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You argued that Israel are not “obliterating” Gaza. I simply pointed out to you that they are, by any reasonable definition.

As it happens, they are also committing a genocide. I suspect you won’t accept that, but I don’t care. History will look back on this and agree with me, not you.

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I argued that they are not committing a genocide and by every provable metric they aren't. I asked you a very simple question that you can't or refuse to answer, and I suspect its because if you answer honestly you'll come to the only logical conclusion. I'll also put to you that the only actual genocide that took place during this conflict was on October 7th.

> by every provable metric they aren't.

Why does the UN say they are? Do you think destroying the entire people in one day would be as easy to pass politically as what they gave done?

October 7th was inconceivably horrible. But if you do not consider the situation in Gaza a genocide (there are rational arguments that can be made to support that) claiming that the massacre that started the whole thing was a genocide doesn’t make much sense at all.

Was September 11 also a “genocide”?

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c...

Historians will probably have a range of opinions on this matter.

Of course, holocaust deniers exist too. Some of them do it even for free.

No they won't.

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