Johnritter608: Its such an incredibly high bar to be convicted of genocide, that i didn't believe anyone would ever be found guilty of it again because all they have to do was not say genocidal things, no matter how many people they killed. I've said for a long time that the political decision to attempt to starve the civilian population was baffling, there was nothing to gain from it and everything to lose and that will likely be the deciding factor in the case. I had many conversations with people early on in '24 who felt it was morally acceptable to starve Gazan children to death if it meant getting the hostages back quicker, that's around the time I knew people in Gaza weren't viewed as human beings anymore and that morality was gonna be tossed aside, which is how you get to this point.

abudlovsky: One ingredient of antisemitism is total lack of objectivity. Antisemites see everything through the prism of their hatred of Jews.

tsunamisam116: Alas, again the Irish have lost their marbles. What is it about war they do not understand? How does a government conflate genocide with fighting an enemy that uses it's people as a human shield?

Minister Ty Alexander: There is a very big disparity between what the world sees and what Israel sees. Whatever your definition of genocide is, what Israel has shown time and again in this war is that it obliterates schools, hospitals, and refugee camps, and has obliterated a majority of the buildings and infrastructure in Gaza so as to leave the people there destitute, while Israel claims innocence because they are targeting terrorists hiding among civilians. How much of Gaza was destroyed, Israel? How many noncombatants killed? And to kill how many terrorists in a population of millions?

I do not blame the world or Palestinian supporters for seeing what Israel has done, while I do blame Israel for serious lack of ethical and Godly leadership and very poor military discipline and tactics. Israel's failures have set the world against her because it is not hard to see unfairness and indiscriminate bloodlust in her ways. Why should the world believe commanders that are questioned about using high “collateral damage” methods when all they answer is, It’s because the terrorists are using civilians as human shields.

That excuse does not add up. If American troops were ordered to use munitions akin to “bunker buster bombs” and other extremely heavy munitions on hospitals and civilian refugee camps, what do you think the world would say against America? There is a big disparity with what is and what Israel sees and says.

Israel says, We’re at war with terrorists, while the world sees a campaign to rid Gaza and the West Bank of Palestinians that include plots to take over those lands while Palestinians still have homes there. I have heard Israel say, Palestinians can go to any country that will take them. Say that to any population of over 4 million that has lived in their land for generations and hundreds, if not, over a thousand years, and surely, the world will be angered. How can Israel dismiss the parallel to the Holocaust in such forced displacement?

When God promised Abraham and the forefathers that their descendants would possess the land forever, did He also say, all whom are not Israelite must be driven out or exterminated? Do not be too quick with your tongue in reply, for the command to exterminate all peoples of Canaan in the Holy Land is long past for the age long gone.

But what does the Torah [Old Law of Moses] say for you? Invite all among you to God’s appointed moedim (feasts), including the foreigner to your ways (non-Jews). And does El Elyon, God Most High, continue to command to this day? - You are not to endanger the life of your neighbor (Vayikra/Leviticus 19:16); You will love your neighbor as yourself (Vayikra/Leviticus 19:18); Do not plot harm against your neighbor, who lives trustfully near you (Mishlei/Proverbs 3:29).

Who are your neighbors, Israel? Does El Shaddai, God Almighty, say in this day, your neighbor only includes Jews and those who ally with you?