October 7 was Genocide. Israel’s response was not.
A deliberate, hate-driven massacre of civilians based solely on their identity, men, women, children, burned alive, raped, mutilated, executed in their homes, not for anything they did, but for who they are: Jews.
That's a genocide.
The targeted killing of a people because of their existence, not their actions.
Hamas didn’t attack military installations. They didn’t strike at soldiers. They went house to house, slaughtering families, celebrating death, filming their atrocities.
It was premeditated, ideological, and executed with intent, and that intent was annihilation.
Civilian deaths in Gaza are the consequence of a war that Hamas started, not the objective of Israeli policy.
Israel warned civilians before strikes. It opened humanitarian corridors. It told people to evacuate. No genocidal force behaves that way.
If Israel wanted to commit genocide, Gaza would no longer exist. But it does.
Because Israel is not pursuing extermination. It is pursuing the destruction of a terrorist regime that seeks Jewish extinction.
To equate the October 7 massacre with Israel’s military response is to rewrite the definition of genocide. It cheapens the word, and it shields the perpetrators while condemning the defenders.