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[–] givesomefucks 74 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Israel ignored an order from the U.N.’s top court to halt its military offensive in southern Gaza after South Africa accused Israel of genocide. Russia, too, has ignored the court’s call for it to end its invasion of Ukraine.

There is zero logical reason to treat Russia and Israel differently.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

politics has never been logical.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The article on the post links to another one, https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-palestinians-court-ceasefire-01d093d21a1eadaa31af5708cf1cbf38

From that,

stopped short of ordering a cease-fire for the enclave

Hmm, but what does it mean to halt a military offensive without having a cease-fire?

While I don't understand that bit, this part here I do.

the court doesn’t have a police force to enforce its orders.

I think in general we do need to have these international courts examining these situations and making rulings about it. It provides necessary justification to individual countries to back Palestine and condemn Israel, especially while Oct 7 remains unforgotten and unsolved.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You're wrong. There's one reason (whether it's logical or not, I'm not discussing it):

The US supports one but not the other one.

Edit: Seeing the downvotes, the message might have been misunderstood: what I'm saying is that if we're treating them differently it is only because the US supports Israel so Netanyahu the nazi gets a free pass.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

idk if it matters, but there is the nuance that russia and Ukraine were friends once and russia backstabbed them, while palestine and israel never were friends and it's a smoldering conflict with 80 years of atrocities on both sides, that now escalated into this new dimension of a shitshow.

[–] givesomefucks 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

People of all religions used to coexist in the area before the Brits declared they were in charge and segregation was a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ThePyroPython 2 points 2 months ago

No flag, no country, those are the rules I just made up!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The Brits? Try the Third Crusade.

[–] xhrit 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Jews did not have equal rights in the Jerusalem Sanjak until the Ottoman Reform Edict of 1856.

Before that you had things like the 1847 ethnic cleansing of Jews in Jerusalem, or the 1834 looting of Safed.

[–] givesomefucks 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's not true, but you said it confidently so people upvoted it without source...

[–] Doorbook -1 points 2 months ago

Also this goal post moving back when we talk about something happening today is stupid. If the Ottoman had a rule that they live together then we can assume that has nothing to do with the UK Shipping Jewish and Zionist from Europe to peaceful country.

First sucide bomber was Christian, First terrorists group is what today called IDF. People from these generation still alive today. And this why this is not "Jew vs Arab" this is "Zionist vs Palestinians"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The both sides argument ignores the difference in scale. Palestinian atrocities are on the scale or killing a family or blowing up a bus, while Israeli atrocities are more on the massacring a village or blowing up a 100 member family to oblivion level.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago

You understand that's only from lack of resources? It's not from lack of trying?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There is zero logical reason to treat Russia and Israel differently.

There remains one important difference - Oct 7

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Politics under the guise of religious differences?

[–] fluxion 1 points 2 months ago

And somehow Israel gets military aid in the exact same US bill that allocated Ukraine's aid and nobody's head exploded: no politician, no mainstream journalists...