No. Genocide means killing all or a part of a population because of their genes. I agree.
Then you can see that it is not relevant whether the people in the West Bank are also being genocided. The genocide in Gaza is still a genocide. The intent does not have to be to kill every single Palestinian in existence.
But I don’t understand how you say this and then a couple or paragraphs later say this…
If Israel wanted to eliminate Palestinians, it could carpet bomb all of Gaza and all of the West Bank and kill every soul there within a matter of hours.
You see how you’ve shifted back to “killing all Palestinians” being the only valid focus of a claim of genocide? It could do that but that is not the only way it could be a genocide. God even Hitler didn’t kill all of the Jews as quickly as possible.
It seems like you’re assuming Israel are stupid. Think about it. Imagine you did want to kill the Palestinians, in the modern world. Would you just drop some nukes and call it a day? Would you start making gas chambers?
Of course not! You would look evil. So you would have to do it with some kind of political cover. October 7th provided just that type of cover. That’s why they aren’t bombing the West Bank like they are Gaza, because they don’t have that justification. It would look too much like the gas chamber approach.
I’m not expecting you to agree that this is what is happening, but you must see that this “kill them all now” type of genocide is not the only “true” genocide? This is not a valid metric.
And then if we keep the “let’s not assume stupidity” approach for this point you made:
The New York times just published an article today called The Decline of Deaths in Gaza.
I think we can see why if you were being tactical, when you are literally on trial for genocide it might be a good idea to cool off a bit. Sooo many people are pissed at Israel, the justification is wearing thin (at best). If you’re being smart about it, you wouldn’t just carry on the tactics that got you into this mess.