They are trying a genocide, looking like the villain while doing it kind of comes with the territory.
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They are trying a genocide, looking like the villain while doing it kind of comes with the territory.
* She. It was the previous one, not the one that has actually laid the charges.
If you read the articles on this, the timeline makes sense. No one has to be “psychic”.
In 2015 Palestine applied to join the ICC.
Mossad’s harassment of the ICC’s chief prosecutor seems to have begun straight after that.
Israel was already breaching international law with the settlements and flouting of the Geneva Conventions, and had been accused of war crimes in e.g. 2014.
If an entity is repeatedly accused of committing crimes it’s not really some crazy conspiracy if prosecutors start taking an interest in their activities. And the more they escalate their criminal activity the more likely it is that an investigation and eventual warrant will follow.
I feel the same way. He’s not my friend and he’s not a cute kid or something. He’s a genocidal war criminal.
It is pretty bad. The part where the Mossad guy “ambushed” the judge in a hotel room is blatant intimidation.
Idk, I’ve had to deal with coronial inquiries and I can’t imagine what it would be like if the Coroner was just some random person instead of, well, an actual coroner.
It seems like electing your neighbour the lawnmower guy to run your divorce court instead of letting a judge do it.
I agree with you. Beheading means decapitation as a form of execution.
At this point it’s really splitting hairs. The IDF literally has a program called “Where’s Daddy” that allows them to make sure suspects are at home with their families when they bomb them; so I think it’s safe to infer that they intend to kill at least some portion of children.
Ikr! Pretty sure its a reference to the Spanish Inquisition’s expulsion of Jewish people in the 1490s.
In other words it’s not just super random whataboutism, it’s also a dogwhistle to the “chosen people versus antisemitic rest of the world” narrative that Netanyahu et al use to drum up support from their base.
in a major blow to the American-led effort to create
a maritime corridor for humanitarian supplies into the war-torn enclave
in a major blow to the American-led effort to create a ridiculous PR exercise to smokescreen their complicity in the starvation of the genocide-torn occupied territory.
Fixed it for them.
Honestly one of my favourite things in the fediverse.
Their harrassment of Ms Bensouda is super creepy, first they sent an envelope of money to her house and then Mossad came to her in a hotel room:
In one of the earliest encounters, Cohen surprised Bensouda when he made an unexpected appearance at an official meeting the prosecutor was holding with the then DRC president, Joseph Kabila, in a New York hotel suite.
Sources familiar with the meeting said that after Bensouda’s staff were asked to leave the room, the director of the Mossad suddenly appeared from behind a door in a carefully choreographed “ambush”.
Thanks for your comment. Fwiw I get most of my information from credible NGOs, and even if UNRWA was magically 100% terrorists (implausible. I’ve met an Israeli woman who worked as a humanitarian in Gaza and I think she had a pretty good idea of that space) I wouldn’t feel any differently about the Gaza Genocide. Nothing excuses it.
Similarly, preventing civilians losing their lives will always take precedence over preventing civilians losing their jobs.
I’m from a former colony myself, and history has taught that the only ways Israel can avoid being attacked by the people it has dispossessed would be if it either:
stops colonizing/settling/occupying/blockading and makes reparations or
genocides and displaces the population to a tiny fraction.
It’s disappointing that in this day and age most Israeli citizens prefer either option 2 or else the status quo of ongoing occupation and violence, but it’s not that unusual.
Personally, I think Israel is highly unlikely to turn back from genocide now. The only hope is for international intervention.
It does seem to be. The juxtaposition of Russia invading Ukraine and Israel invading Gaza is pretty stark.
Hmm the US isn’t a particularly good example of a democracy.
Part of a wider pattern. The US is losing soft power in many places, I think.
What the actual fuck???
In my country you have to have been a barrister for at least 5 years and in practice it’s longer.
I can’t get my head around this system of having laypersons voting randoms into a position that requires a high level of skill.
Back when they told them to go to that evacuation zone many predicted this is what would happen.
It must be so terrifying to keep being told to move to places and then being attacked when you get to them.
I agree with you, I just mean it’s hard for us to enforce it when we are being blocked by powers like the US etc.
I’m comfortable with my level of engagement thanks.
You seem to have used personal insults on half the people in the thread at this point, and you keep complaining about Lemmy.
I get that you’re frustrated that we’re not talking about whatever it is you want to talk about, but that’s life sometimes.
BRICS is a trading bloc not a military alliance.
Also, BRICS is rumored to be starting its own currency and we have already seen stuff like Sri Lanka using rupees to deal with its economic crisis. That’s going to be very attractive to some countries hence the clamour to join.