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NYT Bret Stephens Claims Gaza Not a Genocide - Because, Well, The Dictionary
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New York Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens recently said that describing what Israel has done in the Gaza Strip as genocide is farcical. Hawk has his own long running frustrations with the paper, and this is the kind of column that keeps putting his subscription in question.
Mehdi Hasan answered him on Zeteo, the outlet Hasan founded after leaving MSNBC. Hawk watched it as a blind reaction and walks through where the rebuttal lands hardest: the choice to reach for a dictionary definition instead of the observed conduct, the fact that a genocide finding has never required killing every member of a group, and the Myanmar precedent, where Facebook's failure to staff for local languages helped the violence spread.
Beyond the argument itself, there is the weight of having watched three years of this on a phone screen, and what that sits alongside in a country with its own four hundred year record toward Black Americans and Native people.
Zeteo is at zateo.com if you want more of Hasan's work.
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