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In the context of the current war, the question "Is the Israeli state effecting genocide in Gaza?" suggests a threshold legal excursus, a definitional contestation, or a cry of moral outrage. This article does not take any of those paths. It lives the pain of the unethical deaths of tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza, while beginning the longer-term task of seeking a way beyond deploying the concept of "genocide" as a performative gesture of shock and horror. The article argues that the meaning of genocide is being emptied out by an unsettling of the grounding conditions of political debate and the relativization of political language. While the evidence is strong that crimes against humanity are being perpetrated in Gaza, both by the Israeli state in its attack upon civilians and by Hamas in holding hostages, the provisional ruling by the International Court of Justice that there is a case to be answered is the most resolute that we can be at this point. Clearly, the war has to stop. In the meantime, the article suggests an alternative way of naming the horror.
在当前战争的背景下，“以色列政府是否在加沙实施种族灭绝？”这个问题暗示了一种法律上的门槛偏差，一种定义上的争论，或者一种道德上的愤怒。本文不采用这些方法。它承受着加沙成千上万平民不道德死亡的痛苦，同时开始了一项长期任务，即寻求一种办法，而不是把“种族灭绝”的概念作为一种震惊和恐怖的表演姿态。本文认为，由于政治辩论的基础条件的不安和政治语言的相对化，种族灭绝的意义正在被掏空。尽管有确凿的证据表明，在加沙地带，以色列对平民的袭击和哈马斯劫持人质都犯下了危害人类的罪行，但国际法院（International Court of Justice）的临时裁决是我们在这一点上所能做出的最坚决的裁决。显然，战争必须停止。与此同时，这篇文章提出了另一种命名恐怖事件的方法。
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