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Anteaterking posted...

Regardless of whether you think there should be negotiating or not, if you don't think that Hamas would agree to terms short of the expulsion/eradication of all Jews from Israel than you're just willfully deluding yourself.

At which point, you're tacitly admitting that you know that Hamas is using that as rhetoric, at which point we should be more honest about whether you truly believe the attacks were genocidal or are just using that language because Israel has been accused of genocide.

Whether Oct 7 qualifies as genocidal is ultimately not the biggest issue here. It's literally just a debate about what specific word gets used to describe it.

It was an atrocity, whether or not it met the bar for "genocide".

And whether or not it met that bar, it does not justify Israel's actions since then, and anyone claiming otherwise or bringing it up irrelevantly is doing so out of support for Israel's own atrocities - which have long since exceeded Hamas's on Oct 7th - nothing else.

And unlike Hamas, where it's likely but uncertain, we can be 100% confident that Israel's intent is genocidal in nature.