The Israeli government has failed to comply with at least one measure in the legally binding order from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in South Africa’s genocide case, Human Rights Watch said today. Citing warnings about “catastrophic conditions” in Gaza, the court ordered Israel on January 26, 2024, to “take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian aid,” and to report back on its compliance to the specific measures “within one month.”
One month later, however, Israel continues to obstruct the provision of basic services and the entry and distribution within Gaza of fuel and lifesaving aid, acts of collective punishment that amount to war crimes and include the use of starvation of civilians as a weapon of war. Fewer trucks have entered Gaza and fewer aid missions have been permitted to reach northern Gaza in the several weeks since the ruling than in the weeks preceding it, according to United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
“The Israeli government is starving Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians, putting them in even more peril than before the World Court’s binding order,” said Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch. “The Israeli government has simply ignored the court’s ruling, and in some ways even intensified its repression, including further blocking lifesaving aid.”
Human Rights Watch found in December 2023 that Israeli authorities are using starvation as a weapon of war. Pursuant a policy set out by Israeli officials and carried out by Israeli forces, the Israeli authorities are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, willfully impeding humanitarian assistance, apparently razing agricultural areas, and depriving the civilian population of objects indispensable to its survival.
One is our present reality, the other is a hypothetical future. That’s what makes it so difficult.
The purpose of voting is to improve the future.
Then why don’t we vote that way?
We do, if “we” are European.
It’s not as difficult as your presentation makes it sound. This should be a lay-up for the Grand Old Party. I could accept a moderately conservative truly moral alternative to cosigning Israel’s strategic suicide. Instead the party heads are too scared of the base (must not have any guns) to put their true enemy in prison where he belongs.
Too bad no such thing has existed in American presidential elections since the 70s at the latest.
The 80s had national morality prescribed by televangelists.
Yup, all of which are of course thoroughly immoral hypocrites. The “trickle down” fiscal policies and the ramping up of the oppressive “war on drugs” were immoral as hell too.
If this election isn’t difficult for you, maybe meditate on why that is. 30,000 dead. 10,000 children. If Trump had done this, people would be apoplectic. Instead, we get rationalizations on why Biden is necessary. This is not an easy choice for me. And I’m not ashamed to admit it.
You think Trump would stand up to Israel?
No. Do you think Biden would stand up to Israel?
So if neither would stand up to Israel, what makes Trump preferable to Biden?
Vote for Pedro.
False dichotomy. People are apoplectic and that’s why the rationalizations are happening. I’m not ashamed to admit it.
I’m not sure I follow your dialectic, or if I even want to.
It’s not mine in the first place, you’re trying to tell me that I should have this extra manufactured tension weighing down on me about the general election and I’m telling you how you have it backwards and why.
I wouldn’t call 30,000 deaths, 10,000 of them children, “extra manufactured tension.” If caring about that is backwards, I don’t ever want to be straight.
Politics requires sophisticated decision making. Do you think that body count would have been higher with Trump in office instead of Biden, lower, or the same? Don’t feel obligated to respond, just understand why your argument doesn’t seem to be working. You can read more of my comments if you want more of my perspective and positions or not. Your reply is perfectly rational but so is mine.
Fucking hypotheticals. People are dying now. Today! Fuck the election and your liberal comforts. Genocide Deniers aren’t rational.
I hear Biden getting shit over Israel all the time! The hell do you mean?
I have a difficult time responding to discordant logic. My mind doesn’t work that way.
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With 30,000 dead Palestinians and 10,000 of them children. I’m not sure I trust your phrenology.
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How you inferred that from my comments is insane.
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Someone didn’t read the article. Let’s check the calipers…
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You’re a troll 🧌
https://www.theonion.com/dying-gazans-criticized-for-not-using-last-words-to-con-1850925657
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Alright, here’s a thought for you:
Israel has progressively colonised Palestine, forcing the historical residents to abandon their homes or be victims to brutal violence at the hand of settlers, while Israeli police intentionally fail to act. Israel maintains a blockade of Gaza, massively restricting their access to basic necessities. After decades of what is, effectively, a modern apartheid state, with protests brutally suppressed, it was inevitable that the Palestinian population would turn to violence.
Not only that, but Netanyahu’s government has directly supported Hamas in order to prevent legitimate Palestinian governance and cooperation.
This is very literally an oppressed native population rising up against colonisers - by the sounds of it, colonisers supported by you.