Gaza: This is not war, it's genocide

Genocide has a process. Gaza is in it.

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00:00call it what it is this is not war this is not defense this is genocide and no that's not social

00:09media outreach that's what the world's top genocide scholars are saying the people who

00:13studied Rwanda Bosnia Armenia the Holocaust they've looked at Gaza and said this is it

00:19not a crisis not a conflict it's a campaign to erase an entire people to Melanie O'Brien says

00:25genocide is a process and Gaza has been bleeding through that process for months indiscriminate

00:31bombing hospitals leveled doctors killed children starved how do you defend yourself by cutting off

00:38food to babies more than 57,000 Palestinians dead let that number sit with you more than 1700

00:45Israelis dead that's a 33 to 1 kill ratio according to some experts just think for every Israeli dead

00:5233 Gazans have died that's not defense that's a massacre dressed up in the language of diplomacy

00:57and now starvation as a weapon Gaza's children are dying from dehydration from hunger from silence

01:04their mothers are forced to feed them salt water and prayers what kind of monster calls this self

01:09defense even Israeli genocide scholars like Dr. Shmuel Lederman have stopped pretending he says what

01:15Israel is doing now meets the definition of genocide because Gaza is not just being attacked it's being

01:20erased one bombed school one burned child one buried hospital at a time and behind all this America

01:27without the US weapons US vetoes US silence none of this could have happened this is not just Israeli

01:32brutality it's Western complicity so stop gaslighting the world stop hiding behind words like complicated

01:39what's happening in Gaza is not complex it's it's criminal it's genocide in real time and the question

01:45now is simple will the world act or will we just let Gaza die and then write history

01:50books about how sad all of this was I'm Manish Adhikari thank you for watching the culture project and more