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- Intent, which is what I’ve been trying to explain. “Kill the buffalo, kill the Indian”.
- Population has dramatically increased since ‘67. Hard to argue that it’s “destr[uction]” when the population is markedly higher. Compare that to the plains Indians after the deliberate destruction of the buffalo.
Denial of national aspirations is not the same thing as genocide, and to conflate the two does the Palestinian cause no favors.
We’re not going to agree and I have other things I need to do today. We’ll have to respectfully disagree that unnatural deaths alone constitute genocide.