u/SirCrapsalot4267

I'm so tired of this rhetorical sleight of hand where if you can poke holes in the genocide legal threshold which is genuinely high and will ultimately be decided by the ICJ, that somehow becomes a full exoneration of everything Israel has done to Palestinians since 7 October (or prior).

No. Stop. This is bullshit.

Even if you personally believe the genocide charge doesn't hold up legally, you still have to contend with 75,000+ violent deaths documented by independent peer reviewed surveys, at least 56% of whom were women, children and elderly. 94% of hospitals damaged or destroyed, a birth rate that collapsed 41% in two years, a population under siege, systematically denied food, medicine and fuel on video, hundreds of repeated strikes on displaced person camps, aid convoys, and clearly marked civil defense, journalists, and aid/healthcare workers. Every credible human rights organization on earth, Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, the UN Special Rapporteur and various commissions, MSF, Israeli NGOs like B'Tselem, all are documenting systematic war crimes and crimes against humanity using the same methodology they apply everywhere else to every other conflict from Rwanda to Sudan.

War crimes are war crimes. Mass atrocities are mass atrocities. "It didn't clear the legal bar for genocide" doesn't make tens of thousands of dead children suddenly acceptable, it doesn't make the deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure legal, it doesn't make collective punishment of 5 million people in Gaza and the West Bank okay. That's fucking bananas.

The genocide debate is legitimate and worth having but using it as a get out of jail free card for documented atrocities is intellectually dishonest and frankly obscene. The bar for genocide is high by design, it was never meant to be the minimum threshold below which anything goes and totally cool. What the fuck.