On Civil Wars and Genocides

Why one should view the Israel-Palestine conflict as a Civil War not a Genocide

Members of the Abu Shabab gang in Gaza, in screen captures from a recent video posted by the group. (screen capture: Facebook)

(First published on the Times of Israel)

In the American Civil War (started 1861), 620,000 were killed, nearly 2% of the population. In the Russian Civil War (launched 1918), nearly 1 million died in fighting, tens of millions aft…