Originally Posted by
Blue Skies
Disappointing the new govt limp response to the catastrophe unfolding before our very eyes in Gaza, especially as incredibly - the slaughter of innocent desperate civilians intensifies.
Ineffectual MP Paul Goldsmith, now promoted to National Minister of Justice refusing to call whats happening genocide, when we can see that's exactly what it is under the internationally recognised definition.
Under the International legal definition of the crime of genocide committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
Article 2 section C,
- Deliberately inflicting on a group of people conditions of life calculated to bring about its destruction in whole or in part.
- 1.7 million Palestinians forced to flee their homes, & flee again & again with no safe area to go, deliberately deprived of clean water, medicines, medical supplies even sterilisation of surgical equipment, food, the most basic hygiene, electricity & power, shelter, communication, the basics of life.
Indiscriminate bombing of schools, medical centres, refugee camps.
Over 47,000 Palestinian citizens severely wounded, almost 20,000 killed, 70% of them women & children, thousands of innocent children missing, thousands orphans.
After 2 months its estimated Israel has killed about 5,000 of the estimated 30,000 Hamas, but Hamas has probably recruited double that number because of & since the bombing & slaughter started.
If Netanyahu wants to eliminate Hamas, France's President Macron & others say this is going to take another 10 years.
When you hear people say Israel must eliminate Hamas, they think its something which will be over in months, it's ignorance.
International pressure must be brought to bear on both sides for an immediate ceasefire & negotiated 2 State settlement.