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US says Israel has not violated international law during Gaza war (www.aljazeera.com)

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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.

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 287 points 8 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@discuss.tchncs.de 124 points 8 months ago

That and brown people don't count as people.

[-] CanadaPlus 81 points 8 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@lazysoci.al 3 points 8 months ago

And that's why I don't like cricket.

[-] CanadaPlus 2 points 8 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.

[-] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 8 months ago

Only leftists think we score a point when we say 'rules based order' is a farse. It's meant to be a farse, or they'd say international law like everyone else. To the imperial core and liberals, this is obvious and correct.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 25 points 8 months ago

The people in charge see it as obvious.

Do you think every dumbass liberal does? No! That's why we raise the contradictions.

[-] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 8 months ago

Do you think every dumbass liberal does?

Yes, they celebrate the asymmetry.

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I feel like the core of liberalism is feeling like youre a good person no matter what you do. Like all their evil is the monkey paw version of good things, and then they say they did the good thing.

Like how we did get globalism and free travel, but only for commodities, so (poor) people were locked down and labor was made more fungible because factories but not people were mobile. None of that commie universal kinship/comeraderie shit or the total anarchy of freedom to roam unaccosted by uniformed thugs, that might disrupt the interests of capital.

Liberalism is jacking yourself off with a monkey paw. It doesn't even vibrate, I don't think, but the stroking motion is essential. And if you point out not everyone's got a dick, you get a cookie and a pamphlet about using it as a dildo.

[-] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 8 months ago

I appreciate you a lot.

[-] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works -2 points 8 months ago

Poor Russia!

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

You might have missed the point lol

[-] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works -5 points 8 months ago

No point taken for sure. I just don't really feel bad that Russia was stopped from genocide in Ukraine even though it's not "fair". The US being able to enable Israel is absolutely deplorable though.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The US has destroyed it's credibility against Russia's war of aggression by supporting Israel's genocide. It's undermining its own authority.

These things are connected.

How do you look at these two things and not draw connections or conclusions? Is history just a series of disconnected events to you?

[+] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works -6 points 8 months ago

So you don't think it's good that Russia is being stopped from genocide in Ukraine? You're really saying the quiet part out loud here. I agree that the US has no credibility but I also think things would be just as bad if China and Russia were in charge.

All I was saying is that just because the US is not doing enough to stop genocide in Palestine doesn't mean that Russia is a victim for not being allowed to engage in their own imperialism. USA bad. Also Russia bad. Maybe worse? Doesn't excuse US actions but Russia isn't some underdog that's being picked on unfairly.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago

I don't think it's good that the US is lighting it's credibility on fire to support Israel because it will make it impossible to stop other wars of aggression like Ukraine! You are not seeing the big picture. Next time Russia invades a country everyone will ignore the US's claims about international law. International law has to be applied equally or it ceases to exist

[-] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works -4 points 8 months ago

I agree. I also think it's better to have 1 genocide instead of 2 genocides. I'd much prefer zero though.

It does seem like there's some pressure for the Biden administration to stop being so hypocritical in their foreign policy. I'm hoping things are going to change though it's happening far too slowly. We're very lucky that we're not in another Trump administration or things would be way worse.