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Monday, August 11, 2025
Netanyahu: ‘If we had wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon’
At his press conference with Israeli media, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes use of an argument used by many pro-Israel activists to counter accusations that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
“If we had wanted starvation, if that had been our policy… of two million Gazans, there would be no one left alive today, after 20 months,” he says. “If we had wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon.”
He adds: “There is no starvation, there is no policy of starvation — there was a shortage, and it needed to be stopped, and that’s exactly what is being done.”
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