Lately, the concept of \"genocide\" has been trivialized in a very irresponsible manner, simply ignoring its legal nature.<\/p>\n
What the Rome Statute says about the crimes of genocide<\/big><\/p>\n Article 6 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court<\/a> classifies as genocide a series of acts \"committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such<\/strong>.\"<\/em> The first of these acts is the killing of members of the group, but there are also other crimes aimed at achieving the disappearance of the group. During the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazism, each and every one of the conditions cited in that article<\/strong> regarding the extermination of the Jewish people were met.<\/p>\n Is a high death toll a reason to talk about genocide?<\/big><\/p>\n It should be noted that a high death toll is not sufficient reason to affirm the existence of genocide<\/strong> in legal terms, although obviously, if we are talking about millions of victims it is obvious to assume that these conditions are met. As W. van Mourik points out in Bilanz des Krieges<\/em> (Ed. Lekturama, Rotterdam, 1978), Germany suffered 3.64 million civilian casualties in World War II<\/strong>, but I have not seen anyone calling this a \"genocide.\" In fact, these deaths are attributable to Hitler's dictatorship, which started that war<\/strong>, a regime that committed the aforementioned crimes of genocide during the Holocaust, which was not an act of war, but the planned extermination of millions of people.<\/p>\n However, in the Srebrenica massacre (2007) 8,372 people were murdered<\/strong>, almost all of them men, including children, adults and the elderly. All the victims were Bosnian Muslims.<\/strong> The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia classified the events as \"genocide\" because its perpetrators \"deliberately and methodically eliminated them, solely on the basis of their identity\"<\/em>. It was a clear attempt at extermination<\/strong>, even if it only succeeded in wiping out a small part of Bosnia's Muslim population.<\/p>\n Those who have committed crimes of genocide are the Hamas terrorists<\/big><\/p>\n What is happening in Gaza right now is not a genocide, but a bloody war started by Hamas,<\/strong> a terrorist organization that launched a massive terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023. That Hamas attack could indeed be classified as a crime of genocide<\/strong>, since in its founding charter, that organization advocates the extermination of the Jews<\/a> and the atrocities it perpetrated in that attack clearly correspond to that purpose: the cruel and ruthless murder of unarmed civilians, including children and babies<\/strong>, in one of the most horrendous massacres seen since the Holocaust.<\/p>\n Unlike Hamas, Israel has repeatedly called for the evacuation of civilians from areas of Gaza where it carries out its military operations<\/strong>, and has even issued advance warning of its attacks through various means to ask civilians to evacuate, an evacuation that Hamas systematically prevents because it wants to use these civilians as human shields, which is a war crime<\/strong>. If there are currently many civilian casualties in Gaza, it is something attributable to Hamas, just as the German civilians killed in World War II are attributable to the nazis.<\/p>\n In the entire history of modern warfare, the Israeli army is the only one that indicates where it will attack to facilitate the evacuation of civilians<\/strong>. No other army has done this in an operation to seize a certain territory. To call this \"genocide\" would mean calling all the Allied offensives of World War II the same<\/strong>, in which massive aerial bombardments and artillery attacks against civilian populations were carried out without any advance warning, as part of military operations.<\/p>\n A hoax launched when there were more deaths in Israel than in Gaza<\/big><\/p>\n One might ask: When was this hoax accusing Israel of \"genocide\" started?<\/strong> What evidence did those who made this accusation have? Thanks to the internet, these things are now relatively easy to track. On October 10, 2023, just three days after Hamas attacked Israel<\/strong>, Spanish communist MP Enrique Santiago published this<\/a>:<\/p>\n En las guerras lo importante es acabarlas y corregir sus causas.<\/p>\n Solo garantiza la paz cumplir las resoluciones de Naciones Unidas: que cese la ocupaci\u00f3n y el genocidio y #Palestina<\/a> sea un estado viable.<\/p>\n Nuestra solidaridad con todas las v\u00edctimas, palestinas o israel\u00edes. pic.twitter.com\/Orr857G5V4<\/a><\/p>\n — Enrique Santiago (@EnriqueSantiago) October 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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