Thanks for the earnest reply. I’m not convinced, but it’s refreshing not to just get downvotes and insults.
Trying to remove a people from their land Armenian genocide-style is also genocide
The thing that made the Armenian genocide a genocide is that the Turks killed somewhere between 0.6 and 1.2 million of a population of 1.5 million Armenians in Turkey. The forced relocations were just an implementation detail. If forced relocation on it’s own was genocide, then the Soviets would be responsible for like a dozen genocides.
There has always been a strain of Israeli politics that has been striving for “greater Israel”. It’s never been dominant, but I think there’s a real concern that a genocide (in the traditional sense) might occur there, and I think you could claim conspiracy to commit ethnic cleansing. Israeli politics is ugly, and the fundamentalists are scary. Still…calling the current conflict a genocide is misleading and hyperbolic as hell IMHO. But that’s what it’s called all the time, without question, and people get furious if you ask what, specifically, they’re talking about.
It reeks of propaganda. I can’t take people seriously when they casually throw the term around. Talk about the terrible things that Israel actually is doing instead.