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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Chris McGreal

The language being used to describe Palestinians is genocidal

A child walks away with belongings salvaged from the rubble of a building hit in an Israeli strike on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip
‘In 2002 during the second intifada, the Tel Aviv newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth published a letter by Israeli children titled: ‘Dear soldiers, please kill a lot of Arabs’.’ Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, set the tone as he spoke about how far to assign guilt for the worst single atrocity against Jews in his country’s history.

“It’s an entire nation out there that is responsible. This rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved, it’s absolutely not true. They could’ve risen up, they could have fought against that evil regime,” said Herzog.

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