The choice to publish Stephens's opinion piece on the use of the word "genocide" to descrbe Israel's actions in Gaza takes the Times further down the road of complicity in the unfolding horrors. The majority of scholars, almost all human rights and humanitarian organizations and the overwhelming majority of people -- especially those living in the global south -- know that Palestinians are being slaughtered "as such," as the definition of the word "genocide" requires. The only reasonable explanation for the deliberate targeting of children with bullets to the head or torso by Israeli snipers is the belief by the officers who instruct them on targeting that Gazan children are all just immature terrorists who "deserve" extermination. That sounds like killing Palestinians "as such" regardless of their individual beliefs or actions. Yes, this is a genocide and your publication is complicit in its execution.
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