If we accept that Israel's response is genocidal, then it still wouldn't matter how many were killed, because the issue is the act of genocide. If the response is not genocidal, then it still doesn't matter how many people were killed, because it matters what Israel should be doing in response to some number of Israeli citizens being killed.
The proportion of dead shouldn't matter to what type of response needs to happen, especially if we are asserting that genocides are wholly unethical.
Youโre making some good points from the perspective of an individual with a consistent set of views being applied to, I guess, this and other discussions. However I think that perspective misses the point of the article. Iโll try to summarize what I think the point mostly is:
For everyone out there looking at this situation from a perspective which isnโt an israeli or a palestinian there is a different breaking point where they will go from seeing the situation as itโs always been presented in the mainstream media and start to see it for what it is (a genocide).
This breaking point is different for every person. For muslims nearby, they saw the crisis and the refugees first hand and have long hated israel for their actions. But in the West thatโs just not the case. The default position is โthe jews deserve a homeland, thatโs where it has to beโ. They donโt see it as a an invasion followed by a colonization amounting to a slow genocide. That is, until they start to see first hand what israel justifies in its pursuit of โa homelandโ.
In the last year alone weโve seen
Tens of thousands of woman and children murdered (war crime)
โisraeli victimsโ as often as not being more accurately described as โvictims of israeli friendly fireโ
Gang rape of prisoners being sanctioned by superiors in the govt and army and supported by mass demonstrations of the population
Severe torture unto death of doctors and other aid workers
Targeted assassinations of the people currently negotiating ceasefires, conducted in other counties, like Syria and Iran
Open discussion by israeli leadership of the โGreater Israelโ plan to invade and seize parts of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, etc based on nothing but their delusional racist fantasies
And on and on and on, the war crimes are almost too many to list - and thatโs just in the last year, this has been happening (to various degrees) for 7 decades. The point of the article is that given how insane the zionists have gotten recently, more and more people have been forced to reckon with reality. And this reckoning doesnโt look good for the modern state of israelโฆ
Youโre making some good points from the perspective of an individual with a consistent set of views being applied to, I guess, this and other discussions. However I think that perspective misses the point of the article. Iโll try to summarize what I think the point mostly is:
For everyone out there looking at this situation from a perspective which isnโt an israeli or a palestinian there is a different breaking point where they will go from seeing the situation as itโs always been presented in the mainstream media and start to see it for what it is (a genocide).
This breaking point is different for every person. For muslims nearby, they saw the crisis and the refugees first hand and have long hated israel for their actions. But in the West thatโs just not the case. The default position is โthe jews deserve a homeland, thatโs where it has to beโ. They donโt see it as a an invasion followed by a colonization amounting to a slow genocide. That is, until they start to see first hand what israel justifies in its pursuit of โa homelandโ.
In the last year alone weโve seen
Tens of thousands of woman and children murdered (war crime)
Thousands of booby trapped (war crime) devices exploded indiscriminately (war crime)
โisraeli victimsโ as often as not being more accurately described as โvictims of israeli friendly fireโ
Gang rape of prisoners being sanctioned by superiors in the govt and army and supported by mass demonstrations of the population
Severe torture unto death of doctors and other aid workers
Targeted assassinations of the people currently negotiating ceasefires, conducted in other counties, like Syria and Iran
Open discussion by israeli leadership of the โGreater Israelโ plan to invade and seize parts of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, etc based on nothing but their delusional racist fantasies
And on and on and on, the war crimes are almost too many to list - and thatโs just in the last year, this has been happening (to various degrees) for 7 decades. The point of the article is that given how insane the zionists have gotten recently, more and more people have been forced to reckon with reality. And this reckoning doesnโt look good for the modern state of israelโฆ