Personally, I don't give a shit who declared war on whom
Yes you do. You HATE Arabs and you crave for the IDF to eradicate them. You don't want to sound petty, murderous and genocidal, however, so you are more or less required to insist that unarmed Gazan civilian noncombatants somehow "started" the war, or that Iran suddenly decided to loan out Al Qassam for free, all to imply that Israel somehow did
not initiate a genocidal 2nd Nakba against unarmed civilian noncombatants.
Let me know how that works for you.
--even if I think it was Palestinians.
There is no Palestine. We're talking about Gazans. Israel HATES their Arab neighbors, especially the Gazans, because they are so close that the Israelis can still smell their odor and find it insufferable. You acknowledge that the Gazans have no capability to attack anyone, seeing as how they have no money and no army, yet you are required to OBEY Israeli propaganda that Gazans, not well-funded Iranian proxies, somehow initiated the war, somehow justifying the IDF to slaughter the lot of them ... as long as Israel occasionally announces that they took out "a Hamas leader." To that end, of course you don't care how many Arab children are wasted, alas, you want more, more, more. You actively celebrate Arab deaths. You're pretty shitty in that regard.
Nope. It's a genocide, initiated and perpetrated on the Gazans by the Israelis. The Geneva Conventions and the Convention against Genocide are being violated thoroughly by the IDF.
Show us some sources that Al Qassam isn't the military arm of Hamas
Right, you are asking me to prove a negative. Al Qassam is a radical, militant proxy of Iran, and Iran does not have its proxies doing anyone's bidding but the Ayatollah's. You are the one making the absurd assertion that Al Qassam is somehow submitting to the will of Hamas! You need to show this, and not by merely pointing to mere commentary by others who are equally mistaken as you are.
You don't know what the word genocide means
You are the one who doesn't know what the legal definition of "genocide" is, but you are about to learn. Israel, the United States and almost every other country is a signatory to
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and is henceforth required to adhere to this convention.
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
The IDF's genocide meets this definition in multiple ways with many counts each, ... and only one is sufficient. The Convention goes on to read:
Article III The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.
Article IV Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals.
Now you know. Israel signed up to this very definition, as did the United States, and they both signed up to punish all those who violate this Convention. The extent to which you disagree with this Convention is irrelevant.
The Contracting Parties,
* Having considered the declaration made by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its resolution 96 (I) dated 11 December 1946 that genocide is a crime under international law, contrary to the spirit and aims of the United Nations and condemned by the civilized world,
* Recognizing that at all periods of history genocide has inflicted great losses on humanity, and
* Being convinced that, in order to liberate mankind from such an odious scourge, international co-operation is required,
Hereby agree as hereinafter provided :
Article I The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
Once again, both Israel and the US signed up for this.
and you don't get to make up your own definition of it.
Exactly. You don't get to make up your own definitions.
This is delusional. It's beyond delusional.
It stands non-rebutted.
I've shown Hamas and Al Qassam are one and the same.
You have not. You provided merely an internet link to those mistaken propaganda purevyors who do your thinking for you. You need to show either the money flow or an announcement from Iran that they are allowing Hamas to use their proxies.
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