• wewbull@feddit.uk
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    9 months ago

    Please keep going. The US needs to turn on the Netanyahu government. If the west has any principles it needs to show that nobody is exempt from justice. Not even a “strong ally” who’s people have suffered from historical horrors.

    They need to be tried for war crimes.

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      9 months ago

      I know you didn’t mean bad by it, but talking about justice like that? I know we don’t live in times of Hannibal and an eye for an eye isn’t productive or progressive at all, but Israel, and not just the current scpagoat Bibi the Genocider, has decades of oppression and genocide they have to pay for.

      To even think about justice, Israel needs to:

      • Go back on all the land it invaded and occupies during the current conflict.

      • Give back all the land its “settlers” has stolen through gunpoint.

      • Give back all the land it has taken through direct military invasion.

      • Pay reparation to the next of kin (to those families it didn’t wipe out completely).

      • Pay for all the public amenities and residential structures it has wiped out over and over, basically rebuilding the country, with the interest accumulated through repeated stifling of the Palestinian country.

      • Demilitarized for some decades like the post WWII Germany was justly subjected to.

      • Cede to a UN mandate for its defense so it will be kept in check while also being protected.

      I don’t know why the Jewish people need an ethno-state as if this is the 19th century, but this would be the starters for a justice without uprooting the whole people from the place they have been living in with the land given to them by British lordship and the UN mandate, both of whom have turned a blind eye to genocide, warcrimes and invasions Israel has inflicted in the Middle-East for decades.

      Going back to main topic, I don’t think Biden will do or say anything about the current landgrab and damage Israel has caused. He’ll just play to the downfall of the current scapegoat of the Zionist endeavour, after he has been a good boy for it, and shut the matter until another scapegoat and and excuse for more genocide and landgrab is prepared for the next decade.

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        9 months ago

        All I’m asking for is for the air of invulnerability around so many to be pierced. I know this goes back a long way. I know Netanyahu and co are only the current perpetrators. I know it goes from the person at the top right down to the person “just following orders”. All of it continues while there’s no consequences, and there will never be consequences until nations change their stances towards todays situation.

        We can’t change yesterday. We can only learn from it. Only tomorrow can be made better, and IMHO it needs leaders to understand they are not above the law. Unfortunately the idea behind Magna Carta seems to have expired.