It's absurd on its face. A modern, liberal, western Democracy is not committing genocide any more than Republicans are "racists". It is as you say, a substitution for actual thought that flies in the face of patent evidence. In WW II, Americans shelled towns and cities where the Wehrmacht held strongpoints. This wasn't genocide either. It absolutely results in some civilian casualties. That's war. The rules of war are quite specific as to where the line is drawn: no deliberate, intentional targeting of civilians. Only one side in the Israel-Hamas conflict is guilty of that. And it isn't the Israelis.
It's absurd on its face. A modern, liberal, western Democracy is not committing genocide any more than Republicans are "racists". It is as you say, a substitution for actual thought that flies in the face of patent evidence. In WW II, Americans shelled towns and cities where the Wehrmacht held strongpoints. This wasn't genocide either. It absolutely results in some civilian casualties. That's war. The rules of war are quite specific as to where the line is drawn: no deliberate, intentional targeting of civilians. Only one side in the Israel-Hamas conflict is guilty of that. And it isn't the Israelis.
But...but...from the river to the sea!!!! <eye-roll>