In response to today’s post of an interview with the Israeli Ambassador to Canada, Iddo Moed, Canadaland journalists Cherise Seucharan and Noor Azrieh present the following analysis.
…and a fact check of the statements made in the interview.
Would a strategy of making life in Palestine so difficult that everyone either capitulates or becomes radicalized [and therefore a legitimate military target] be genocide?
You answered “no”. Can you elaborate on how you reconcile your answer with our understanding of genocide:
Genocide is the attempt to destroy a nation/ ethnicity.
I asked:
You answered “no”. Can you elaborate on how you reconcile your answer with our understanding of genocide:
I know where you’re headed with this so I’m just cutting it off now before we argue about your claims about what Israel is doing.
It’s a bad look man