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What's worse than genocide, and how are you able to convince yourself that murder is not the lesser evil?
Well for one, many people have problems calling this a genocide yet, me for one. I've had an entire branch of my family wiped out by the Holocaust, 90% of Belarussian Jews were exterminated, that's literally almost everyone. The Germans purposely went door to door killing as many people as possible.
Meanwhile the highest estimate for civilian deaths in Gaza in 30k, or almost 1.5%. There's a massive massive massive difference between these two. Israel isn't going door to door trying to kill as many Palestinians as possible or indiscriminately bombing refugee camps for the fun of it, they just don't care if they kill 10 civilians for one Hamas member.
And on the other hand, literally every other candidate would do worse than Biden in Gaza, Every. Single. One.
He's not just the lesser of two evils, he's literally the only option.
It doesn't matter what you call it by. Its very own definition. It is genocide and it is being committed by a fascist liberal, and trying to claim that somebody else would commit murder worse is asinine.
Israelis don't need to go door-to-door to kill everybody because they're using US supplied weapons and white phosphorus to carpet bomb them.
Disregarding the rest of your comment, just this is dumb enough alone and shows how you feel about the situation.
Israel hasn't been carpet bombing Gaza, Gaza is tiny, Israel has enough weaponry to immediately flatten the entire place tomorrow if they want. What you're saying is incredibly disconnected from reality, and if it was true the casualties would be much much higher by now, almost in the millions.
Israel has been doing targeted strikes, not carpet bombing, even if it doesn't seem like it because they're still murdering thousands of children. When Israel encounters any form of resistance, whether that be an IED, rocket, or small arms fire, they stop, issue an evacuation order for that neighborhood, wait, and then bomb the shit out of it and storm it. The majority of the deaths have come from them not properly notifying an area they were supposed to evacuate before bombing it, or from civilians still being in the area after a proper evacuation order.
This is effectively the exact same thing Russia is doing in Ukraine, still fucking awful, still needs to be stopped immediately, and Biden still isn't doing enough.
But it's not the carpet bombing genocide you claim it to be.