I keep seeing the war in Gaza as being classified a genocide.

genocide: the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

Now, when I look at the Iraq war, the goal was to destroy Ba’athist Iraq. By the same definition, wouldn’t that war have been a genocide as well? As an outsider, I observed awful humanitarian suffering during the Iraq war and don’t necessarily see the difference with the new situation in Gaza or see it as uniquely evil.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Ok, but the existence of both German people and the state of Germany today is good evidence that your criteria is wrong.

    • yarr@feddit.nlOPEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Or it was a failed genocide? Are all genocidal attempts successful?

      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        The allies never had a stated goal to erase Germany or the German people. They had the means to once Germany surrendered and yet only a handful of (very guilty) members of the Nazi leadership were executed. The Soviets were heavy handed and even they did not have a desire to erase German identity. If you want to argue they failed at a goal which was never a stated aim I don’t know what to tell you.