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With the question of whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza now before the International Court of Justice, the Biden administration has struck a tone of glib dismissal.

Top Israeli political and military leaders have themselves helped to bolster the case against their government. The words of Israeli officials are being offered as evidence of intent: from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging Israelis to “remember” the Old Testament account of the carnage of Amalek (“Spare no one, but kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings,” reads one passage); to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowing that “Gaza won’t return to what it was before — we will eliminate everything”; to the minister of energy and infrastructure pledging, “They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave this world.” By speaking openly about destroying Gaza and dispersing its residents, Israeli leaders have publicized what has, in other cases of genocide, been hidden or denied.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Regarding the source you provide wiki says:

is a Washington-based non-profit press monitoring and analysis organization that was co-founded by Israeli ex-intelligence officer Yigal Carmon and Israeli-American political scientist Meyrav Wurmser in 1997

and according to Fathi (2010). p202 "Memri.org – A Tool of Enlightenment or Incitement?"

MEMRI has understood that politics today is waged in the media and it fulfills its role as a public relations, lobbying and policy-making instrument with the highest professional standard.

So having an Israeli lobbying machine talking about Hamas social media strategy, won't work for me.

[and all this while you keep upvoting yourself?]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Cool, it has links to the primary source there as well, but I thought it would be less useful to link that as I assume you don't read Arabic.

[and all this while you keep upvoting yourself?]

Damn right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Cool, it has links to the primary source there as well, but I thought it would be less useful to link that as I assume you don't read Arabic.

What you say does not make any sense ~~in the context of this conversation~~. I'm out.

[gentle reminder of a gentle text on the topic of upvoting oneself]

edit: the strikethrough

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm sorry you seem to be confused by the notion of citations in the form of links to primary sources.

Haters gonna hate. (I'm upvoting this post, too.)