# Is the Gaza conflict a war or a genocide, and who is egging Palestinians on?

*A genocide, not a war: armchair coward-shaming and the religious-centre mentality*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/umku_ocftes/s/5/
- Date: 2021-05-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: The Palestinian Plight & Israeli Injustice | Mufti Abu Layth (18:19–20:57)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMKu_OCFTes&t=1099s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/umku_ocftes/

**Topics:** Palestine and Gaza; Middle East and the wider world

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth calls the conflict a genocide rather than a war and says urging Palestinians towards martyrdom from the comfort of one's home is armchair cowardice, driven by Arab buffer-zone interests and a religious-centre mentality.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says the conflict is a genocide rather than a war, and that egging Palestinians on towards martyrdom from the comfort of one's home is an armchair-coward approach.

**Evidence, his words at 18:19:** “so this this raza israel war is not a war it is a genocide and people have to you see the reality is that that's all it is” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMKu_OCFTes&t=1099s)

## Longer summary

Continuing the house-on-fire parallel, Mufti Abu Layth says the priority becomes saving one's life and the lives of one's loved ones. He says the Gaza-Israel war is not a war but a genocide, resulting only in exponential Palestinian deaths and generational trauma, and that people are not ready to have this conversation. He says elements of the global community are coward-shaming and egging Palestinians on towards martyrdom; the Palestinians have shown valour of biblical proportions, but to urge them from the comfort of one's home to die and have their children killed for the cause is an armchair-coward approach. He ties this back to the buffer-zone theory of neighbouring Arab countries, to international coward-shaming, and to a religious-centre mentality that treats the land as the holiest of holies or a little Haramayn, which he says is a discussion in itself and which he begins to open by turning to the Jewish claim.

## Sources and names cited

- The Palestinian crisis (May 2021)

## Transcript (machine tier, 18:19–20:57)

[18:04] assessment that there is just way too that this fire is uncontrollable or that a person can not put this fire out they are forced to evacuate the premise regardless of um regardless of the kind of monetary value or sentimental value that they have for that home the priority becomes to save their lives and the lives of their loved ones and their children this becomes a priority so this this raza israel

[18:42] war is not a war it is a genocide and people have to you see the reality is that that's all it is they cannot that this is all it results is in exponential palestinian deaths and ongoing generational trauma but people are not ready to have this conversation this is a problem because a global community there are elements within the global community that are almost coward shaming and egging on palestinians towards martyrdom

[19:21] and and the palestinians have an um and they have displayed incredible valor and courage i mean their bravery is of of biblical proportions that's how um you know how that's how astoundingly brave they have been but just to egg them on from the comforts of your home whilst you sit with your loved ones to say well oh it's okay just die for the cause have your children killed for the cause it's

[20:00] this is an armchair coward approach okay now the truth is this ties back into that political buffer zone uh theory that you see a lot of the neighboring arab countries want there to be a palestinian um buffer zone to safeguard their own interests and then there's the international um coward shaming and then there's the religious center mentality which is also put there that this is the holiest of holies or the little haramain and that is a discussion in and of

[20:40] itself look if we're going to briefly um and i'll i'll go into this on another occasion but if we're going to briefly recognize that look let's take a look at the jewish claim historians today and anthropologists have dug extensively extensively for the kingdom of david for the kingdom of solomon for any kind of archaeological find that could substantiate the united monarchy or the great

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment uMKu_OCFTes/s/5. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/umku_ocftes/s/5/

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