subject change

[Dennis Perrin]

> The official UN definition of genocide:
>
> >In the present Convention, genocide 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:
> >
> >* (a) Killing members of the group;
> >* (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
> >* (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
> >calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in
> >part;
> >* (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
> >* (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Well, the last two, esp (d), aren't happening; (a) (b) and (c) is happening,
and it's happening on both sides (though the Palestinians don't have the
firepower of the Israelis). Bulldozing houses and blowing up commuter busses
are brutal, awful, criminal things -- but "genocide"? Well, if it makes the
LBOers feel more confident in their take on matters Israeli, then go with
it. Wouldn't want to kill the buzz that comes with the claim.

DP