Comment by whatgoodisaroad

1 hour ago

are you contending that every battle where someone is killed by an army counts as genocide?

This is such an incredibly ridiculous statement it's hard to believe it's in good faith.

No, the battle itself isn't genocide. But generally invading a country and defeating the defenders is a precursor to slaughtering civilians, aka. genocide.

In the case of the Middle East, they were Greek/Syriac/Coptic and Christian, then they were conquered, then they were Arab and Muslim. Demographic changes like that that accompany an invasion aren't exactly a coincidence.