Biden administration thinks Netanyahu may not last politically

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Highlights: Joe Biden and top aides have discussed the likelihood that Benjamin Netanyahu’s political days are numbered — and the president has conveyed that sentiment to the Israeli prime minister in a recent conversation.

Biden has gone so far as to suggest to Netanyahu that he should think about lessons he would share with his eventual successor, the two administration officials added.

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It seems you are the one who doesn't understand the term. There's a very specific definition for it established by the UN: https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

Namely:

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;

Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

Nowhere does it say every member of the population needs to be murdered. And Israel is very clearly checking the first three boxes at the very least.

The intent to "destroy, in whole or in part, a ... group" is an essential component of genocide as defined by the UN. Civilian casualties as an inevitable consequence of warfare in a densely populated area are not genocide.

I think you're right, in that what Israel has been doing to Palestinians over the past 70+ years is more accurately described as "ethnic cleansing"

Call me when the UN makes a referral to the International Criminal Court. Until then this remains a law broken in your mind.

Are you implying that crimes only exist if they're reported/prosecuted?

Remind me in 2 weeks

Psst, lets not call that guy. His takes are bad and he's universally unpleasant.

As is TinyPizza

The ratio of votes seem to dictate otherwise but I know better than to present a "business" man like you with inconvenient facts.

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