The international legal definition of the crime of genocide is found in Articles II and III of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.

Article II describes two elements of the crime of genocide:

1) the mental element, meaning the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such", and

2) the physical element which includes five acts described in sections a, b, c, d and e. A crime must include both elements to be called "genocide."

Article III described five punishable forms of the crime of genocide: genocide; conspiracy, incitement, attempt and complicity.

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"Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Article III: The following acts shall be punishable:

(a) Genocide;

(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;

(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;

(d) Attempt to commit genocide;

(e) Complicity in genocide. "

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It is a crime to plan or incite genocide, even before killing starts, and to aid or abet genocide: Criminal acts include conspiracy, direct and public incitement, attempts to commit genocide, and complicity in genocide.

Punishable Acts The following are genocidal acts when committed as part of a policy to destroy a group’s existence:

Killing members of the group includes direct killing and actions causing death.

Causing serious bodily or mental harm includes inflicting trauma on members of the group through widespread torture, rape, sexual violence, forced or coerced use of drugs, and mutilation.

Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to destroy a group includes the deliberate deprivation of resources needed for the group’s physical survival, such as clean water, food, clothing, shelter or medical services. Deprivation of the means to sustain life can be imposed through confiscation of harvests, blockade of foodstuffs, detention in camps, forcible relocation or expulsion into deserts.

Prevention of births includes involuntary sterilization, forced abortion, prohibition of marriage, and long-term separation of men and women intended to prevent procreation.

Forcible transfer of children may be imposed by direct force or by fear of violence, duress, detention, psychological oppression or other methods of coercion. The Convention on the Rights of the Child defines children as persons under the age of 18 years.

Genocidal acts need not kill or cause the death of members of a group. Causing serious bodily or mental harm, prevention of births and transfer of children are acts of genocide when committed as part of a policy to destroy a group’s existence.

The law protects four groups – national, ethnical, racial or religious groups.

A national group means a set of individuals whose identity is defined by a common country of nationality or national origin.

An ethnical group is a set of individuals whose identity is defined by common cultural traditions, language or heritage.

A racial group means a set of individuals whose identity is defined by physical characteristics.

A religious group is a set of individuals whose identity is defined by common religious creeds, beliefs, doctrines, practices, or rituals.

Key Terms

The crime of genocide has two elements: intent and action. “Intentional” means purposeful. Intent can be proven directly from statements or orders. But more often, it must be inferred from a systematic pattern of coordinated acts.

Intent is different from motive. Whatever may be the motive for the crime (land expropriation, national security, territorrial integrity, etc.), if the perpetrators commit acts intended to destroy a group, even part of a group, it is genocide.

The phrase "in whole or in part" is important. Perpetrators need not intend to destroy the entire group. Destruction of only part of a group (such as its educated members, or members living in one region) is also genocide. Most authorities require intent to destroy a substantial number of group members – mass murder. But an individual criminal may be guilty of genocide even if he kills only one person, so long as he knew he was participating in a larger plan to destroy the group.

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Fourth Geneva Convention – Collective Punishment

Collective punishments

Article 4 defines who is a Protected person: Persons protected by the Convention are those who, at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals.

Article 33. No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.

Pillage is prohibited.

Reprisals against protected persons and their property are prohibited.

Under the 1949 Geneva Conventions collective punishments are a war crime. Article 33 states: "No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed," and "collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited."
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The only catch to the international law is that Palestine needs to be a recongized state and a signatory to the Conventions. Then Israel would be in the Hague for war crimes.
That is why if they were smart they would petition the UN for statehood instead of waiting for any agreement with the Israelis and regardless of their borders. When Israel was recongized by the UN, and although the UN outlined it's borders, Israel for it's part left it's borders deliberately vague.
Palestine can do the same.
But not as long as Isrmerica is determined to undermine any agreement between Hamas and Abbas so that some parts of Palestine could not be included.

they strategically use their "victimhood" as a cover to commit the most atrocious serial war crimes and horrible acts against humanity on a daily basis.

israel is the MONSTER – the most terrible country in the world today … a nation based on murder and torture and abuse and theft and everything terrible

when will my beloved America wake up and pry this parasite from our neck (and our wallet and our media companies and our gov't, etc.)?

israel is making their play for regional power now – they will destroy America in the process – we are just a useful tool for them: an ATM (US Treasury); a soldier supplier (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, etc); a shield (UN, international stage); enabler; populace of patsys …

the oil pipeline from Mosul to Haifa is what it is about – so they can secure a land-line of territory and eventually make claims East.

israel is the greatest threat to America – 1000 times worse than the one-thousanth of onepercent of muslims.

israel uses and abuses us.

israel is a criminal state.

adelson, saban, bronfman, other mafiosis and traitorous israeli-firsters are funding the worst terrorists of all: the noxious foul settlers.

when will my country wake up to the war israel is making upon us????

they strategically use their "victimhood" as a cover to commit the most atrocious serial war crimes and horrible acts against humanity on a daily basis.

israel is the MONSTER – the most terrible country in the world today … a nation based on murder and torture and abuse and theft and everything terrible

when will my beloved America wake up and pry this parasite from our neck (and our wallet and our media companies and our gov't, etc.)?

israel is making their play for regional power now – they will destroy America in the process – we are just a useful tool for them: an ATM (US Treasury); a soldier supplier (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, etc); a shield (UN, international stage); enabler; populace of patsys …

the oil pipeline from Mosul to Haifa is what it is about – so they can secure a land-line of territory and eventually make claims East.

israel is the greatest threat to America – 1000 times worse than the one-thousanth of onepercent of muslims.

israel uses and abuses us.

israel is a criminal state.

adelson, saban, bronfman, other mafiosis and traitorous israeli-firsters are funding the worst terrorists of all: the noxious foul settlers.

when will my country wake up to the war israel is making upon us????

Novick argued in his book The Holocaust in American Life that Lemkin would have eventually termed the treatment of Palestinians as genocide if he had lived longer.

It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Zionism is inherently a murderous genocidal racist ideology and that the Zionist population of Stolen and Occupied Palestine must be considered collectively a criminal population while the organized Jewish community, the Israel Lobby and Zionism-supporters in the USA (Judonia, fellow travelers and useful idiors) are all criminals under the International Convention against Genocide.

The case of Germany is particularly tragic because in a mistaken effort to make atonement for German Nazi cimes Germany compounds whatever culpability Germans bear by supporting the ethnic Ashkenazi Nazi State in Stolen and Occupied Palestine.

Nevertheless, the refusal of Jews to exhibit remorse or repentence for crimes of terrorism, assassination, mass murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide in which far too many Jews have been involved in Germany, Austria, E. Europe, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and Palestine since 1848 is particularly striking.

Many Jews try to use the Holocaust, Pogroms and anti-Semitic incidents as rationalization for Jewish crimes during the time period in question, but ethnic Poles (especially Polish peasants) generally suffer at least as much during the time period in question, and there is no comparable collective criminality among Poles (as bad as the behavior of some members of the ND and AK may have been during WW2).

If the U.S. just has to make war in the ME, Israel should be the target.