[Peace-discuss] UN Definition of Genocide

[David Johnson via Peace-discuss]

Really Roger ?

Who is the " Dupe " here ?

Obviously your knowledge of history and the facts are lacking, or you 
choose to drink the corporate media propaganda  kool-aid because it 
makes you feel better.
Especially in regard to Israel, which has practiced INTENTIONAL ETHNIC 
CLEANSING from the very beginning of it's formation, which continues to 
this very day.

David Johnson

On 10/7/2014 3:27 AM, Roger Helbig wrote:
> you seem to ignore the very beginning -
>
> /* committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, 
> ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:*/
>
> Committed with intent is essential - there has been no intent, but I 
> am sure that the propagandists, of which you seem either to be a 
> willing participant or just a willing dupe, take your choice, would 
> choose all of us to believe otherwise.
>
> /
> /
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 7:56 PM, David Johnson 
> <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net <mailto:davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Yes,
>
>     Israel has committed every single item you listed, except the last
>     item, and the U.S. State Dept. has supported a multitude of
>     governments over the decades since world war II who have done all
>     of the items you listed.
>
>     David J.
>
>     On 10/6/2014 8:25 PM, Roger Helbig via Peace-discuss wrote:
>>     Many of you should refresh your memory of what exactly "Genocide"
>>     is, not just throw the term around because it seems like the
>>     thing to do - comes from the US Holocaust Museum
>>     http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007043
>>
>>     *THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE*
>>
>>     On December 9, 1948, in the shadow of the Holocaust
>>     <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143> and
>>     in no small part due to the tireless efforts of Lemkin himself,
>>     the United Nations approved the Convention on the Prevention and
>>     Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. This convention establishes
>>     "genocide" as an international crime, which signatory nations
>>     "undertake to prevent and punish." It defines genocide as:
>>
>>     /[G]enocide 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:
>>     (a) Killing members of the group;
>>     (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
>>     (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
>>     calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in
>>     part;
>>     (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
>>     (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. /
>>
>>
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