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With the question of whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza now before the International Court of Justice, the Biden administration has struck a tone of glib dismissal.
Top Israeli political and military leaders have themselves helped to bolster the case against their government. The words of Israeli officials are being offered as evidence of intent: from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging Israelis to “remember” the Old Testament account of the carnage of Amalek (“Spare no one, but kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings,” reads one passage); to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowing that “Gaza won’t return to what it was before — we will eliminate everything”; to the minister of energy and infrastructure pledging, “They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave this world.” By speaking openly about destroying Gaza and dispersing its residents, Israeli leaders have publicized what has, in other cases of genocide, been hidden or denied.
See, the disconnect here is that you don’t know the many, many journalists and foreign representatives in Gaza right now, who don’t rely on either Hamas or Isreal for their witness testimonies.
It’s this arrogant assumption that the world needs either representative to make heads and tails of the situation.
Not only that, but the many, many, many depositions, since the days of Mark Twain. If all that is Hamas, I wanna know where they hide their time machine.
So IMHO your position is flawed.