Are the Israeli Government guilty of Genocide?

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In my opinion: The Israeli government is a fascist entity, driven by far-right religious fanatics, led by a war criminal, who are racist and the equivalent of Nazis.
The huge number of war crimes against the Palestinians, including indiscriminate shooting, bombing of civilians, missile strikes on hospitals and massive destruction of civilian structures, along with starving children and depriving the population of food and water amounts to GENOCIDE!!!
That is on a par with what the Nazis did in the holocaust!
I am not alone in stating this and that does not make me Antisemitic. I have nothing against Jews.

I cite this:
The question of whether the treatment of Palestinians constitutes genocide is a complex and ongoing debate.
Accusations of Genocide:

Various groups, including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, have declared that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide, citing systematic attacks, dehumanization, and deliberate conditions of life that threaten the survival of the Palestinian people.

Legal Framework: The 1948 Genocide Convention defines genocide as acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Scholars argue that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza align with this definition, particularly given the mass killings, dehumanization, and denial of basic necessities.

International Response: In January 2024, the International Court of Justice issued a provisional ruling that found there is a plausible right to protection from genocide in Gaza, requiring Israel to take measures to prevent such acts.1
Ongoing Legal and Human Rights Analysis: The UN Special Committee has also reported that Israel’s military actions in Gaza are consistent with the characteristics of genocide, highlighting the catastrophic impact on Palestinian lives.

The situation remains fluid, with ongoing legal and human rights analyses being conducted to determine the extent of these accusations and their implications.

Savages From The Dark Ages

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Savages From The Dark Ages

Savages from the Dark Ages

                In the guise of religious fanatics.

Want to put us all in straitjackets

                Using obscene tactics.

Stabbing, shooting and torturing

                Anyone whose does not believe.

Brainwashed religious morons

                Offering no-one a reprieve.

Conditioned from birth

                To believe in an intolerant tale.

As if killing for a fictitious god

                Would save them from fictious hell.

Beliefs from the dawn of time

                Persist to this day

As babies are abused –

                Imprinted with the same old cliché.

Brought up on texts

                From Ignorant times

They go out primed

                To commit horrendous crimes.

We’ll fight for free speech

                And the right to offend.

Blind belief is an obscenity,

                An imprisoning dead end.

Fanatical religion has its place –

                In the dustbin of time.

We’ve come far too far

                To believe in this nursery rhyme.

They’ve tried to kill Rushdie

                And silence intelligent debate.

Religion is about power

                Imposed from the caliphate.

Blasphemy is a right

                And certainly not an offence.

Criticising an evil is prime!

                So let the battles commence!

Rights and freedoms

                Are the result of much blood and courage!

No brainwashed savages

                Will succeed in creating prisons for our age!

A person is free to believe

                Whatever they please.

But imposing it on others

                Is nothing short of a disease.

I have the right to disagree;

                To say your god’s a lie.

If that should offend you

Then it’s you who must ask why!

To kill someone for their beliefs

                Is simply obscene –

Based on a religious text

                Straight out of the Miocene.

So you can take your religion

                And stuff it somewhere other.

I’ll criticise what you believe

                As if I was your brother.

You can try to rule the world

And crush dissent with might.

But you will be defeated.

Killing is never right!

Opher 14.8.2022

I have watched the stabbing of Salman Rushdie with horror.

For me this is exactly what religion is about – fear, hate, division and death.

These religions are relics of tribal beliefs from the stone-age – steeped in misogyny, violence and draconian control.

A plague upon them all.

The whole bunch of Abrahamic faiths are based on the beliefs of a bunch of ignorant nomadic tribes from prehistoric times.

THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY!! Time to end superstition!

The sooner mankind grows out of these fairy-tales the better.

It should be illegal to indoctrinate children. It’s child abuse!

These brainwashed fanatics are a danger to us all. If they had their way we’d be living in a world of clones where free speech and creativity would be punishable.

Give me freedom!

Long live Salman Rushdie.

Savages From The Dark Ages

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Savages From The Dark Ages

Savages from the Dark Ages

                In the guise of religious fanatics.

Want to put us all in straitjackets

                Using obscene tactics.

Stabbing, shooting and torturing

                Anyone whose does not believe.

Brainwashed religious morons

                Offering no-one a reprieve.

Conditioned from birth

                To believe in an intolerant tale.

As if killing for a fictitious god

                Would save them from fictious hell.

Beliefs from the dawn of time

                Persist to this day

As babies are abused –

                Imprinted with the same old cliché.

Brought up on texts

                From Ignorant times

They go out primed

                To commit horrendous crimes.

We’ll fight for free speech

                And the right to offend.

Blind belief is an obscenity,

                An imprisoning dead end.

Fanatical religion has its place –

                In the dustbin of time.

We’ve come far too far

                To believe in this nursery rhyme.

They’ve tried to kill Rushdie

                And silence intelligent debate.

Religion is about power

                Imposed from the caliphate.

Blasphemy is a right

                And certainly not an offence.

Criticising an evil is prime!

                So let the battles commence!

Rights and freedoms

                Are the result of much blood and courage!

No brainwashed savages

                Will succeed in creating prisons for our age!

A person is free to believe

                Whatever they please.

But imposing it on others

                Is nothing short of a disease.

I have the right to disagree;

                To say your god’s a lie.

If that should offend you

Then it’s you who must ask why!

To kill someone for their beliefs

                Is simply obscene –

Based on a religious text

                Straight out of the Miocene.

So you can take your religion

                And stuff it somewhere other.

I’ll criticise what you believe

                As if I was your brother.

You can try to rule the world

And crush dissent with might.

But you will be defeated.

Killing is never right!

Opher 14.8.2022

I have watched the stabbing of Salman Rushdie with horror.

For me this is exactly what religion is about – fear, hate, division and death.

These religions are relics of tribal beliefs from the stone-age – steeped in misogyny, violence and draconian control.

A plague upon them all.

The whole bunch of Abrahamic faiths are based on the beliefs of a bunch of ignorant nomadic tribes from prehistoric times.

THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY!! Time to end superstition!

The sooner mankind grows out of these fairy-tales the better.

It should be illegal to indoctrinate children. It’s child abuse!

These brainwashed fanatics are a danger to us all. If they had their way we’d be living in a world of clones where free speech and creativity would be punishable.

Give me freedom!

Long live Salman Rushdie.

Richard Dawkins on the Bible – Completely destroying the arguments of Religious People.

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The Bible – a 2000-year-old book written by tribes of desert-dwelling Arabs. Contains some terrible morality – homophobia, misogyny, violence and racism. Also contains some contradictory good morality – concerning not killing, stealing or being racist, loving each other and being kind and compassionate.

As a book of guidance, it is extremely flawed as one would expect from something emanating from such a patriarchal, tribal culture as that of the Arabs of that time.

Richard Dawkins does a good job in holding his patience in the face of much stupidity.

Poetry – Prophets of Doom

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Prophets of Doom

You who build all the guns, you prophets of doom.

Who trade in missiles to make your market boom.

Who stuff bombs with nails with deliberate intent

To rip through the flesh, create misery and torment.

Despicable in every way.

Scum of the earth,

Architects of misery,

Filth without worth.

Opher – 28.11.2018

This is my version of Bob Dylan’s Masters of War.

Je suis Charlie – What a shame the murderers were killed!!

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It is a great shame that the murderers were killed. I cannot help thinking that in their misguided logic it is what they wanted. They and the other religious fanatics really believe that they are martyrs and will wake up in paradise.

There are brainwashed fools. No sane God would give their blessing to callous murderers. The Yemen fanatics behind this are nice and safe hundreds of miles away.

Charlie Hebdo

No man is above the law. The murderers would have been better dealt with in a court where their barbaric crimes could be spelt out. They would have been committed to prison for life and had a long, long time to contemplate how they have been duped.

In order to combat immoral people it is necessary to be completely spotless. I wish they had not been shot.

I hope the whole sane Muslim community of the world unites to condemn this abuse of Islam. Young people the world over need to be told in no uncertain terms that this sort of murder does not result in paradise; it is not allowed by the teachings in the Koran and it is not condoned by any God.

If there was a God they would have to explain their actions. They are cold-blooded killers. The courts were the best place to ascertain their guilt.

Beheadings – primitive cowardice of a religion bereft of morality!

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The perverted minds of modern-day barbarians using religion as an excuse for their barbaric thuggery.
History is littered with the horrendous acts of religious fanatics as they force their ridiculous views on others through torture, cruelty and the infliction of as much pain and terror as they can manufacture.
No sane god would sanction the cruelty of religious fanatics.
Stoning
Burning
Beheading
Crucifixion
Impalement
Indoctrination of children

Judaism and Christianity have both had their barbaric pasts but Islam is presently the most inhuman.

If there was a god who sanctioned such things he would have to be fundamentally evil.

It is time we put religion back into its mediaeval past along with all its crusades, jihads, pogroms, inquisitions, blasphemy laws and other superstitious nonsense constructed out of the fears, weaknesses, stupidity and flawed logic of men.

There is no god. It is time we stopped using that excuse and grow up. There is no justification for beheading an innocent man, flying a plane full of innocent people into a building or forcing women to have to wear burqas.

Let us build a new zeitgeist built on fairness and equality!!