John Mearsheimer
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And I think with the Hutus and the Tutsis, you had a similar situation.
I think with the Turks and the Armenians during World War I, that was a genocide.
But I have a rather narrow definition of what a genocide is, and I don't think there are many cases that qualify as a genocide.
The Holocaust certainly does, okay?
Now,
What Hamas did doesn't even come close to what happened to European Jewry between, let's say, 1939 and 1945, although I'd date the start of the Holocaust to 1941 if we were looking at it closely.
But let's just say 1939 when they invade Poland, from 1939 to 1945.
What Amos did pales in comparison.
It's hard to believe anybody would make that argument, right?
Yes, a lot of Jews died, but hardly alive.
Hardly any compared to the number that died, you know, at the hands of the Germans.
I mean, just no parallel at all.
And furthermore, Hamas was in no position to kill all of the Jews in the Middle East.
Just not going to happen.
Yes, but you don't see that withβI mean, that's not what Hamas is doing.
I mean, I want to be very clear here.
I am not justifying Hamas's killing of civilians, okay?
Not for one second.
But I'm just sayingβand by the way, just to go to the Israelisβ
And what they're doing in Gaza, right, as I said to you before, I do believe that is a massacre.