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https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crimeofgenocide.aspx
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.


Ethnic cleansing is genocide.

It's highly unlikely what Israel is doing to the Palestinians is considered "ethnic cleansing." Israel has not committed "genocide" and just the notion that some people believe this, is an insult and a slap in the face to the true victims of genocide.

Again I ask the inevitable question. Why is Israel routinely singled out for their treatment of the Palestinians, when similar events get almost no condemnation. China occupying Tibet, and their persecution of the people of Tibet.  Russia illegally annexing the Crimea in the Ukraine. Indonesia's treatment of people in East Timor.  The USA as far as I know, has never made amends for their treatment of Native Americans. Even legitimate examples of ethnic cleansing such as Sudan's campaign to eradicate the South Sudanese Christian hardly gets mentioned.  There have been no sanctions against Turkey, even though the committed genocide against the Armenians.  No sanctions against Iraq for their persecution of the Kurdish population.  I cannot list all campaigns of ethnic cleansing over the past century as the list would go on for pages and pages.

Why is Israel put to a different standard than any other country? 
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