Almost 90 bombs were dropped in one region in just 24 hours.

Russia unleashed an unprecedented bombardment in southern Ukraine overnight in what local officials described as a “massive attack” in the conflict which has continued to rage even as the international community’s attention has moved to the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

The Ukrainian Internal Affairs Ministry on Monday morning said Russia dropped at least “87 aerial bombs on populated areas of the Kherson region - the largest number for all time.” At least eight people were also injured in other Russian strikes carried out in the Odessa region further to the west on Sunday night.

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    There is a lot of misinformation in your comment.

    The United States didn’t fund Israel’s iron dome system.

    There isn’t a genocide (race / tribe killing) in Gaza. That’s a population transfer or eviction of lands.

    Ukraine and the United States are working together to implement a air defense system. A likely defense treaty and a 100 year lease on military bases in exchange for infrastructure rebuilding is on the table.

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      There isn’t a genocide (race / tribe killing) in Gaza

      Genocide isn’t just killing…

      In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

      Killing members of the group;

      Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

      Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

      Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

      Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

      https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

      And even if that was just indiscriminate killing based on race/ethnicity, the UN is already saying what Israel is doing amounts to that

      https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/gaza-running-out-time-un-experts-warn-demanding-ceasefire-prevent-genocide

      Your opinion is your opinion.

      But what is/isn’t a genocide is clearly defined in the Geneva convention. And even if you’re definition was correct, the UN disagrees with you about Israel meeting that definition.

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          Some wars are about who gets control over some resources, or who will be collecting the taxes, without trying to wipe out the other side.

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              If that was true, then I’m sure there’s lots of statements from human rights organizations world wide clarifying how it’s wrong.

              Do you mind linking one?

              Quick edit:

              Also, that doesn’t mean Israel isn’t breaking the Geneva Convention…

              In fact, it seems to be admission that they are…

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                It will take a bit to pull it from the 1948 archive but Raphael Lemkin used it because it was a loaded word to mean killing millions of people.

                The actual UN definition added any transfer of children from one ethnic group to another in the last week of negotiations in 1948. Even by that definition it doesn’t meet the UN term with what is happening in Gaza.

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                  So to clarify, you agree that Israel is violating the Geneva Convention?

                  Your issue is just that the Genocide section is called that?

                  If all this is really that pedantic and you understand that human rights abuses are bad, and Israel is committing human rights abuses, I guess I’ll take what I can get.

                  But it seems like you’re defending the acts Israel are committing on the basis that the section of the genocide section of the Geneva Convention is more in depth than just saying “don’t exterminate every single person in a group”.

                  Because by that logic, there wasn’t a genocide in North America for over a century against the indigenous people…

                  Even by that definition it doesn’t meet the UN term with what is happening in Gaza.

                  Your still ignoring the majority of what the Geneva Convention says…

                  I’ve linked it multiple times, and even quoted it once so you don’t have to click the link…

                  https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

                  Specifically

                  Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

                  And

                  Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

                  But the link really goes into specifics that you should know, just read the link.

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                    Because by that logic, there wasn’t a genocide in North America for over a century against the indigenous people

                    I don’t agree there was a genocide against the waring tribes of the Southeastern United States. The results of the Indian Removal Act wasn’t a genocide but a forced migration after the War of 1812 due to to the local tribes joining the British and slaughtering civilians. If you read the Act you will see it was a direct response to the actions the tribes took against civilians.

                    The Souix Nation on the otherhand saw their children taken from them and placed in religious boarding schools, that would qualify.

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                    I don’t see anything Israel is doing that is a crime at this time. Governments get a lot of leeway when dealing with terrorism and Israel is dealing with the aftermath of a wide scale terrorist attack against civilians.