Israel's Actions in Gaza Spark International Outrage

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Accusations of the heinous crime abound

MANY GOVERNMENTS and citizens are appalled by the civilian casualties from Israel ’s bombardment and invasion of Gaza , which is its response to Hamas ’s attack on Israel . On October 10th the Palestinian envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour, described Israel ’s actions as “nothing less than genocidal”. Iran and Iraq have also accused Israel of genocide. Politically, it is clear why Israel ’s enemies should invoke the heinous crime.

So which atrocities constitute genocide? The systematic murder of 6m Jews by the Nazis was genocide. The organised butchery of perhaps 500,000 ethnic Tutsis by Hutu militias in Rwanda in 1994 was too. In both cases the intent, to destroy a people, was clear. Yet the case of Darfur, in Sudan, where about 300,000 people died in the years after fighting broke out there in 2003, is less clear. America called this a genocide.

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