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Originally posted by taxwonk
Genocide is hard.
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Indeed. It is defined in the relevant Convention as follows:
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;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Killing an innocent in the course of killing a terrorist, while tragic, is not remotely akin to genocide.
Nor is attempting to wipe out an enemy military, such as Hezbollah.
The Apache, the Huks, the Hmong, and a very very lengthy list of others were victims of genocide. Hamas and Hezbollah cannot be, by definition.
eta: One could, however, make the argument that Hezbollah and Hamas are perpetrators of genocide. Are not their indiscriminate rocket attacks designed to destroy an ethnic or religious group in whole or in part?
