Genocide Lie Enthusiasts Mourn the Collapse of the Genocide Lie

For all Israel’s martial acumen — its military-intelligence coups, its inventive methods for executing highly discriminating strikes on individual targets (even individual targets’ pockets), and its “astonishingly low ratio” of civilian-to-combat casualties in a fight against an adversary determined to maximize civilian casualties (according to eminent military historian Sir Andrew Roberts) — the Jewish State is terrible at genocide.

That empirical reality has long been a source of cognitive dissonance among those who know Israel is pursuing a genocidal project in the Gaza Strip but are starved for evidence in support of their conviction. While major combat operations inside Gaza were ongoing, the discrepancy was attributed to Israel’s refusal to allow Western journalists into a war zone. Now, however, reporters are surveying the post-war devastation for themselves, and what they’re concluding is not satisfying the activist class.