"Time pointed out that one doesn't have to declare formal genocide for it to be so"

Yeah, I don't think anybody *declares* genocide. They just start killing people and come up with some justification for it.

I'm honesty totally unmoved by arguments that go back thousands of years about whose land this "really" is. Never mind ones that rely on imaginary tales from an ancient book. As you say, Jews and Muslims have lived alongside each other in that region for centuries. Mostly, it's worth noting, without incident. It's when the Jews and the British decided that a piece of land would belong *only* to Jews, and they would decide all of the laws (and immediately passed laws that discriminated in favour of Jews), that things got really explodey.

As I've pointed out a few times recently, 40% of the people living in Gaza right now weren't even born when Hamas were voted in to power. Another 10-20%, at least, were too young to vote. And besides, the rest of the world could say the same thing to America about Trump. And, it seems terrifyingly likely, will have an opportunity to say it again in November. We all know how rarely leaders truly represent their people.

So yeah, I don't think this is as simple as "who's worse". Because what you're doing is asking that question about the very worst people on either side, and then applying that judgement to everybody else. ~2.297 of the 2.3 million people in Gaza had nothing to do with October 7th. Only a tiny proportion of the ~9 million Jews living in Israel are responsible for the atrocities taking place in Gaza.

As I've been saying all along, I think our attention should be on that overwhelming majority of people who aren't killing or raping anybody.