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Posted this in another thread, gonna post it here, too.
"Looking another human being in the eye, making an independent decision to kill him, and watching as he dies due to your action combine to form one of the most basic, important, primal, and potentially traumatic occurrences of war."
It's an unpopular take, but I recommend everyone read the book "On Killing" by Dave Grossman. It's obvious that what Israel is doing is very much a genocide, but I stand firm in my opinion that their boots-on-the-ground infantryman are also victims of the Israeli political machine.
Humans are not made to kill other humans. And those who fight the wars of the mighty, are those who are among the ones who suffer the most.
War is really stupid. And it's astonishing how we continue to be such a stupid species. Given how far we've come, one would think that we've finally realized how much humanity could achieve if we were working together instead of killing each other.
By the way:
The international court of justice has not ruled on this yet, but continues to observe and investigate whether such genocide allegations could apply.
However, I am not a fan of anyone who practises or participates in wars and so easily tolerates the deaths of innocents.
There's literally video of a child getting cut down, then when help comes for the child they blow them up with a bomb. That's some psychopath shit.
That's indeed unbelievably cruel.
This does not constitute a genocide though.
It does if there is a pattern of killing children and those who respond to medical emergencies. We all know they target the ambulances. Seems there's a terrorist behind every kid, uninhabited graveyard, and hospital. History will not be kind.