Those points do not apply because there is no targeting.

UN clarifies that, in genocide, victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly.

Why do you think Ireland is trying to expand the definition?

The Gallant quote is from 2 days after the October 7 attack.

Occupation of Gaza?

Meanwhile…

The death toll in Sudan’s ongoing civil war is estimated to be significantly higher than previously reported, with studies suggesting that over 150,000 people may have died since the conflict began in April 2023. The majority of these deaths are attributed to violence, preventable diseases, and starvation, particularly affecting vulnerable populations in regions like Khartoum and Darfur.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crln9lk51dro

Doesn’t get as much attention because why? Muslim on Muslim? Brown on Brown? And yet it involves (unlike Gaza) systemic targeting of civilians based on ethnicity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_genocide

Obvious? You ignore the definition.

For starters Genocide is killing of people, targeted by ethnicity. Do you think that Israel are such bad shots that they can only manage to kill 2½% of Gazans (⅓ of them militants) while ⅔ of Jews were killed in the Holocaust?

ProPals like Ireland are trying to change the legal definition of genocide in order to make the false equivalence.

Her inevitable clashes within Labor will eclipse anything she experienced in The Greens.

Albanese declared the senator’s departure was a sign the Greens had become an unrecognisable party after they blocked housing bills last term and focused heavily on the war in Gaza.

And yet she is the only Greens member to have publicly used the slogan “From the river to the sea…”.

Regardless of one’s stance on Gaza politics, Albo is being disingenuous. He is merely gloating about the defection.

And why gloat? He still needs the Greens on board to pass legislation.

Senator Dorinda Cox called One Nation leader Pauline Hanson a “f—ing retard” in a text message leaked after she defected to Labor, showing the depth of anger toward her in the Greens

That’s petty of the Greens.

Yeah it seems to merely be a business decision, less about a conscience and more about avoiding losing more anti-trust suits.

Israel had 5 collapses before Netanyahu got back in.

If no one server carries all the parts of a multi-part, is that a legal loophole?

Sorry, but him speaking off the cuff is what makes many prefer him to the choreographed politicians.

I thought he was rambling when I saw transcripts (eg that story about a nuclear physicist uncle about 5 years ago) but when you hear it you realise the style is natural. In real life we do not complete sentences if the message has gotten through already. MAGA think we are stupid for needing it all spelled out for us.

Then there is last week’s speech at West Point which Liberals were laughing at because he went off on a tangent about some rich friend whose wife cheated on him. Well I went to the full speech to have a laugh but found it was a whole hour (impressive speaking time) and this was in the middle. He tied the story back to the topic by the end. Most of it was not weird. I didn’t endure the whole hour but the troops loved it.

Similarly Libs think he is an idiot for his yoyo tariffs but he is happy for us to get distracted by the comedians while he profits from all the insider trading this enables. Instability is profitable when you are the one who can predict the rises and falls each week.

He is a buffoon but he definitely hams it up for advantage.

Will they use AI to insert him into scenes wearing a superhero outfit? That will get his attention.

The Eulogy Song is definitely still relevant…

Diana died with Arab semen on her dress?

People are not “placed” on the floor that is what you do with bags, boxes and rubbish. But that was the word used by the Northern Territory police to describe the sequence of events to the media.

Of all the things that went wrong the journalist leads the story with a criticism of the grammar? People are “placed” under arrest, placed first in a competition, placed in a job etc

Tragically, painfully, I think it says a lot.

Desperate for a hot take? Exploiting the tragic death for a literary career beyond journalism? I admit to not reading the article so maybe I am being too harsh - am sure someone here will tell me if so.

Well I find him funny but refuse to watch after his dinner with Trump.

Was getting tired anyhow of his fixation on pet topics: Millenials, Covid, wokeness, Gaza - it isn’t about his stance (I can laugh at my own team) but it was kind of the same jokes being rehashed year after year and they were beginning to sound more like rants…

OK I see what you meant with your comment.

That is what much of MAGA admire about him: that he is at least being up-front about it.

The stock market insider trading is something Democrats are guilty of too, I’m sure, but his manipulation via yoyo tariffs is probably seen by then as him just doing it better.

And they would be laughing at how most of Liberal media seems to be oblivious to it, focusing instead on cheap laughs poking fun of how he can’t make up his mind. Comedians like Maher, Colbert and Stewart are especially suckers on this issue.

Am surprised his style hasn’t changed. I am not tired of the genre decades later though.

Also a little surprising the mainstream hasn’t adopted elements of it. I naively thought it would by now.

I followed the instructions. I don’t like those Arabic numerals so I used Roman instead.

Strange closing paragraph.

the highest they’d been since 1996 when 80% of Americans stated that they would live under an Islamic theocracy in exchange for a $50 gift card to Radio Shack.

I had Covid last week (my 3rd bout) and it was milder than any cold. Hopefully it is like that for others.

I only bothered RAT testing because I visit my elderly Mum daily.

Had 6 shots but last one was about 18 months ago.

Do you have an example of such violence in Gaza pre Oct 7 and post settlement withdrawal in 2005?

The blockading is because in that time Hamas and PIJ were sending missiles and suicide bombers into Israel.

There was retaliation each time. Disproportionate because it was meant as a deterrent (obviously it failed to deter though).