Genocide under a different name. Nice one.
Scorched Earth is when you destroy your own infrastructure as you retreat.
Thank you. I figured whoever posted it just decided to call it that, but nope… Unfortunately it’s also right there in the article. I don’t understand why they’d use it when so many other established terms are way more suitable, for example Carpet Bombing.
What Israel is doing is fucked up, but it’s not scorched earth.
It’s eye catching and evocative for a mainstream audience so of course they used “scorched earth”.
You’re right. But it still describes well the situation in Gaza.
People understand that in this context it means that the homes and businesses of Palestinian have been destroyed to the point that they’d need start all over again and that this is a collective punishment against the Palestinians which is a war crime.
