That is the most interesting part of what Brand was saying, it doesn't matter the fact someone was using a child as a shield, a human being would not fire.

"Everything is air-droppable at least once."

"When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."

Israel is now standing at the edge of a precipice of its own making.

They have repeatedly targeted, deliberately or through negligence, civilians, in enormous numbers, and taken measures which are entirely disproportionate to the threat against them.

They continue to misuse their position as a 'democracy' and a so-called island of stability in an unstable region. If they wish to retain any level of respectability in the eyes of the western world, they have to act in a far more restrained and proportionate way. Their lack of respect for human life now puts them arguably on the same level as the terrorists they claim to abhor.

Whether they are committing war crimes, and whether those crimes include genocide, we will see. But they are now in or close to that level of utterly unacceptable, indiscriminate, excessive aggression where that charge is no longer an unreasonable one to make and one they should have to be answerable for.

If they wish to retain international support (although their action indicate they don't really care), then they have to rise above the terrorism of Hamas, not stoop to their level.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand!

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.

(Member of the School of Optimism 1969-2016 inclusive)

So you get your definitions for words from Wikipedia do you? That's interesting......It's important to note the intention with genocide.....It may fail but the intent with it is to wipe someone out.

Genocide is the attempted or realised deliberate extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

If Israel seriously wanted to wipe out the Palestinians then be under no illusions you wouldn't have twenty five percent of the population displaced.....Gaza would be a river of blood......And rockets wouldn't be fired from there because there would be no one left to fire them.

Israel is not attempting genocide and anyone saying it is an emotional reactionary.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

So by your own definition (emboldened) it is genocide. Israel want to wipe out Hamas.

Interesting you just restate in different words the wiki definition, something you obviously looked up yourself. Personally I feel wiki is a safe source for looking for a dictionary definition, rather than historical fact etc. However, I would suggest although often corrupted it would be a safer source than Jewish newspapaers.

I today's world, Jews aren't going to get away with rivers of blood or extermination camps. the use of artillery, bombs,slow starvation and the denial of basic medicine and sanitary services.

Genocide does not have to look like Dante's Inferno.

"Everything is air-droppable at least once."

"When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."

The offensive hasn't failed yet.

"Everything is air-droppable at least once."

"When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."