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Craig Mokhiber, director of human rights body, accuses the US, UK and much of Europe as ‘wholly complicit in the horrific assault’

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

“The current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, rooted in an ethno-nationalist colonial settler ideology, in continuation of decades of their systematic persecution and purging, based entirely upon their status as Arabs … leaves no room for doubt.”

Are we sure he just wasn't retiring due to his age? This statement seems pretty vague.

edit: for clarity, this is sarcasm

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sound pretty clear to me. And if you include the context of each sentence, before and after, I don’t see how much clearer it could get.

He said that the UN had failed to prevent previous genocides against the Tutsis in Rwanda, Muslims in Bosnia, the Yazidi in Iraqi Kurdistan and the Rohingya in Myanmar and wrote: “High Commissioner we are failing again.

“The current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, rooted in an ethno-nationalist colonial settler ideology, in continuation of decades of their systematic persecution and purging, based entirely upon their status as Arabs … leaves no room for doubt.”

Mokhiber added: “This is text book case of genocide” and said the US, UK and much of Europe were not only “refusing to meet their treaty obligations” under the Geneva Conventions but were also arming Israel’s assault and providing political and diplomatic cover for it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're 100% correct. I was making a joke about the people saying otherwise. I did an edit, but it wasn't fast enough to save you the time. Thank you for the correction.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better than Murphy's Law, because when that one strikes Matthew Mcconaughey falls out of a higher dimensional bookshelf worm hole in your ceiling. He is not fun company and keeps telling you to "just roll with it."

[–] Aceticon 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Around here Murphy's Law strikes as something like "After 1/2h writting a well though insightful comment, just before the the would be commenter presses 'Reply' he up/downvotes the parent comment, thus losing the entire text of his own not yet posted comment"

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

Halloweens over and yet you come with the spookiness. You gave me a small shiver with that one. It felt all too familiar.

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

Yes, read his letter giving notice.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sorry, /s. I might need to start clarifying that more. I appreciate the response

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I ate the onion. Sorry, the tone of this particular discussion had me feeling frustrated.

[–] qnick -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

based entirely upon their status as Arabs

Why Israel doesn't genocide 2 million Arabs that are Israeli citizens?

[–] ikidd 11 points 1 year ago

They don't have any land the Israeli right wing nuts want.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Prison industrial pipelines do make for that sweet legal slave labor. If it's good enough for the US?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Time and opportunity?