanyahu alike—but the percentage of the population killed does not factor in determining whether it is genocide.

[+] SCB@lemmy.world -7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They've killed 0.6% of the population, counting enemy militants.

Gaza is 5x the density of Mosul, in which the US (who quite obviously was not committing genocide) killed ~10,000 civilians.

Things can be shitty and not be genocide.

[-] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Again, I really don’t to weigh in on whether or not it is genocide, if only because I’m not gonna change anybody’s opinion here. Alls I’m saying is that the qualifications for genocide do not include the destruction of the entire, or even the majority of, the population.

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