No. This isn't passive aggressive at all. It's a fact that you would feel differently about what's happening in Gaza right now if your family were being killed. As would anybody. It's also a fact that you'd feel less comfortable blithely telling any of the thousands of parents whose children have been murdered, to their face, that it's important to ask ourselves whether the "casualties are simply high" in this conflict.

That you call being asked to think seriously about the murder of innocent people "guilt-tripping" is fascinating. You aren't dropping those bombs. You aren't pulling those triggers. You aren't on television calling innocent people "human animals" and talking about nuking them. So why should you feel guilty? Again, your objection here, I strongly suspect, is about what you've been advocating, not any personal guilt at what Israel is doing.

Nor did I dismiss your point. The entire article addresses your point. First, yes, genocide has a meaning. I literally spell it out in the article. And that meaning concerns itself with subjective concepts such as intent and destruction "in whole or in part."

So then, as we're in danger of doing here, we have to debate how much of a part is a big enough part. As you said earlier, killing one person obviously isn't a genocide. But is killing 10? Or 100? Do we have to start calculating percentages? This is what I mean by terrible enough.

We also have to quibble about whether talking about nuking Gaza or citing genocidal bible verses constitutes intent. And again, this is all a distraction from the actual point, which is that Israel is recklessly and knowingly slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent people in pursuit of a stated goal that anybody with a brain, and I include Israeli leadership in that, knows they can't achieve.

If you want to have a conversation about how the Allies conducted themselves in WWII, that's fine. There are lots of good arguments about decisions taken by the allied forces. Not least, of course, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But right now, we're talking about Israel. So this too is a distraction.

p.s. While we clearly disagree, I do find your point of view valuable and I genuinely appreciate that you're arguing in good faith. But please, brevity is a virtue. This comment is longer than the original article.