Why is the US still sending an endless supply of arms to Israel without conditions? | Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
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The law requires that the US vet any foreign military receiving US arms. However, that doesn’t happen with Israel

The law ( the Leahy Law) requires that the US vet any foreign military receiving US arms. However, that doesn’t happen with Israel

  • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world
    51·
    11 months ago

    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; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

    b. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

    c. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

    d. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

    I’m not totally convinced that this is Israel’s intent—most of what I’ve seen points to a brazen and sociopathic indifference typical of 7th graders and goofy “strongman” populists like Netanyahu alike—but the percentage of the population killed does not factor in determining whether it is genocide.

    • SCB@lemmy.world
      29·
      11 months ago

      They’ve killed 0.6% of the population, counting enemy militants.

      Gaza is 5x the density of Mosul, in which the US (who quite obviously was not committing genocide) killed ~10,000 civilians.

      Things can be shitty and not be genocide.

      • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        Again, I really don’t to weigh in on whether or not it is genocide, if only because I’m not gonna change anybody’s opinion here. Alls I’m saying is that the qualifications for genocide do not include the destruction of the entire, or even the majority of, the population.

        • SCB@lemmy.world
          18·
          11 months ago

          Any sane look at the situation makes it obvious it is not genocide

          • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world
            31·
            11 months ago

            And I’m still not trying to argue with you on that. I’m just saying that the numbers you’re citing do not support your case. There are most definitely situations where killing 0.6% of a population would be considered genocide.

          • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
            48·
            11 months ago

            Raz Segal is an associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University and the endowed professor in the study of modern genocide.

            TIL A Jewish professor of Holocaust and genocide studies is insane.