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Ocasio-Cortez won't call Gaza war a genocide, another lying politician

Lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was recently followed and filmed by a group of protesters while out with her fiance. These protesters were demanding that she call Israel's intervention in Gaza a "genocide", to which she said she has, when she has not.

In January, Cortez avoided calling it a genocide by saying the empty, meaningless words: "I am appalled at the violence and the indiscriminate loss of life", and on the question of genocide:
"they’re still determining it. But in the interim ruling, the fact that they said there’s a responsibility to prevent it, the fact that this word is even in play, the fact that this word is even in our discourse, I think, demonstrates the mass inhumanity that Gazans are facing."

What about the fact that she can't, or won't, say it? The fact that she is only alluding to what other people think? The fact that she is still determining what would be wise to say. The fact, the fact...

This woman isn't an activist, she is a politician. She is thinking about her future, and to do that she must be a moderate, and she must have the support of democratic elites, and any Jews who donate money or help with future campaigns.

If she isn't pretending to care about a cause through misguided and insincere attempts at "speaking out" or "advocating", she is playing the politician and putting her career before anything else. Why would anyone care for her, or any other politician? All they do is think about what they say, who their audience is, and what will happen to them as they reach for power.
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specman · 51-55, M
Most politicians that are calling this a genocide are doing it for political reasons.

It is not genocide as far as exterminating the Palestinians. Israel could do a much better job if it was committing that kind of genocide.

However the Palestinians wish genocide on Israel. They can’t accomplish this so they will play the victim trying to act innocent and fool the international community. The truth is if the Palestinians were able to they would be the ones committing genocide.

I have no sympathy for Palestinians. Their goal is to commit genocide on all that are not Muslin.
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@specman it is a genocide. I'm not a politician just someone who tried to be objective.
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@specman What has to happen for something to be considered a genocide? According to the UN, just one of the following is enough to count as a genocide.

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.

Israel has done A, B, C, and D.
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@specman That's nice, but it's beside the point.

What has to happen for something to be considered a genocide?
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@specman Israel is a creation of the UN.
specman · 51-55, M
@hippyjoe1955 so? The UN is corrupt.
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@specman so is its creation Israel. No human being should be supporting the evil that Israel is built around and manifests on a minute by minute basis. The reason there are well over 30,000 and climbing dead Gazans is because Bibi wants to stay out of jail.
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hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@specman from people on the ground. You don't think carpet bombing a city kills people? Israel by its own admission is carpet bombing Gaza. It told every to flee to Rafah and now is attacking Rafah.
specman · 51-55, M
@hippyjoe1955 they gave Rafah notice to evacuate.
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hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@specman no Israel wanted a war. The whole Oct 7 thing is so suspect as to be laughable. The most sophisticated spy agency in the history of the world missed Hamas preparing? The very day of the attack the IDF was on stand down? When the attack happened the IDF carpet bombed their own people? The Israeli pilots were told to use all their hellfire missiles and then return for more. There were many Jewish buildings destroyed by tanks. Hamas doesn't have tanks. Just a few things that make you go hmmmmmm.
specman · 51-55, M
@hippyjoe1955 you are very wrong about that. You have been watching to much misinformation. Hamas is playing the victim with the media. Al-jazeera is in cahoots with Hamas
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@specman So you're saying Israel didn't tell the civilians to go to Rafah, then bombed Rafah? You're willing to commit to that take?
specman · 51-55, M
@BohemianBoo they warned them about the attack.
@specman But you know that's just for show, right?
Imagine if someone tells you that you have an hour to leave your country before it's blown up. Also, you're dirt poor and some of your family members are crippled because of the bombings. Would you be able to escape in time?
badlands · 22-25, F
@specman They are stuck in Gaza and have nowhere to go. What is the warning worth when they can't escape anywhere?
specman · 51-55, M
@badlands the could leave Rafah.
badlands · 22-25, F
@specman Where do they go?
specman · 51-55, M
@badlands out of Rafah if they were smart. Anywhere but there. Just leave or stay and whine I ain’t got no place to go and get killed. When you are in a war torn place you do what you got to do to stay alive.
badlands · 22-25, F
@specman More than half of Gaza has been destroyed, where are they supposed to find shelter? If they are exposed, they could be killed, if they are in a building, they could be killed. If the IDF decides there is a potential terrorist around, they kill a large number of civilians in their pursuit of them.