MEDIAWATCH: Damien Grant – “Our ethnic cleansing war crime is NOT a genocide’ and other Israeli jokes

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Martyn Bradbury
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The Planet of Sour Grapes: See no Genocide, hear no Genocide, Speak no Genocide

I love Damien Grant, and I think it’s neat that he has decided to go into bat for the Dictionary in his latest column over the use of the word genocide.

It’s funny because the rest of us would prefer to defend the Palestinians, but Damien has decided the Dictionary needs equal protection.

I think it’s charming Damien feels he is smarter than the entire South African Legal team who are arguing that what Israel is doing is a text book definition of genocide, only Libertarianism and Scientology can promise that level of self assured intellectual confidence…

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…so what is the definition of almost 24000 dead Palestinians from a disproportionate bombing campaign on the most densely packed open prison on the planet?

Well he doesn’t get around to defining that at all.

Unfortunately for Damien, I’m not sure “Our ethnic cleansing war crime is NOT a genocide’ doesn’t provide the moral high ground Israeli apologists seem to think it does.

The ramifications of Israel’s disproportionate war crimes are going to plunge us to levels of atrocity where the word Genocide will demand redefinition.

 

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31 COMMENTS

  1. I realise there are legal reasons that we have to be able to label things or put in them in a nice little box, so while we are at it why doesn’t Mr Grant do the word semite next and talk about the use of ‘anti semite’ as the IDF kills loads of them. I would say in a traditional sense the IDF are very antisemitic.

  2. Damien Grant’s article was a good one and quite correct – the woketards will disagree of course because even receiving a soy latte that is not quite hot enough qualifies as genocide.

    • You can argue about the meaning of the word genocide but comparing the death of shit loads of women and children to the temperature of a latte probably makes you a caring understanding nurturing type.

    • The only real information to be gained from Damien’s article was that he has been on a paid trip to Israel or hopes to do so soon. It is not unusual to use the same word to describe similar events as things don’t have to be exactly the same for the word to reflect what happens. The word “race” is an obvious example, horse race, car race, cycle race, foot race along with the human race, white race, Asian race etc. It is obvious within the context of the sentence what the word means & while Damien might be happier to describe it as a mass killing of mostly innocent Palestinians including women & children whose only fault appears to be that they were in the path of Israeli weapons.

  3. “…so what is the definition of almost 24000 dead Palestinians from a disproportionate bombing campaign on the most densely packed open prison on the planet?”

    Maybe it’s a penultimate solution, rather than a final one. A shandy-like genocide.

  4. Yet someone else with a pathological hatred for Palestininans. I wonder what they ever did for him. Next thing he will probably be going to Israel to fight against the poor Palestinian women and children who represent a grave threat to the Jewish race.

  5. Release the hostages and it all stops.
    Hardly the definition of a genocide
    Genocide is what happened to the Moriori

    • Israel was offered the release of all their hostages, very, very early into this conflict. They just has to release all of their Palestinian hostages in return. As we can see, they refused. Otherwise, nothing will stop for Palestine until the illegal occupier of their lands is either forced to return back to their agreed upon, borders or the occupier kills/drives the Palestinians off their lands.

      As for genocide, when Israeli soldiers/commanders/politicians freely use this term and similar language to describe their actions and wishes, plans, then arguing/debating definitions is nothing more than a deflection from the tragedy taking place right before our very eyes.

    • Really? So where did the genocide of Moriori take place? Did they have a specific area outside of the Chathams where this occurred?

  6. My idea of thecasebeing brought agains Israel is that it aims to stop the genocide being accomplished rather than to establishthat it has happened already. The many statements made by leading Israeli MPs have made it clear that genicide is theintention and they are getting on with it in a methodical way. After it has been completed and there are no Palestinians left alive in Gaza or the West bank it will be a bit too late to bother with legal definitions and terminology. It will be a subject for historians.
    D J S

  7. Meh – genocide is pretty clear here. What is Israel’s long-term plan for Palestinians? That there are none. Time we sanctioned them. Palestine can have their embassy building.

  9. It feels like Hammas are hand in glove with Israel. Hammas want to start world war three and don’t care who gets killed, most immediately especially the civilians of Gaza and Israel wants to exterminate Palestinians and are doing so right in plain sight, no shame. Now the west are bombing the poorest country in the world because they are bombing western shipping. It’s all going to shit pretty quickly…

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