“That single choice—target the leak, not the rapists —is the moral map for everything that followed.”
4 Likes
Moral bankrupcy. 100%.
2 Likes
Really nice, that ‘cease-fire’.
4 Likes
1 Like
Yeah, that cease fire seemed obvious bull from day one
1 Like
1 Like
What could possibly go wrong ?
3 Likes
From two days ago:
“We are going to lose lives this winter. Children, families will perish,” says Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
“It’s actually so frustrating that we’ve now lost so many crucial weeks since the adoption of the Trump peace plan, which said humanitarian aid would flow and the Palestinians would not needlessly continue to suffer.”
Shows again that this so-called “Trump peace plan” is nothing but a scam.
3 Likes
Nicolas Guillou cannot shop online. When he used Expedia to book a hotel in his own country, the reservation was cancelled within hours. He is “blacklisted by much of the world’s banking system”, unable to use most bank cards.
Who is this man you ask? What did he do to deserve this? The answer is - he did his job. Nicolas Guillou is a judge at the International Criminal Court. He ruled that Benjamin Netanyahu and other members of the Israeli terror regime, have arrest warrants put out on them last year. Since then he, and ALL THE JUDGES who agreed, have been under attack by the United States government… for upholding international law.
All are now barred from entering the US – but that is the least of the consequences.
The rationale is brutally clear. The rule of law does not apply to the world’s hegemon or its closest allies. This was bluntly spelled out by Republican senator Lindsey Graham, who told the ICC chief prosecutor, Karim Khan – himself sanctioned – that the ICC was “made for Africa and thugs like Putin, not democracies like Israel”. The US refused to sign up to the court, clearly fearing that its propensity to commit war crimes in foreign lands would lead to prosecutions. That put Washington in the same bracket as human rights abusers like China, Russia and indeed Israel. Only because Palestine acceded to the court a decade ago does the ICC now have jurisdiction over crimes committed on its territory or by its citizens.
Guillou and his colleagues issued their warrants after a lengthy, cautious legal process. The case against the Israeli politicians focused on the use of starvation, which Israeli leaders routinely confessed to. Gallant had announced “a complete siege on the Gaza Strip” on the grounds Israel was fighting “human animals”, while Netanyahu declared: “We will not allow humanitarian assistance in the form of food and medicines from our territory to the Gaza Strip.” In spring 2024, two US government agencies concluded that Israel was deliberately blocking humanitarian aid – an assessment that, according to US legislation, required halting all arms transfers. The US government disregarded its own law.
The obliteration of Gaza, the indiscriminate killing of its people, the systematic targeting of civilian infrastructure – we could go on – has led to a consensus among genocide scholars that Israel is committing genocide. But for the US and its allies, maintaining Israel’s impunity matters more than preserving any semblance of an international order. Nearly four decades ago, the then senator Joe Biden told Congress that Israel was “the best $3bn investment we make”, claiming that “were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region”. The US regards Israel as an indispensable strategic asset, which is why it is the biggest ever recipient of US foreign aid, including military assistance. Washington will keep supplying the weapons that enable Israeli war crimes – and then threaten anyone who tries to hold the perpetrators to account.
Western liberals are divided between justifying or whitewashing Israel’s livestreamed genocide, or issuing empty, hand-wringing platitudes. Whatever remained of that political tradition lies buried in Gaza’s pulverised landscape. Much of the world has witnessed Israel’s daily atrocities against the Palestinian people – including in the US itself, where half the population think genocide was committed, with only a little over a third denying it. Who will ever again accept western lectures on human rights or the “rules-based order”?
The international legal system was always tilted in the west’s favour. That South Africa dared to accuse a key western ally of genocide at the international court of justice tells its own story, as does the support it received from much of the global south and European states such as Spain. The same logic applies to the ICC, which many western states assumed would be used only against their enemies or powerless nations. That this assumption no longer holds is itself a measure of western decline. Waging a campaign against judges who apply the law consistently will not arrest that fall. It will accelerate it. The west’s own hubris sent its power into freefall in the 21st century. There is still a long way down.
4 Likes
To me, the first paragraph is in some ways the most important. All of the rest is fairly obvious, and really depends on one’s views of the conflict. But the first is an illustration of the enormous power that the US is able to wield through control of the financial/information system in the West, and by default much of the world. That is quite simply not a neutral power.
7 Likes
1 Like
Guilty then
1 Like
2 Likes
Maybe don’t platform such ragebait?
2 Likes
I know. It’s pointless even looking at these. Just ruins your mood.
Am watching Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown from season 2. Gaza and Jerusalem. Filmed in 2013.
So sad to know that so many of these people are now gone from violence. So incredibly fucking sad.
2 Likes