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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 63 points 17 hours ago (8 children)

Israel ignored an order from the U.N.’s top court to halt its military offensive in southern Gaza after South Africa accused Israel of genocide. Russia, too, has ignored the court’s call for it to end its invasion of Ukraine.

There is zero logical reason to treat Russia and Israel differently.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 13 points 16 hours ago

politics has never been logical.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

idk if it matters, but there is the nuance that russia and Ukraine were friends once and russia backstabbed them, while palestine and israel never were friends and it's a smoldering conflict with 80 years of atrocities on both sides, that now escalated into this new dimension of a shitshow.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

People of all religions used to coexist in the area before the Brits declared they were in charge and segregation was a good idea.

[–] xhrit@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Jews did not have equal rights in the Jerusalem Sanjak until the Ottoman Reform Edict of 1856.

Before that you had things like the 1847 ethnic cleansing of Jews in Jerusalem, or the 1834 looting of Safed.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

That's not true, but you said it confidently so people upvoted it without source...

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

No flag, no country, those are the rules I just made up!

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 points 15 hours ago

The Brits? Try the Third Crusade.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

The both sides argument ignores the difference in scale. Palestinian atrocities are on the scale or killing a family or blowing up a bus, while Israeli atrocities are more on the massacring a village or blowing up a 100 member family to oblivion level.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee -3 points 14 hours ago

You understand that's only from lack of resources? It's not from lack of trying?

[–] ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

You're wrong. There's one reason (whether it's logical or not, I'm not discussing it):

The US supports one but not the other one.

Edit: Seeing the downvotes, the message might have been misunderstood: what I'm saying is that if we're treating them differently it is only because the US supports Israel so Netanyahu the nazi gets a free pass.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 1 points 15 hours ago

Politics under the guise of religious differences?

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee -4 points 14 hours ago

I don't think it broke international law, well, outside of the civilian casualties.

But... It should have. We need something so you can't do stupid crap like this without some authorization, ie the UN has to sanction it somehow.

Which basically makes it impossible in most cases, but it should be.

[–] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works -1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Well Hamas is no Ukraine but sure

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 17 points 15 hours ago

Hamas isn't a territory. Gaza is. Israel is invading Gaza.