'Genocide implies an intention to destroy a National or ethnic group'.Not the sad but inevitable consequences and casualties when a sovereign state such as Israel has to fight to repel attacks on it by another state such as Palestine.Such as (1) that of the Turks with regard the Armenians - 'In 1915, during World War I, leaders of the Turkish government set in motion a plan to expel and massacre Armenians. By the early 1920s, when the genocide finally ended, between 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians were dead, with many more forcibly removed from the country'.or (2) Turkey's repression the Kurds - Said revolt: 15,000–20,000 to 40,000–250,000 civilians killedArarat revolt: 4,500 civilians killedKurdish-Turkish conflict (1978–present): 6,741 to 18,000–20,000 civilians killedor (3) the Chinese regarding to Uighurs 'Since 2014, the Chinese government has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang which has often been characterized as persecution or as genocide. There have been reports of mass arbitrary arrests and detention, torture, mass surveillance, cultural and religious persecution, family separation, forced labor, sexual violence, and violations of reproductive rights'.or (4) in Rwanda regarding the Tutsi and Hutu.'The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred from 7 April to 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. Over a span of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were systematically killed by Hutu militias. While the Rwandan Constitution states that over 1 million people were killed, most scholarly estimates suggest between 500,000 and 662,000 Tutsi died. The genocide was marked by extreme violence, with victims often murdered by neighbours, and widespread sexual violence, with between 250,000 and 500,000 women raped.These are true examples of genocide in my view.Oh and yes not let us forget the genocide of 6,000,000+ Jews by German Nazis.It is pretty appalling how those who I am sure bask in the glow of their progressiveness in supporting the Palestinians from the comfort of their Putney armchairs, use the word genocide so sloppily, casually, deceptively and misleadingly to make a political point.
John Hawkes ● 31d