The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117493   Message #2555817
Posted By: CarolC
02-Feb-09 - 10:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Israel Moves in.
Subject: RE: BS: Israel Moves in.
I bolded what was written. I did not change anything.


The blockade targets civilians. When the basic necessities for life such as food, water, shelter, and medical care are withheld from a civilian population, there is no making excuses about accuracy. In such a case the civilians are being targeted. That would fall under this category...

[G]enocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;