UN experts said in a report on Tuesday that Israel committed the crime against humanity of “extermination” by killing civilians sheltering in schools and religious sites in Gaza, part of a “concerted campaign to obliterate Palestinian life.”
The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel was due to present the report to the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council on June 17.
“We are seeing more and more indications that Israel is carrying out a concerted campaign to obliterate Palestinian life in Gaza,” former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, who chairs the commission, said in a statement.
A new Holocaust.
Supported by Germany, the US, Britain, but also countries like Argentina.
Curiously, this makes Germany and Argentina some of the few (if not the only, ever) countries which supported TWO Holocausts.
I think you are vastly underestimating the number of genocides throughout history.
If you are talking about modern history, then I don’t know. Maybe. Horrible nonetheless.
Which other Holocaust-level Genocides were an organised force very purposedly exterminated over a million people because of their ethnicity are there?
I mean, there have been lots of Genocides in History, some of the worst ones quite recently (for example the Rwandan Genocide), but ones were the machinery of the State set out to exterminate a population because of their ethnicity and involving such large numbers of civilian victim I can’t think of any other than the Nazi Holocaust (were they use gas chambers to exterminate a civilian population) and the Zionist Holocaust which Gaza is turning into (were they are using starvation and targetted bombings of civilian buildings and refugee camps to exterminate a civilian population).
The closest I can think of is how Ghengis Khan would conquer cities (when he came with his army, they either surrendered outright or if they didn’t he would conquer them and then kill everybody in it, and that was quite independent of ethnicity) and that never involved as large a number of people as Gaza simply because there weren’t as many people back then and cities were a lot smaller.
Even the kind of shit Britain did in their Empire never reached this level in terms of numbers.
I mean, if Israel stopped now, Gaza wouldn’t be a Zionist Holocaust (just a “mere” Genocide), but with the support of the likes of the US, Germany and Britain, plus with over 80% of Israeli population supporting the Zionist “final solution for the problem of Gaza” this is bound to become on.
So, yeah, if Gaza keeps going this way this will only be the second systematic mass genocide of a civilian population by a State power due to their ethnicity in History (so Holocaust-level) and Germany will have supported both Holocausts.
The genocide of Rohingya people is ongoing and has a similar number of dead and displaced as the genocide in Gaza
Good point - I hadn’t remembered what was going on in Myanmar since the Military Dictatorship took over.
That said, 6 months ago the estimated deaths in Gaza were already around 200,000 according to a study published in the Lancet medical journal (which differs a lot from the 50k “official” count, because the latter number has barely change in over a year after Israel destroyed most hospitals in Gaza were the dead were counted), which is well beyond the 43k upper estimation of deaths in the Rohingya Genocide in that Wikipedia entry, so “similar” is maybe not the right word.
My point still stands that Israel is on track to turn go beyond a “mere” Genocide and commit a modern version of the Holocaust, were the majority of the Gazan population will be killed (certainly the wish of over 80% of the Israeli population is all of them killed or expelled), and that population was over 2 million people at the start of the Genocide. This would make Germany one of the few, if not the only nation, which committed or actively supported TWO Holocausts
You are right. Spain did some pretty horrifying things in central America but not quite like this.
I never intended to imply that it wasn’t as important as it is. Just that humans suck ass.
The US was all for it until it was financially beneficial to get involved. Shit, we had our own concentration camps.
I don’t think the US was sending weapons to Germany to be used in murdering Jews as they are doing now for Israel to murder Palestinians.
If I remember it correctly the US was internally divided in who to support in the beginning of the war but wasn’t actually militarilly helping the Axis even before their Genocide of the Jewish People (and others such as the Roma People, who curiously are seldom talked about) became widelly known.
The situation now is vastly more clear-cut and beyond any doubt and the US keeps providing military and diplomatic support to the genociders even when the count of murdered babies has long exceeded the thousands (the list of babies one year old or younger murdered by Israel in the first 3 months of the Genocide was already 17 pages long).
In the scale of Evil, the support for the Nazis of part of the population and some of the power structures of the US early in WWII is not even in the same universe as the current level of American power structures support for for a widelly-know, clear as day, already legally confirmed, Genocide which is in the final mass extermination stage that will make it a Holocaust. This shit now is a close as it gets to commiting it without actually pulling the trigger.
Did I just see honest reporting from Jerusalem Post? What has the world come to?
What is even weirder is how most Western media barely reports on this.
Haaretz has had some surprisingly factual bangers recently too.
Are some starting to see the writing on the wall? Has their shame finally caught up to them? Do some want to salvage a shred of their humanity?
No. They want to be ahead of the curve so they dont look complicit when the tide turns. No morals here, just self interest.
You’re likely correct. Hedging their bets.
In the case of Haaretz I think they’re just mad at Netanyahu since he tried to fuck with them. I’m not sure exactly what he did, but I remember that after reading an article about him taking hostile action against them they started publishing more critical (read: truthful) reporting of the war, though it should be noted that for the most part they were never on team “Enter Gaza and kill all the Khamas!!!”.
So, I watched Satan’s Guide to the Bible. Um, this should come as no surprise to atheists but the complete extermination of Gaza is exactly what their bible says should happen. They are carrying out the word of their god, just like they apparently did millennia ago.
Who is they? What did they do millennia ago?
Der juden
Yeah you’re a racist bitch
Why do I still see articles with the headline “X claims Israel is committing genocide”? “Claims”? Really? And how is that “news”? If we can’t get over pretending it’s not entirely clear nothing will change.
A UN report is more significant than a news headline. Plus they take their time doing deep work which takes time
Is it? Does the UN have a long history of being listened to?
Any asshole can write a blog post. And the UN has its warts but it’s kept nuclear Armageddon at bay
You just gonna jinx it like that?
Correct, but if they need that much time to come to that conclusion they’re basically useless.
Agreed. But difference between the people doing the work believing it, and the time the scientific method takes to prove hypotheses. Come on, nobody working in that group is pro genocide sandbagging their work.
Did they use the the H word or is that a word too far?
