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[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Interview indeed. The popularity of Marvel/DC movies is symptomatic.

It is the age of hyperbole and polarization. As if something is not a tragedy worthy of attention unless you can paint it as the worst thing ever.

And the solutions imagined are total fantasy. Jews aint leaving the Levant, neither are the Arabs.

I watched a documentary which blew my mind recently, leaving no party looking clean in the Middle East conflict. Neither ProPal nor Zionist philosophy comes into it. The reality is too messy for the partisan minds: HyperNormalization: A Different Experience of Reality.

Being in my 60's it has been years since I saw something so challenging. Since this is an anarchist community this should appeal although it is not hopeful. More like an examination of organised Chaos.

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Putin kills Ukrainian civilians, not because of their religion or genetics or culture but to terrorise them into submission so that they encourage their military to give up so that he gets to plunder their land and resources.

This is very different to the universally accepted definition of genocide as applies to The Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia.

Ireland is trying to get the ICJ to broaden the UN definition of genocide to include both the Ukraine and Gaza tragedies.

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Thanks, I hadn't seen that. What strikes me as odd is that neither side mentions a huge factor in the conflict: China's investment in the "belt & road" initiative which relies on the old "Silk Road" route which passes through Xinjiang.

The Uighurs did have an independence separatist movement (China isn't paranoid) and it would disrupt these plans. China aint letting go of its tight grip any time soon.

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Any source from anywhere could be propaganda. Here is your chance to debunk the BBC report if you want.

You are confusing banning news production by foreigners with banning transmission of foreign news.

BBC probably did make it difficult for Russian state news to access UK social media users after Russia invaded Ukraine for their "three day special operation" (obviously a lie from the start). They probably did not forbid access to the Russian journalists wanting to film in the UK.

China probably forbids BBC news with their great internet firewall. I know they ban the Tiananmen Square massacre imagery.

I don't think UK forbids Chinese from filming in UK. China did not forbid BBC from filming in China either but they did try to forbid filming the detention centre.

Again: how does China stop every single Uyghur adult from taking pics with their smartphone?

Not "every single Uygur", just the ones locked up. That is how detention works, even in the West.

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

No, not according to the current definition. That is why Ireland is trying to change it. Words change all the time so it is possible.

That would equate Gaza and Ukraine with the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, the nature and magnitude of which were very different. Perhaps they could create a new word for those?

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Yes a higher civilian death ratio in Gaza but the Ukraine military are not in civilian areas.

Admittedly Russia actually targets civilians but it is with long range missiles and drones, most of which get intercepted.

That article says Ireland is also trying to expand the definition of genocide to include Ukrainian deaths. I don't know why it does not fit the definition currently; perhaps because Russia are not trying to wipe out the Ukrainian population? I dunno. Get back to us if you find out.

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Am just pointing out the legal definition of the word regardless of whether courts are just

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (6 children)

Not a shred of photographic evidence

That is misleading. Why did authorities try to stop BBC from filming?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=t28nnviKar4

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

Potatoes are cheap by weight. Machine saw a single item and didn't believe it was a potato. Not that anything looks similar; it just flags it for staff to check.

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Where should the Israel Jews go now though?

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Iranian citizens are not being targeted whereas Iran (and previously Hezbollah) bombed at least one Israeli town where there are no military.

[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

Not "literally". Ireland is trying to expand the definition in the ICJ to make it so though.

Ireland will not be asserting if genocide is being committed, but asserting its interpretation of the Genocide Convention.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce48wpd08pgo

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