This is an excellent article. I found myself in a discussion with my sister the other day where i was trying to preserve the definition of “genocide” to distinguish between Hamas and the residents of Gaza who are caught up in this.

The issue is the BECAUSE genocide means something specific, as you defined, then the use if that word is a trigger to implement a series of actions. Using that word, getting leaders to sign on to that word, will necessarily stop certain actions and imprison certain people.

Thats why acceptance of using that word is the entire goal.

And that is why people care about that word….

And in any conflict, you will find racists, war mongers, and just awful people taking advantage of the conflict to live out their personal biases.

Does that mean, that overall, this conflict is about destroying a group of people with a specific genotype or belief system?

Or does that mean, that this is a response to a leadership that has controlled a population and that has a specific goal of accomplishing genocide, to what is clearly a superior power.

Like all global issues, i don’t have an answer for as long as the solutions are confined to nation state based solutions. I literally do not think they exist.

Until humans cast off the nation state ideal and start treating people individually, we are pretty hosed