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It's a genocide. Your point is they could probably be more efficient and obvious about the civilian murder. Therefore, it's not a genocide.
Your point is moronic.
I think their point is that: of course it's not the intention to wipe them out, because if it was, it would already have been done on Oct 8th. Which isn't a terrible argument.
Hamas has stated it wants to genocide Israel, and their actions match that. Indiscriminate rocket fire, suicide bombing, invading etc. essentially everything they can do.
By contrast Israel has not (officially) said they want to genocide Palestine, and they aren't using even a fraction of the weapons at their disposal. Personally, I see their actions more as angry and sloppy. What's the alternative, that they're going to kill hundreds of people a day for the next years? That's ridiculous.
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Unless they wanted to commit a genocide while maintaining just enough plausible deniability to have people like you and I debating their intentions while it happens.
In which case it would look... exactly how it looks. Crazy, that.
You could say that about literally every war