After Israel killed seven aid workers in Gaza, the US says it has not found any incidents of Israel violating international humanitarian law in the past six months. An Al Jazeera probe concluded the World Central Kitchen vehicles were deliberately hit.
- queermunist she/her ( @queermunist@lemmy.ml ) 150•6 months ago
Israel, with US backing, is destroying the concept of international law. It’s now clear to everyone that the so-called international rules based order isn’t real and that the rules only apply to US enemies like Russia.
I think we’re seeing a repeat of the League of Nations.
- Drinvictus ( @Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de ) English80•6 months ago
That and brown people don’t count as people.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 48•6 months ago
That’s the bigger one. They’re happy to enforce the rules on brown people when they attack brown people, or white people on white people, and all hell is unleashed when it’s brown on white, but when it’s mostly white Israelis on mostly brown Palestinians you get crickets.
- Welt ( @Welt@lazysoci.al ) 4•6 months ago
And that’s why I don’t like cricket.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•6 months ago
Eh. It still seems more interesting than baseball, and it’s more exotic where I live, which the hipster in me likes.
In case this was actually unclear, there’s a media trope of using the sound of crickets (the animal) to emphasis a silence.
Clown country
- snooggums ( @snooggums@midwest.social ) English59•6 months ago
Holy hell, how can he say that with a straight face?
- Tiefling IRL ( @tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 0•6 months ago
- xor ( @xor@infosec.pub ) 36•6 months ago
i knew biden would be disappointing but fuck… not “incredibly horrible”
so, now the election is between incredibly horrible and unimaginably worse…
- Arcturus ( @Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 46•6 months ago
Love that americans are still worried about elections of all things as if anything other than organized violence will stop a capitalist government from committing genocide.
- Facebones ( @Facebones@reddthat.com ) 14•6 months ago
The #1 thing I’ve noticed this go round is how the best even the most dem pundits and supporters can come up with is “Yeah Biden does it but Trump will do it worse”
- underisk ( @underisk@lemmy.ml ) 13•6 months ago
I’m not even convinced that’s true when it comes to this issue. Trump, at least, narcissistically cares about what people think of him enough that he could maybe be swayed by public opinion. Biden has been a hardline Zionist his entire career and sees backing Israel to the hilt despite the public outcry as a moral imperative.
Besides, how do you get worse than eagerly aiding a genocide?
- Fidel_Cashflow ( @Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml ) 8•6 months ago
when Trump was in office, liberals at least pretended to care. They took COVID somewhat seriously, masked up out of spite, they paid lip service to the BLM protests. These past 4 years they’ve truly gone back to brunch. maybe if ol’ Mango Mussolini gets back in, they’ll pretend to give a shit again.
- aStonedSanta ( @aStonedSanta@lemm.ee ) 5•6 months ago
Yeah. I don’t know Trump would help this situation at all but it wouldn’t be this bullshit. That’s for sure. And I want to be very clear I do not and did not want a president trump.
- WamGams ( @WamGams@lemmy.ca ) 5•6 months ago
Ttumo has explicitly said he thinks Israel needs to finish the job.
Jesus Christ, inform yourself before you say shit like this.
- aStonedSanta ( @aStonedSanta@lemm.ee ) 4•6 months ago
Trump says a lot doesn’t mean him or his party would be doing the same if they were in this role lol.
- WamGams ( @WamGams@lemmy.ca ) 5•6 months ago
If you want to believe that Ttunp is lying to you about his feelings towards Palestinians, than there is nothing I can say to change your mind.
That is pure uninformed lunacy and you absolutely know better.
- melpomenesclevage ( @melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ) 2•6 months ago
Eagerly aiding a genocide while also doing one at home, but you know biden wouldn’t stop it if the fascists just did one, so he’s not really better than trump OK that either.
At least if trump tries to genocide me, he’ll be using poorly primed hierarchal power and you’ll get a lot of mutinies. Like, a non-trump fasch genocide is blood in the streets, and I’m so fucking shit at that, so my odds are like 10% and its definitely a bad time. If trump orders it, There’s a 50/50 chance the local air force base mutinies and flips on him because poverty draft, and I either get s hellfire missile or I don’t.
- melpomenesclevage ( @melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ) 2•6 months ago
Sufficiently grand disorganized violence or sufficiently organized property destruction could also work.
- WamGams ( @WamGams@lemmy.ca ) 1•6 months ago
I think all of us need to be keeping a list of accounts such as this one, advocating our websites users commit violence against the US government.
This person is explicitly a terrorist, a government agent, an idiot, or a combination of all 3.
Name and shame.
- bloodfart ( @bloodfart@lemmy.ml ) 15•6 months ago
lol at this wannabe cop bootlicker
Hey, you gonna file a report with your local intelligence branch about people on the internet mad at their governments?
- WamGams ( @WamGams@lemmy.ca ) 1•6 months ago
If somebody accuses you of being a cop, maybe don’t start acting like a child and then immediately call them a cop.
It just makes you look uncreative, on top of the other shortcoming previously mentioned.
- bloodfart ( @bloodfart@lemmy.ml ) 10•6 months ago
I’m not that guy.
You should definitely tell the police that people on the internet are making you feel bad though, call 911 asap!
- WamGams ( @WamGams@lemmy.ca ) 1•6 months ago
What are the chances two completely separate not the same guys could stumble into the same conversation and be that obtuse?
Fairly high!
Best of luck to you in your future endeavors.
- bloodfart ( @bloodfart@lemmy.ml ) 7•6 months ago
Wait, don’t give up on trying to convince people to document and rat on each other so easy!
Come on, how else are the spooks gonna know who to target if we don’t form a circular firing squad?
- Fidel_Cashflow ( @Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml ) 6•6 months ago
I have a million alt accounts and they’re all inside your walls
- Fidel_Cashflow ( @Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml ) 14•6 months ago
report me to the House Un-American Activities Committee you McCarthyist loser
- WamGams ( @WamGams@lemmy.ca ) 1•6 months ago
I didn’t realize not calling for terrorism on the open web made ma McCarthyite. Somebody just watched Good Night, and Good Luck in AP History, huh?
- Fidel_Cashflow ( @Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml ) 9•6 months ago
“those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
“Omg wtf JFK is a terrorist???” - you, apparently
- WamGams ( @WamGams@lemmy.ca ) 1•6 months ago
Except you are calling out for an Oswald here, not a JFK.
The sad thing is there might be somebody here stupid enough to fall for it. Doubtful, but maybe God is on your side tonight.
- Fidel_Cashflow ( @Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml ) 9•6 months ago
Lee Harvey Oswald was a single man, the poster you’re whining about is calling for mass organized action (that means with lots of coordinated people). Try to keep up, you’re making yourself look like a clown here.
- ֆᎮ⊰◜◟⋎◞◝⊱ֆᎮ ( @Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English11•6 months ago
Yup :(
I don’t envy you Americans. Here in Canada we have our own set of idiots too and it almost always boils down to voting for the least worst person :(
- xor ( @xor@infosec.pub ) 15•6 months ago
democracy under capitalism = fascism in cosplay
no matter how much you organize, grassroots, and petition… evil bastards will steamroll your movements with cash, and add a little concession to whatever you were riling people up about…
then you get to vote for the guy pandering to you or the guy who isn’t, but they’ll both do the same shit… give more money to rich people any way possible.
- ֆᎮ⊰◜◟⋎◞◝⊱ֆᎮ ( @Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•6 months ago
Yeah you only have Conservatives to choose from. It sucks.
- Arelin ( @Arelin@lemmy.zip ) 34•6 months ago
Thought this was an Onion article from the headline
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 31•6 months ago
the US says it has not
foundlooked for evidence of Israel violating humanitarian law.FTF them.
- EndlessNightmare ( @EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ) 30•6 months ago
US is an accomplice, so of course they can’t admit to Israel violating international law.
- init ( @init@lemmy.ml ) 29•6 months ago
“We have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing”
- 100_kg_90_de_belin ( @100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ) 29•6 months ago
Why would anybody think that the US could have beef with settlers killing civilians?
- K1nsey6 ( @K1nsey6@lemmy.ml ) English27•6 months ago
Cops investigated themselves and found no wrong doing
- Lad ( @AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ) 26•6 months ago
US/Europe’s support of Israel and condemnation of Russia pretty much just shows the rest of the world what hypocrites they are.
- MrMakabar ( @MrMakabar@slrpnk.net ) English3•6 months ago
France and Spain have voted fairly reliably against Israel. Spain called Israels action a genocide. Germany and the UK are the two European countries most pro Israel.
- acargitz ( @theacharnian@lemmy.ca ) 16•6 months ago
Since when is the US government the IC-fucking-J?
- kingthrillgore ( @KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ) 15•6 months ago
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- Scary le Poo ( @Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ) 15•6 months ago
The reason is that it has not issued any findings yet. It is going to in a few months.
This is clever wordplay, nothing more.
Edit: fuck me, it’s as if no one gives a shit about the truth anymore. It’s all kneejerk reactions.
This is a non-story. Governments don’t just willy nilly declare that somebody has or has not committed a war crime. It goes through an entire process. That process has not completed yet (in the US anyway). There are no findings yet. Therefore until the findings are released, the US has not found that Israel has done anything.
- Fidel_Cashflow ( @Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml ) 9•6 months ago
You seem to be a very savvy individual. Would you be interested in purchasing a bridge?
- PolandIsAStateOfMind ( @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml ) 3•6 months ago
In Baltimore.
- TonyTonyChopper ( @TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ) 7•6 months ago
So in your opinion the US will bring the genociders to court a few months after there’s no one left to kill and that’s normal
- Scary le Poo ( @Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ) 2•6 months ago
You must be very new to the world. You really think a nuclear power will ever be held fully accountable for the bad things that they do?
Perhaps you and the bridge guy need to have a conversation. I hear that it’s in a gorgeous location near Brooklyn.
- TonyTonyChopper ( @TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ) 5•6 months ago
So in your opinion the US will bring the genociders to court a few months after there’s no one left to kill and that’s normal
- Red Army Dog Cooper ( @CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml ) 15•6 months ago
And anyone trusts anything the US says why?
- HumanPenguin ( @HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ) English1•6 months ago
Because while it is morally crap. It is technically correct.
Palestine is not recognised as a nation internationally. And historically never has been.
So no international law applies to actions being committed.
- Red Army Dog Cooper ( @CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml ) 11•6 months ago
It has an nation observer seat at the UN, was a nation as a “mandate” after WW1 and the ICJ did make a ruling saying that Genocide was being committed there that the US passed a law threatening Palistine from recognizing.
On top of this most of the world recognized palistine as a country only 55 of the 193 (194 if we are counting the Holy Sea/Vatican City) do not recognize palistine. I would call that International recognition if 139 members of the UN Recognize Palestine.
So I really do not get what you are trying to say here, because it is not even techincaly correct, the International Court of Justice, United Nations General Assembly, International Red Cross Cressent and Crystal have all said it is a vioilation of international law.
This is before I start listing the individual counts of them violating just the geneva conventions, that apply to a signitory when they they fight any war reguardless of if the other side is recognized or a signitory. and agian Palistine is internationaly recognized
- PowerCrazy ( @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml ) English8•6 months ago
That isn’t even true in our shitty system.
- moe93 ( @moe93@lemmy.ml ) 7•6 months ago
Palestine…historically never has been [a nation]
Tell that to my 90-100 years old Palestinian grandparents who still have their official government documents from before the colonizers came barging in in 1948.