There was a time when the fog of war allowed confusion to masquerade as certainty.

That time has passed.

The fighting in Gaza has largely wound down. The hostages have been released. Large-scale offensives have stopped. Claims have been reviewed. Numbers have been revised. Aid flows have been tracked. Independent analysts have acknowledged manipulation of casualty figures and reporting distortions by Hamas. Even international agencies have quietly adjusted their framing.

And yet, the word genocide still rolls effortlessly off celebrity tongues.

Most recently, actors like Javier Bardem and Tilda Swinton joined dozens of others in signing letters condemning Israel – invoking genocide, starvation, and collective punishment.

Not tragedy. Not war. Not urban combat against a terrorist army embedded among civilians.

That word has meaning. Rwanda was genocide. The Holocaust was genocide. Armenia was genocide. It describes deliberate........

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