"Committing a genocide as a United Nations commission has found Israel has done in Gaza requires one force to attempt to exterminate another people. But to commit that level of violence, it is necessary to see those being killed as not the same as you, as below human. The population needs to be dehumanised. That's the conclusion reached by Navi Pillay,"
"That's the conclusion reached by Navi Pillay, the head of the UN commission responsible for saying that Israel is committing a genocide, joining a growing list of bodies that have come to the same conclusion. When I look at the facts in the Rwandan genocide, it's very, very similar to this. You dehumanise your victims. They're animals, and so therefore, without conscience, you can kill them, said Pillay, a former International Criminal Court judge."
Israel has dehumanised Palestinians for decades, creating conditions that enabled mass violence described as genocide by a United Nations commission. Dehumanisation requires portraying targeted people as not human, a process compared to the Rwandan genocide by Navi Pillay. Many observers in Israel see the diminished valuation of Palestinian life as rooted in the country’s history and reflected in public and political attitudes today. Israel is heavily bombing Gaza City while tens of thousands of civilians remain and famine has been declared. The apparent objective includes forcing civilians to flee and destroying the city to facilitate operations against Hamas, with such bombing normalised and sometimes publicly celebrated.
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