“We really haven’t seen anything quite like this since the Nazis,” said Rapp, who led prosecutions at the Rwanda and Sierra Leone war crimes tribunals and is working with Syrian civil society to document war crimes evidence and is helping to prepare for any eventual trials.

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    Interesting that the scale is less than what Israel has done to Palestine since Oct 7th alone, yet it’s the worst thing since the Nazis? 🤔

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      To be… fair??? to Israel what they’re doing is a more “classical” genocidal campaign. They aren’t kidnapping Palestinians and torturing them en masse (they certainly are doing it, but not en masse). That’s what distinguishes them from the Nazis’ Holocaust for example.

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      Blowing up a country is different than rounding people up and summarily executing them