how about the terms 'ethnic cleansing,' 'genocide' ?

I'll go ahead and type what they mean.

NRPI - No Real Person Involved

It's the most disgusting but most honest corporate term I have ever seen. Palestinians aren't real to these people. They are clumped together into "casualties" and maybe, if they are lucky, "civilian casualties". How many "non-real person" deaths does it take to force people to acknowledge this genocide?

Bombs dropped from thousands of feet and artillery shells lofted into Gaza from kilometers away result in death and destruction on a massive scale, but it is carried out remotely. The deadly results are unseen by those who caused them and the source unseen by those [who] suffer and die.

It’s a different kind of event and is described differently as ‘intensive,’ ‘unrelenting,’ and ‘punishing,’ raining death and destruction on one of the most densely populated places on earth…They are different stories, and we have tried to describe both accurately and vividly.  

It's not "murderous" if it's done from far away, apparently. Hitler didn't personally see the Jews he sent to the death camps so he wasn't "murderous" he was just "unrelenting" and "intensive." Aww he was just a hard worker then, bless his cotton socks.

Why do people keep calling revenge "defense"?

Israel had a chance to defend itself. It failed horribly. Now it gets to massacre civilians?

What the fuck?

I call it racism

There have been more civilians killed in the latest atrocities by the Israelis in Gaza in only three months than the number of all Ukrainian civilians dead in almost 2 years. but they haven't spared one bad word of the dictionary in describing Putin's war in Ukraine while banning their journalists from describing Israel's atrocities as brutal.

If this isn't racism and viewing one race more worthy of humanity and empathy than another, than I don't know what it could be, cause maybe we need a better word to describe both "racism + hypocrisy "

That's 1.1% of Gaza's population killed in just 3 month!

Big shoutout to to the IDF for killing the entire family of this 12 year old girl, and blowing her leg off in an airstrike.

And then when she was in the hospital the IDF shot at the hospital and blew her head off with a tank shell.

The one that Genocide Joe just bypassed congress for to send more to israel.

Not brutal though.

Oh, really?

Is this 22,600 number accurate? It's more precise than I would expect. I've also seen estimates of 8000 hamas militants killed, which is presumably included here as the Gaza authorities have never previously made a distinction. That suggests about 2 civilian deaths per soldier killed which is honestly a lot less than I would expect given all the "genocide" rhetoric.

I think Afghanistan ended up being about 1 civilian per 2 soldiers? That's 4x lower, but was largely fought in low population density deserts. Is there even a modern equivalent to draw a comparison with to gauge what a "normal" civilian casualty rate is for urban warfare?

CBC are toadying sycophants, this surprises nobody. I don't even know why people pay attention to them, they're irrelevant.

Semantics. It's genocide then. Or some other more technical term. There's a word for it, who cares? Everyone knows what we mean. And that's the point of words. To covey a meaning from one mind to another.

If you want to play the semantics game and abolish in-context definitions of words, then abolish all slang and idioms too.