Comment on Germans: what genocide?
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It would be genocide if they were targeting a particular ethnic group. And please remind me why it’s more important to spend UN session time trying to decide whether it it genocide and not, idk, actually taking actions to stopping the war?
They are targeting Palestinians, a particular ethnic group. That’s why they are executing unarmed civilians, too bad they got caught when they “felt threatened” by murdering shirtless fleeing Israeli hostages the soldiers thought were Palestinians.
“Gaza beachfront property” is already being carved up.
21% of Israel’s population is Arab, but I don’t see them being rounded up for the gas chambers.
Neither are they attacking the eastern chunk of Palestine, which in ethnically identical.
This is a war between nations.
So no gas chambers = no Palestinian genocide? That’s one hell of a leap.
Also West Bank Palestinians are being displaced and attacked by “settlers”. That’s another war crime.
lennybird@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They have tried to stop the war… With Ceasefire votes… That even the US no longer vetoes…
… Russia and China vetoed. Blame them.
The next best thing is that UN committees can investigate and identify genocide without it necessarily being vetoed. Once the UN and especially ICC identify such genocide, that adds global pressure; such global pressure leads to supporters of Israel to reconsider holding Israel’s hands; hence why the US in an unprecedented move has stepped further away from Israel than it has for decades. People don’t understand just how closely-linked Israel and US have been. I never would’ve thought a sitting US President would say a bad word about Israel/Bibi without fear of major backlash. We’re certainly at an inflection point — and it’s about fucking time.
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Russia and China never vetoed a ceasefire only an American bill that endorsed israel committing collective punishment.
lennybird@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s equivocation. [Reuters - “Russia, China veto US-led UN resolution on Gaza ceasefire”(]reuters.com/…/un-security-council-fails-pass-us-r…)
graymess@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No, the US resolution was distinctly bullshit and did not call for an immediate ceasefire. The previous resolutions that the US vetoed did. Let’s not pretend the US proposed this version of a resolution out of humanitarian interest.