And, I guess you do realize Uygur people are Turks right? I mean as in Turks in Turkey or Ottoman? Genocide and war are different things. By that logic would you call what Russia is doing in Ukraine a genocide ? Sure, they are both barbaric and bad beyond belief, but they are two different things. And trust me, Turkish people are not happy with Uygur people (our brother and sisters) being killed or oppressed right now either.

Why ignore the rest of the world, though? USA is only one country.

I tend to agree, the G word is used too freely

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Istg y'all are dumb. I don't hate jewish people, my best friend is jewish. I don't hate isrealos either. I hate zionists. The us media is biased. Have any of you actually suffered the consequences of Israel? No. You don't know what it's like, while I and my family and thousands others do.

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You’re allowed to hate Jews or anyone you like. Your brain, your choice. No need to invent lies

How on earth is that a lie!!!

UN: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: ✅ Killing members of the group; ✅ Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; ✅ Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; ❓Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (not sure yet, but Russians did bomb a Maternity ward) ✅ Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

@Gin. No tonic, you seem to confuse single events with a executed big plan. The bombing of a maternity ward happens in war, depending on the circumstances this can even be allowed by the rules of war. Or if those were violated it's a war crime. A genocide would be if maternity wards were targeted all over the country, civilians shot on sight or interned to be killed. This is not happening at all. By the numbers we have, and we have to be very careful about these because they can't be verified, the losses of civil life in the war in Ukraine is less than in any other war so far. So according to the official numbers in that war soldiers take great care not to harm civilians which is exactly the opposite of a genocide. I don't care what side you root for, what ideology you follow. You are free to have any believe you want. But if you try to bend the known to fit your agenda I'll call you out on it. It is very important to follow scientific standards - to whatever that evidence leads to.

Legally it takes years to name something a genocide. However, all the signs are there. If it's not on paper yet, doesn't mean it's not happening. US Institute of Peace: https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/09/russia-committing-genocide-ukraine

No, they are being Russia. They are fighting for their own benefits and killing people for that along the way. They are not executing a genocide campaign. Please do not confuse the two. One is evil yes, but the other is something much worse. Please do not brush the pain of people that have gone through concentration camps with the same one you use for this. Yes, killing people with bombs and hitting a maternity ward with a bomb that was fired hundreds of meters away is evil. But do not compare it to people who had to burn bodies their friends and family after carrying them into a pit and removing gold teeth etc. One if evil enough, but the other is incomprehensible.

I totally agree. As someone who heard horror stories from first hand, genocide is a word that I've always regarded as truest evil. Please let us not cheapen the horrors that people have gone through by calling everything bad as genocide.

I think everyone on this particular one is missing the political and social sides of the situation. Western world is against Russia, and sees Ukraine as part of their European culture. This creates a feeling of unity against a common enemy (well at least a disliked country). Thus, along with political incentives, this war is taking much more attention than any other similar conflict. As people have reminded there were much worse situations around the world (and there still are) that does not have nearly 10th of the attention of the public as Ukraine/Russia war. And going so far as to call this a genocide is very very disrespectful to those who have suffered through a real genocide. Please try to remember, war, any kid of war is ugly. And bigger the war, more ugliness you'll see in people. You'll even see individuals in power who would commit/order atrocities during war time that would not be acceptable by their own governments. This does not always equate to genocide. War is the worst.

"and dozens have happened since WWII ended."

Israel is the last refuge for Jews in the entire world, after the world murdered half of them. They’ve lived in that land continuously for thousands of years, the country was created by the UN, it’s been defended by Jewish blood and fwiw “God” promised it to them. It’s a tiny country with 12 Nobel Prizes while the entire rest of the Middle East has 13 Nobel prizes. All “Palestinians” who remained and did not abandon the country when it was at war became Israeli citizens. The ones who abandoned the country were rejected as refugees by surrounding countries and “the Jews” set up refugee areas for them so they wouldn’t all die

Why can't they just peacefully co exist as seperate countries without actually killing and oppression ??I mean the state of Israel was established in 1948...but;It was originally Palestine, all I can say is that" the oppressed became The oppressor "

Yep, that is the sad part. Both people have a claim to the land. But who gets the land? The ones with the claim from thousand year ago? Or the ones that have been living there since? Who will you side with? Poor people who are being oppressed or the rich people who have invaded their lands? Terrorists who throws rockets into civilian population or the civilized people who are just trying to live in their ancestors lands? Jews who have been killed, tried to be exterminated and oppressed or Muslims who sends suicide bombers? Muslims who cannot even visit their holly places to pray whose lands are being forcibly taken away by an enemy whose power cannot match or expansionist Jews who are taking more and more land from poor Muslim people. See? Everyone is right and everyone is wrong at the same time. They both have very understandable hatred towards each other and it is not easy to put aside past hostilities and start afresh. It just is no in human nature. Wish we could be more evolved.

You don’t understand the significance of that place on earth do you? Israel, and specifically Jerusalem is the holiest sight for the three most significant religions in the world. These religions however have fundamental disagreements that are engrained into their culture and society. The question of “why can’t they just get along” is pretty obvious. What most people fail to understand when criticizing Israel is that is is far far easier to be an Arab in Israel than it is to a Jew in Palestine. Israel attacks out of defense, Palestine is the aggressor, but war is also messy.

I suspect that if normal people were left alone, they would soon work it out. But there are corruption, bigotry and power mongers on both sides.

Usually when two countries in conflict are left alone, one kills the other. “Work it out????” What history book are you reading?

it's impossible to call Palestine the Aggressor without referencing how the situation developed or how Israel has behaved in the occupied territories

Then why the killing, bombing in Gaza explain that!!!!!!

you are wrong on virtually ever level.

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Not currently but there has been genocidal policies in place in the past within the time frame given. Australian Government tried to end Aboriginal people by implementing Governmental policies designed to breed out the black and destroy culture. They took our kids, they made it illeagal to marry an Aboriginal person if you were Aboriginal. The last recored massacre of Aboriginal people was in the 50s where nothing cane of it because Aboriginals were still considered fauna and pests. It was all written into legislation so it was a systematic effort to destroy a people

fair points, not really amounting to genocide but still despicable