Originally Posted by
Blue Skies
What a surprise, these allegations by Israel of 12 staff members of the UNWRA (the United Nations Work & Relief Aid for Palestine) which Israel has wanted to get rid of for years, & which pretty much the entire population of Gaza depend on to stay alive, are produced by Israel straight after the International Court of Justice produces its ruling inferring Israel may be committing genocide on the Palestinian people & must do everything in its power to prevent acts of genocide.
Meanwhile this Netanyahu extreme RW govt & Israel a self programmed democracy based on Western values, goes on trashing every International Humanitarian Law & Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which it is a signatory to, the Geneva Convention which it is a signatory to, says it will ignore any rulings made by the International Court of Justice, thumbing its nose at President Biden's pleas for restraint, openly committing war crimes, bombing hospitals, schools, homes, even attacking Aid Convoys, displacing more than 1.9 million people, most for the 4th time, killing over 26,000 people mostly women & children, hundreds of thousands of starving children, over 60,000 injured, telling people to move to an area & then bombing them.
Israel has become a Pariah State.
Anyone who has any respect for Humanitarian rights & the rule of Law can see that.
And that's what almost half of Democrats in the US & the majority of the world are seeing now.
Even some of Netanyahu's Generals & a former Israeli PM say he's putting his own interests and survival ahead of the interests of Israel.
This is much bigger than Gaza now, we are openly seeing the violation & trashing of all the Humanitarian Laws & Conventions , the authority of organisations like the UN, mechanisms like the International Court of Justice, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, etc which were established after the horrors of the Second World War to try to prevent those ever happening again.
And this not by a rogue Nation or terrorist organisation, but by a supposedly successful democracy based on Western values, Israel.
On another note, recently Bernie Sanders tried to get a Resolution passed requesting the State Dept check US weapons being supplied to Israel were not in violation of US Law by being used in the process of committing war crimes.
Only 11 of 100 Senators voted to move the Resolution up to even being considered for a vote!