• SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Everyone knows it’s genocide just most don’t want to admit it.

    Really any solution that doesn’t end in genocide has to start with the US actually doing something other than enabling.

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      US adminstrations (quite independently of whatever party mask they wear) have a long tradition of supporting “they’re Nazis but they’re our Nazis” governments (remember Pinochet or even Saddam when he was “our guy”) and there really is no reason to expect they would change now.

      You see this relativisation of Evil all around, by the way: notice how Germany’s “Never again” turns out to really be “Jews are just like us” rather than “This should never be done again to anybody, anywhere” hence their sanctioning of Russia - who are targetting “people like us” - right next to their “unwavering support” of the Fascists targetting “those not like us” (or, as they call them over there, “human animals”).

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Being charged with genocide is one of the hazards of committing genocide.

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    6 months ago

    In its response to the petition, Israel accused South Africa of a “blood libel,” which is “without legal merit and constitutes a base exploitation and contempt of court.”

    blood libel

    noun

    • The false accusation that Jews murder non-Jewish children to use their blood for their religious rituals and holidays.
    • Any false or purportedly false accusation of murder of a non-Jew by a Jewish person or organization.
    • Any false or purportedly false accusation of guilt, especially of guilt in mass murder or homicide.

    That third point is such a cop out.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    6 months ago

    Israel can just invade the Netherlands and liberate its defendants, leaving no other survivors. The US (which has a Hague Invasion Act covering any of its own citizens in the event of such a trial) would provide logistical support, either openly or tacitly, and the IDF could use German air bases for staging.

    • SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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      Genocide is not just extinction but an attempt to destroy or erase a nation. Likud’s charter calls for the elimination of a Palestinian state and its leaders have talked openly about using the military to drive all Palestinians into Egypt and Jordan and eliminate the idea of a Palestine. That IS genocide.

    • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Your math is wrong. Israel has killed 1% of the population of Gaza (23,000 out of an estimated 2.3 million) in under three months. So at the current death rate they would kill the entire population in 12.5 years, not 23.

    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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      But Hamas only killed 1139 Israelis in their attack, not even getting to the 4000 per day threshold, so Israel should not even be allowed to counter attack at all.