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It strikes me wrong to call this a genocide as a survivor of an actual genocide. So i have maybe a narrower definition of the word but i feel obligated because of my experiences to remind to being very careful with this word

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"Israel ‘undoubtedly’ committing genocide says Holocaust scholar Amos Goldberg". So you are perhaps wrong even if you have survived a genocide.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-undoubtedly-commit...

Genocide survivalship isn’t something it’s passed though generations, otherwise pretty much every person on Earth is a genocide survival.

If you want to get technical, sure the UN didn’t put the rubber stamp on it, but I think the more important thing is a strip of land where most buildings are reduced to dust, dozens of thousands of people are dead and millions starving. Even putting aside the morality for a second, what is the practical objective of all this?

You're aware that the person you're responding to could be a direct/first-generation survivor?

I'm am, but following Nature's rules that's becoming very unlikely even if we see more and more of these "survivors" on the Internet lately.

Please do cursory research [1] before confidently asserting that the only living survivors of genocides must be impossibly old and confidently leveling personal attacks against people claiming as such by calling them liars.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides

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