Is the Gaza genocide on the same level as what happened in the Warsaw Ghetto, certainly not. However, it is already surpassing Kosovo/Bosnian War genocide by a huge margin.
The Warsaw Ghetto specifically targeted Jews and not other Polish people. Kosovo/Bosnia sought to create ethnically pure territories.
You can’t start a war from a homogenous country on a country that will crush you militarily, start losing brutally, refuse to surrender or give up, continue to fight, and then hide behind the word genocide as though the other country doesn’t have the right to continue fighting until you lose.
Yet, now that they've decided to stop this game and finally deal with hamas once and for all, i'm certainly not going to blame them.
European Jews do not have the right to steal Palestinian land.
Why can't Israel simply surrender and admit defeat in the war that they started? They never got the Palestinians to surrender. I don't see any signed surrender documents? Israelis have always existed in a war zone of their own creation, with every home required to have a bomb shelter.
Right now it appears that Israel is headed towards defeat, with more nations recognizing the existence of Palestine.
Jews have spent 2000 years running away from people who wanted to kill them, and now they've decided to stop.
Current promises are more about domestic politics than anything else.
> Genocide generally means to try and eliminate a group. It’s not about the total quantity of people killed.
To be exact, it's an effort to destroy a group as a whole, or a _part_ of it:
"The 1948 Genocide Convention defines genocide as any of five 'acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group'".
https://web.archive.org/web/20230927024940/https://www.un.or... (Legal definition of genocide by United Nations)
You can commit genocide even if you don't intend to eliminate the whole group as it was the case with Nazi Germany 'final solution' or 'Vernichtung' policies towards the Jews. Nanjing Massacre by Japanese is a textbook example of genocide, but the Japanese didn't intend to eliminate the Chinese population as a whole - they targeted a part of it and it is still genocide.
Out of 2 million population of Gaza Strip 62,000 were already killed, of these 80% civilians and 30% children (18,500 children!). Add to this intentional starving of Gaza, banning and murdering journalists. If this doesn't conform to the definition of genocide then I don't know what does.
Edit: typos