New UN report outlines the ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’ in Gaza
New UN report outlines the ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’ in Gaza
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14006090
New UN report outlines the ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’ in Gaza
Israel did not participate in the dialogue but issued a press release stating that it “utterly rejects” Ms. Albanese’s report, calling it “an obscene inversion of reality”.
“The very attempt to level the charge of genocide against Israel is an outrageous distortion of the Genocide Convention. It is an attempt to empty the word genocide of its unique force and special meaning; and turn the Convention itself into a tool of terrorists, who have total disdain for life and for the law, against those trying to defend against them,” the release said.
Israel said its war is against Hamas, not Palestinian civilians.
“This is a matter of explicit government policy, military directives and procedures. It is no less an expression of Israel’s core values. As stated, our commitment to uphold the law, including our obligations under international humanitarian law, is unwavering.”
Yes my brother, one party is involved in an obscene inversion of reality and it's the one that says that Israel's commitment to uphold the law, including obligations under international humanitarian law, is unwavering. Along with horrible atrocities in Gaza they have been speed-running colonizing the West Bank in recent months.
Why doesn't Israel just say "yes we are stealing the rest of Palestine now, fuck off" instead of pretending to be the polite (albeit clumsy with the munitions), law-abiding member of the world community, involved in a slight kerfuffle with their neighbor? I mean, they are getting away with it anyway (thanks to U.S. and GER support)... why lie?
I'm not looking forward to how this phase of the ethnic cleansing will be recalled in the future- "The Arabs realized this was a Jewish nation and left willingly, but smashed the TV on the way out".
At least Ms. Albanese touched on the historic depth of this tragedy. That's often purposefully omitted.
Furthermore, “the genocide in Gaza is the most extreme stage of a long-standing settler colonial process of erasure of the native Palestinians,” she continued.
“For over 76 years, this process has oppressed the Palestinians as a people in every way imaginable, crushing their inalienable right to self-determination demographically, economically, territorially, culturally and politically.”
She said the “colonial amnesia of the West has condoned Israel's colonial settler project”, adding that “the world now sees the bitter fruit of the impunity afforded to Israel. This was a tragedy foretold.”
Israel is always throwing tantrums and calling moral adjective when it's caught doing bullshit. Such an self-righteous country. Spoiled brats.
No wonder they invented God. Might be the expression of their ego and their self righteousness.
They blame even God for their atrocities (God told is to commit genocide against Amalek, God told Moses to kill 3000 people due to the Golden Calf, God told us to kill people working on Saturday). If they blame God for their actions, it's very easy for them to also blame Hamas or Palestinians for being genocided
Yes and do you know why we celebrate passover? Because God hardened the Pharaoh's heart to not let the Isrealites leave Egypt, so He could test these new weapons on Egyptian civilians (who had no power over the Pharaoh). They were plagues and now they're "battle tested". And
Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.
Exodus 11:5
Like with Amalek, not even the cows could catch a break! Pretty violent tradition.
Gimme a break... A war with supposedly 20000 casualties in a highly dense country with 2 million people is NOT a genocide.
If Hamas and the palestinians want the war to be over, they could just give back the hostages they took on October 7...
Pretty simple really
Read the current ICJ express rulings. It's plausibly a genocide, given politicians and citizen's of Israel statements on this issue, and their actions
At this point just drop the weasel words and say it plain. It is a genocide by all accounts. Its not going to change anything, but call it like it is already.