Craig Mokhiber, director of human rights body, accuses the US, UK and much of Europe as ‘wholly complicit in the horrific assault’
I’m so heart broken and disturbed that we are just sliding this actively under the carpet.
History is NOT going to remember our part in this kindly.
Israel is playing a really dangerous game here. Not just in terms of its barbarism towards the Palestinians but because they’re risking the destabilization of the whole region.
Saudi Arabia is still talking normalization. The whole point of Iran providing the Oct 6th missles was to stop that. Looks like the region is stabilizating despite this.
Well now you’re selling it to me. Anything to remove religion from the face of Earth would help Humanity long-term
Ah yes atheists telling people they’re better while showing that they aren’t.
This is just some edgy prick being distasteful for kicks.
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Yeah eliminating religion is also doing that. Religion is typically an excuse not a reason for war
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If you think that will stop humans from killing each other or finding ways to manipulate others for power, I’ve got some Magical Beans for Sale!
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Maybe you should let that wound heal before you start picking it in public
Bro touch grass and get over yourself
The support of the US, the UK, France, Germany and some smaller European countries like Austria needs to be constantly pointed out, as does their profound, two-weights two-measures, hypocrisy when you look at their differing postures on the situation in Ukraine vs the situation in Palestine.
This would never have happenned (including Hamas’ terrorist attacks) if Israel had long ago been hit with sanctions for not abiding to the UN-agreed borders and their Appartheid state, just like South-Africa was (interestingly, the UK back then also “unwaveringly” supported the Appartheid regime in SA) until they changed their ways, and even now that it has happenned, the continued “unwavering” provision of material, information and even diplomatic support to an Israel already commiting Genocide means the leaders of those nations - and by extension the nations themselves (all of which are supposedly democracies) - share the blame for this Genocide.
There are and always will be nations that fall to Fascism like Israel, and whilst fascists applying their “Strength is the only way” view of the world by acting in violent ways without any moral considerations is their choice and hence their fault, the entirety of the fault is not only theirs: those who provide cover and support the fascists are also to blame for freeing them to act as they do, and worse, those supporting the fascists in their exercise of violence are de facto accomplices in their violent deeds - they might not be the one “holding the knife” in the murder but they certainly provided it knowing what it was going to be used for.
History is written by the victors, and we have more sticks.
Something tells me your stick looks like a half a stack of dimes
I hate this.
I hate when good people step down.
They just open the door for some tool to step in and make the problem normal.
Good people letting themselves be complicit in bad things, whilst they are powerless to do good, helps no one.
He was retiring anyways, just found a good moment to retire
Doesn’t really look like he’s retirement age yet.
I mean, cool, but he’s 64 and is retiring. He started at the UN in '92. He announced that he would retire in March of this year. Most sources list that now.
So it’s more of a ‘i don’t need to deal with this insane bullshit so I’m taking my very healthy retirement package and heading out’ more than a ‘im taking a moral stand and leaving my dream career over this insane bullshit’
Good headlines though.
I mean, it can be both. That resignation letter is damning.
He’s definitely upset, can’t argue that.
More often, threat of resignation is a political tool to sway others. I mean, if everyone knows that the person threatening to resign is that good and irreplaceable, others would cave in. I don’t know how the UN works behind closed doors, and how capable Mokhiber is, but we’ll see if this works and the UN comes begging for him to return.
This guy gave a absolutely amazing interview today. Completely destroys israel, doesn’t even go for the softy 2state.
“Mokhiber, who was stepping down having reached retirement age…”
I’m so desperate for any one in power to do something, I’ll take this anyway
While sometimes positions have a requirement to retire at a certain age and/or tenure, most don’t — I’m not sure if this particular role has such requirements. My reading of this is that while he was eligible to retire, he probably was not required to. Many people work past retirement eligibility.
“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
Yes, read his letter giving notice.
sorry, /s. I might need to start clarifying that more. I appreciate the response
I ate the onion. Sorry, the tone of this particular discussion had me feeling frustrated.
based entirely upon their status as Arabs
Why Israel doesn’t genocide 2 million Arabs that are Israeli citizens?
They don’t have any land the Israeli right wing nuts want.
That’s a workforce.
Prison industrial pipelines do make for that sweet legal slave labor. If it’s good enough for the US?
Time and opportunity?
What grade of marxist/leninist shit is he smoking?
Oh hey boo, haven’t seen you since you tried to say all the Jewish people should flee Detroit for fear of being murdered in religiously targeted hate crimes. What you been doing gurl?
I was wrong, it’s all the terrorist flag waving, pro-genocidal chanting, revolutionary socialists and useful idiots for Iran, China, and Russia that should be leaving.
I hate to break it to you, but your track record of wrongness has not improved. Perhaps some courses at the community college may do some good?
The people I’ve seen entering the workforce out of college lately have been absolute morons that couldn’t figure out how to push a broom if it came with an instruction manual. So I’m going to have to pass on that idea.
Are you calling them stupid, education stupid, or are you just saying they’re poor workers?
Can someone help me understand how this is positive? Or is it just abjectly hopeless and bleak, and that’s the reason he did what he did?
Seems to me that leaving your role because of your opposing views allows those you disagree with to fill it themselves. Typically with someone who agrees with them.
I guess that might answers my question: he felt hopeless.
At that level “resignation” = terminated politely.
The context you’re missing is that he’s retiring. So, he gets to make a grand statement while also handing it off like he was going to anyways.
Where’s the lie though?
Hero!
Why is everyone so black and white on this issue? Israel has a right to exist. Palestine has a right to exist. It shouldn’t be hard to understand.
You can’t ‘both sides’ an issue where one side is commiting genocide and settler colonialism and the other doesn’t have access to clean water and electricity. That shouldn’t really be that hard to understand either
Its is a ‘both sides’ issue when the Palestinian side has rejected every peace deal, commits terrorist attacks, and calls for the genocide of Jews. Nobody looks good in this conflict.
Palestinian side? What the fuck are you talking about. Stop conflating hamas with all of palestine. It’s like conflating israel with all jews. You’re just being racist. Hamas has also repetedly requested a cease fire that israel always refuses so you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. Stop trying to act like an enlightened centrist in a conflict you clearly know nothing about.
Hamas is the ruling, elected authority of Gaza. And even before them, other Palestinian officials have rejected multiple peace deals. That doesn’t mean all Palestinians are culpable, the same way not all Israelis are responsible for Netanyahu’s actions.
Ah yes just keep lying about how Israel totally didn’t sabotage those peace deals deliberately.
Yeah it’s so infuriating when people don’t acknowledge the very clear reality that if the shoe was on the other foot then the genocide would have happened long ago.
Also this isn’t just Palestine it’s very clearly a lot of fundamentalist terror groups and countries like Iran. There are very real and scary threats to Israel, Hamas gets huge funding and help from so many places - which they use almost exclusively to build combat tunnels and rockets.
It’s horrible for the Palestinian people but Israel isn’t the only one making their lives hard, Hamas isn’t about helping Palestinians it’s about hurting Jews and if their own people dying helps then they’re fine with it
Yeah it’s so infuriating when people don’t acknowledge the very clear reality that if the shoe was on the other foot then the genocide would have happened long ago.
Also this isn’t just Israel it’s very clearly a lot of fundamentalist terror groups and countries like the USA. There are very real and scary threats to Palestine, Israel gets huge funding and help from so many places - which they use almost exclusively to build tanks and rockets.
It’s horrible for the Israeli people but Hamas isn’t the only one making their lives hard, Likud isn’t about helping Israelis it’s about hurting Arabs and if their own people dying helps then they’re fine with it.
The more I read up on the history, the more I understand Israel’s “right to exist” took a huge bite out of Palestine’s “right to exist”. The Nakba in 1948 most prominently, and annexations in Gaza, Sinai, West Bank and Golan Heights ever since (some temporary - Sinai and former settlements in Gaza - and the rest very much permanent).
It’s one thing to say an annexation of land is ancient history, but there are people alive who were displaced by Israel 75 years ago and are still living in refugee camps. We have two very incompatible things going on right now - Israel is basically screaming for blood because of Oct 7, and they are also living on recently stolen land that calls for reparations to be made to the Palestinian people - if you brought up the latter in this environment, you’d probably be accused of “supporting Hamas”, but it’s something that’s been true for decades. Really exhausting dynamic.
Im about 90% sure at least half the comments on lemmy, reddit, insertsocialmediahere are either bots or mass targeting one side of an agenda.
Cool. Whatever.
