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As we've already seen with #Ruzzia, "International Law" is completely toothless and is certainly not going to stop the 4th largest military in the world from doing exactly what it wants to do.
Don't hold your breath waiting on The Hague to do a damn thing either.
Yeah, but it's not like US or China that funds their own military.
If UN members flat out said these actions mean they can no longer fund Israels military...
Israel might be able to coast for a couple months, but they'd immediately know they're on a countdown clock.
They'd either have to make a legitimate push for peace, or try to placate their former donors. Which in that case would be the same thing.
If UN members flat out said these actions mean they can no longer fund Israels military…
That's a good idea.
There's a reason the BDS movement has so many opponents.
Sanctions are like the only way to hold Israel accountable, and Israel knows that.
It's a good idea, just not a unique one. Lots of people have realized it.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/9/18172826/bds-law-israel-boycott-states-explained
There is a reason they are not members of the ICC, because they don't want to be held accountable for their war crimes.
Didn't the hamas attack target civilians?
So what did international law due to punish them ? Nothing ?
Then I guess Isreal has nothing to worry about
So what did international law due to punish them ? Nothing ?
I think allowing the fourth largest military power in the world to drop hundreds of bombs, kill civilians - many of them children, and force them to flee from their homes so they can grab even more land, and still have nations within the UN who are punished for even trying to speak out against it is plenty.
How much more do you want?
The fact that Israel has gone this far isn't enough for you? Is genocide really where you'll call it even?
So I think.iseral paid.enough with terrorists attacking music festivals , raping and killing women and children .
Guess international law doesn't matter right ?
Holy moly that's a bold statement!!
If that's what it takes for Israel to have paid enough then why isn't it enough for Palestine to deal with this extremely exaggerated offensive after decades of having their homes stolen and families murdered? Sure, Israel absolutely paid a heavy price. But at the hands of Israel, this has been daily life in Palestine for decades.
And international law doesn't matter? When has it mattered at all to Israel what international law is? The international laws it's broken in the last week alone is absolutely horrific.
If you're really unbiased, please take a look at what Israel is really doing. What they're doing is genocide. It's ethnic cleansing. It's apartheid. After WWII, you'd think that Israel would know better than anyone how horrifying those words are, and vow to never have such words repeated, let alone be the ones committing them.
Why not just pull up every encounter between Isreal and Gaza and figure out how many lives each side gets to take and then no kne speaks of it again ?
Doesn't matter there won't be a Gaza left soon enough
Where are the public calls of powerful Muslim countries for moderation? I haven’t read anything about them.
Not to mention using white phosphorus bombs as well. I’m not for either side but it’s time Israel is held accountable for war crimes.
Yup. Can't understand why UN weapons inspectors allow Israel to have white phosphorus.
Because of bullshit.
You can use them as a "smoke or flash device".
Same way cops can throw smoke/flash grenades that are known to start fires into a house. They can't say they're throwing them to start a fire, but if there's a 10% they start a fire, they'll throw 11 of them.
Gaza is a densely populated as LA, you're not shooting an artillery/bomb worth of it and not hitting a flammable structure. But it's really hard to prove it was used to intentionally start fires.
Fire is the least of problems with white phosphorus. Chemical burns, toxic fumes... You don't care everything is on fire when everything around you is hell.
Source for white phosphorus bombs or it didn't happen. Israel uses it for smoke and flares, not for burning people.
I don't know if Israel indeed used white phosphorus. But whether if it is true or not, why would Israel use white phosphorus for smoke covers when there are smoke shells and flares aplenty? Why do I feel like we're arguing with moral sophistry again, like how how both sides justified using gas chemicals in World War I with "we fired them on open ground not at the troops. It's not our fault if the wind blows the chemicals onto the enemy trenches." Are people that naive to think that Israel won't use white phosphorus on the Palestinian side, if Israel seriously considered the use? Or is there intentional misinformation on this?
I'm glad he made this statement, I don't believe anything he says is genuine but I'm still glad he made this statement.