The Israelis certainly owed Brett Stephens’ favor.
Yesterday, the New York Times opinion columnist appeared on the pages of the US Records Newspaper to promote his latest crazy debate.
Don’t worry about how many global institutions, from the various UN agencies to Amnesty International, have determined that Israel is committed to doing just that. These are organizations that rarely tap on G-words, but Stephens knows well. And he will tell us why.
In the first paragraph of intervention in his time – it should involve trigger warnings to readers, possibly due to aneurysms – Stevens rebelliously demands: “If the intentions and actions of the Israeli government are truly genocide.
Of course, the Israeli military’s comprehensive conversion of most of the Gaza Strip to Kurabu appears to be rather “systematic” through bombings of homes, hospitals, schools and all other things. Regarding the inadequate insufficient “action” in Israel, Stephens has listed the official Palestine deaths of “nearly 60,000” within two years, making him wonder why there are “for example hundreds of thousands of deaths.”
He continues, “The first question that the anti-Israel genocide chorus needs to answer is why death is not high?”
On the other hand, of the many questions Stevens himself needs to answer, this is why he thinks that slaughtering 60,000 people is not a big deal. As of November 2024, Israel had killed at least 17,400 children in Gaza, but even this is clearly not “malicious.” Additionally, a study published in the Lancet Medical Journal over a year ago showed that Gaza’s true death toll could already exceed 186,000. What about “hundreds of thousands”?
Instead of waiting for an answer from the “anti-Israel Genocide Chorus,” Stevens presents himself. The definition of the terminology of the United Nations Genocide Convention is “as intent to destroy national, ethnic, racial or religious groups, such as,” and Stevens announces that he “doesn’t recognize evidence of intentionally targeting and killing evidence of Israel’s plan.”
Objectively, this is comparable in that there is evidence of a plan by a chicken slaughterhouse operator, and is ridiculous to intentionally end the life of the poultry within it. You won’t accidentally kill 17,400 children in 13 months. Also, if you don’t intentionally aim to kill civilians, you won’t bomb hospitals or ambulances repeatedly.
But it’s not just bombs. Forced star is also a genocide. And in that memo, another question Stevens answers is that intentionally depriving two million people of the food and water needed for human survival does not constitute an “intention to destroy” the group. Yesterday alone, Gaza health officials reported that at least 15 Palestinians, including four children, had died.
Since the end of May, more than 1,000 Palestinians have also been killed while trying to source food from the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Supported by Israel and the US, this demonic outfit not only concentrates many hungry Palestinians in a single location to facilitate reaping by Israeli forces, but also promotes the vision of forcing Israeli US-backed Palestinian population.
Stevens resigns to refer to Gaza’s “chaotic food distribution system,” but he claims “a soldier or strike where the wrong target or strike or strike suffers from a “bangled humanitarian scheme” or trigger. [Israeli] Politicians reaching for a vengeful bite are not approaching summing up to genocide. ”
Yet, in the war on the use of the G-word in the Gaza context, Stephens refuses to acknowledge that Israel itself is a genocide effort from the start. Zionists were well aware of the need to distribute the majority of Palestinian indigenous peoples, even before the official creation of the Israeli state on Palestinian lands in 1948. Approximately three-quarters of the million people have become refugees.
Since then, Israel has continued its fundamental foothold of genocide, working to physically and conceptually annihilate both the Palestinians. Certainly, the existence of Israel’s Jewish settlers-colonial state is based on “intention, in whole or in part, to destroy national, ethnic, racial, or religious groups.”
Anyway, forget about history and reality. Stevens warns us that the term genocide “cannot be cluttered in military situations that we dislike if it is to hold its status as a unique, horrifying crime.”
Speaking of orgy, the Israeli military has long been sleeping with the New York Times and other US corporate media outlets, and has been doing their best to disinfect Israeli atrocities in self-defense. But as Israel continues to carry out unique and horrifying crimes in Gaza, supporting a global superpower, Stephens’ massacre journalism is also unique and horrifying.
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