Debate on Gaza Conflict and Genocide

Okay. Anybody who claims that there's a genocide going on in the

Gaza Strip does

not understand the word, the definition of the word genocide.

Then tell me, what's the definition of genocide?

A, a systematic destruction of every member

of a population.

Is Israel a system?

It... But no, no. They, they-

Are they on their way to completing and fulfilling a genocide?

No, there are two mil-

Potentially, if they kept on going the same way

that they're doing, could they

completely, completely eradicate-

Israel has the-

... the Gaza Strip?

Israel has, Israel has the military capacity to do

that, and they have-

Yeah

... certainly not done that, and the reason I can say they have not

done that-

But they are on their way

... is b- they, in, in... You know how long it would take them at

the current rate-

Well, well-

... to, to do that, especially given the fact that they

are completely targeting

terrorists?

Mm-hmm.

They, they-

Are they completely targeting ter-

Yes, yes

... are children terrorists?

The, the ch-

Are the children, the dead babies-

Targeting a t-

... the kids?

C- civilian collateral damage is not the same thing as targeting

civilians.

Is, but is that not a by-product of genocide?

No, that is not. Genocide is where you systematically destroy a

population

specifically because you wish to kill the civilian population.

That's not very pro-life.

That is, the, so a ge- a, a ge-

He's right. That's not very pro-life.

Well, it's, it, it, no, it turns out that Hamas is not pro-life when they hide

behind children and women.

No, and neither is Israel when they drop bombs

and nukes on Palestinian villages

and villages.

Okay, yeah. Are you suggesting that Israel's using nuclear weapons?

Is a bomb automatically nuclear?

No, not, not even remotely.

Y'all tell me. So that's what I said, a bomb.

And then, and a nuke. Okay, I- I- Israel, Israel uses as, as small

munitions as possible to target specific terrorists, okay?

They, they, they do this using drone technology.

They have to go through four layers of legal before any strike

is actually approved

by the upper layers of the Israeli government.

I've seen this actual process in action.

Okay.

I've seen the actual footage at Palmachim Air Force Base-

Mm-hmm

... in which Israel goes through the process

and shows exactly how-

Right

... they have to go through multiple legal

steps in order to green light a hit on a

terrorist, and they have called... I mean, they've released footage of this.

Right.

Them calling off particular strikes if they believe that the minimal amount of

civilian casualty damage cannot be, cannot be

maintained.

Okay.

So the, the, the, the basic idea, again, what you're talking about here is a

population of two million Palestinians who are living in the Gaza Strip.

The total number of, of war dead at this point,

according to best available

statist- statistics, is somewhere between 30,000

and 40,000 dead.

Okay.

That is not a genocide. It is a horrible, horrible war with horrible human

casualties.

To-

That is not a genocide. Definitionally, it is not

... to your definition, which I will have to disagree with.

But that brings me to my, to my next question.

Do you-

Name a war that isn't a genocide by your definition.

One that isn't a genocide?

Yes.

I, there's plenty genocides. They've happened.

I mean, and no, no, I, I ne-

I don't know what your point is

... my, my point is that you don't seem to be distinguishing

between the definition

of a war-

Mm-hmm

... and the definition of a genocide