Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza? | The Ezra Klein Show

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• EL

  @eliranmishal8270 · 1 year ago

  Not allowing foreign journalists in, tells you all you need to know.

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• BR

  @brawndo1255 · 1 year ago

  Yeah let's debate about it for another five years. That'll show them.

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  @ssssss190-f7t · 1 year ago

  I don't understand how not allowing a single calorie of food for 78 days to be delivered to a population that you completely surround and control all entry/exit points is not intentional starvation.

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• TU

  @TuBaFl5H · 1 year ago

  What use is the term “genocide” if it is only applied retrospectively once the killing is done? While we hesitate over terminology, quibbling over timing and technicalities, the machinery of slaughter continues to grind on.

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• MO

  @mohammedalbadaai560 · 1 year ago

  As an Arab, watching you talk about this gives me hope in humanity. Thank you for not dehumanizing Palestinians.

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• NE

  @nesser7655 · 1 year ago

  Regardless of what the proper term for Israel's actions are, they are wrong.

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• HE

  @hellyeahgreg · 1 year ago

  Please interview Palestinian person from Gaza. There’s so many that need to be able to tell their story. Veterans for Gaza

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• GE

  @gerardmcgorian7070 · 1 year ago

  Maybe you could get your employer to acknowledge this on its Editorial Page.

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• IN

  @inuyashaxx · 1 year ago

  It doesn’t take an hour and 42 minutes to say “yes”.

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• KA

  @kateleee23 · 1 year ago

  It’s been a genocide for a very long time, Ezra.

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• CO

  @ComboBreakerHD · 1 year ago

  before i watch this pod i just want to remind that when Raphel Lemkin defined genocide and the conventions that followed, he did so from a perspective of absolute terror, he had lost 49 relatives to the holocaust. as such, it is worded deliberately to be a very low bar. it is not genocide when everyone dies, it is genocide when they try. it is genocide when they state their intent and take the very first act towards making it happen. that's why the term you kept hearing when we first began to debate this was 'prima facie', literally, "on first impression". that bar has long since been met - Yoav Gallant on 10/8, "no food, no water, no electricity". it caught him a warrant from the ICC. it only took one day. there is a genocide in Gaza, even if we have to debate it until everyone dies. FreePalestine.

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• ER

  @ErnestttYT · 1 year ago

  The intellectualizing and jumping through hoops of why this isn’t a genocide is impressive. Almost 2 hours of semantics when the simple answer is “yes, this is a genocide”

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