• Kalkaline @leminal.space
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    10 months ago

    I don’t think 20+million people have been killed in that conflict, so the scale isn’t quite there. I do agree it’s a genocide with a false pretense of defensive military operations. Israel needs to slow it’s roll though because without US backing it doesn’t exist in the region.

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      10 months ago

      It doesn have to have exactly the same number of people die. It’s a genocide and they’re literally trying to kill all of the Palestinians. It’s not about matching numbers, it’s about the definition.

      • Kalkaline @leminal.space
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        10 months ago

        It’s like no one is reading my second line. I don’t disagree that it’s a genocide. An unimaginable 20+million died because of the German extermination in WWII. The numbers are a poor comparison, everything else matches up.

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          10 months ago

          No lines after the first one. Make it any more correct. A holocaust is a Hebrew term referring to a sacrifice in which the offering was burned completely on an altar.

          There is no way in which it was appropriate to use within the context of world war II. That is inappropriate to use now. After all, Holocaust is not the Hebrew term for 20 million.

          I virtually agree with most of what you said after that first sentence. The question is why did you feel the need to post that first sentence however.

    • zik@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      It’s going to be a couple of million when all the displaced people starve to death.