Highlights: Joe Biden and top aides have discussed the likelihood that Benjamin Netanyahu’s political days are numbered — and the president has conveyed that sentiment to the Israeli prime minister in a recent conversation.
Biden has gone so far as to suggest to Netanyahu that he should think about lessons he would share with his eventual successor, the two administration officials added.
The intent to “destroy, in whole or in part, a … group” is an essential component of genocide as defined by the UN. Civilian casualties as an inevitable consequence of warfare in a densely populated area are not genocide.
And Isreali officials have repeatedly stated they want Gazans gone, calling them human animals and the like.
And if that wasn’t enough, there’s this shit.
https://kbin.social/m/worldnews@lemmy.ml/t/588452/Israeli-Government-Mulls-Forcible-Permanent-Transfer-of-2-2-Million-Gaza
I think you’re right, in that what Israel has been doing to Palestinians over the past 70+ years is more accurately described as “ethnic cleansing”