US says Israel has not violated international law during Gaza war
US says Israel has not violated international law during Gaza war
After Israel killed aid workers in Gaza, the US says it has not found evidence of Israel violating humanitarian law.
After Israel killed seven aid workers in Gaza, the US says it has not found any incidents of Israel violating international humanitarian law in the past six months. An Al Jazeera probe concluded the World Central Kitchen vehicles were deliberately hit.
Israel, with US backing, is destroying the concept of international law. It's now clear to everyone that the so-called international rules based order isn't real and that the rules only apply to US enemies like Russia.
I think we're seeing a repeat of the League of Nations.
That and brown people don't count as people.
Clown country
I wish it was more funny :(
How it feels to be me whenever the White House talks about israel:
Oh god dammit put down the monkey paw, we just had this with the last guy.
Holy hell, how can he say that with a straight face?
Politicians are professional liars
And I'm really insulted they're not doing a better job.
Thought this was an Onion article from the headline
i knew biden would be disappointing but fuck... not "incredibly horrible"
so, now the election is between incredibly horrible and unimaginably worse...
Love that americans are still worried about elections of all things as if anything other than organized violence will stop a capitalist government from committing genocide.
Hey we're not hungry enough yet. Violence is scary and we won't do it till we absolutely gotta. I mean we absolutely gotta but even as i know this I'm not picking up a gun yet, i still have a lot to lose. It's not like it's just here in the states, it's happening all over the western world. When will you decide to take up arms and take your life back?
I'm not attacking you, just putting you in my yankee shoes
Sufficiently grand disorganized violence or sufficiently organized property destruction could also work.
Yup :(
I don't envy you Americans. Here in Canada we have our own set of idiots too and it almost always boils down to voting for the least worst person :(
democracy under capitalism = fascism in cosplay
no matter how much you organize, grassroots, and petition... evil bastards will steamroll your movements with cash, and add a little concession to whatever you were riling people up about...
then you get to vote for the guy pandering to you or the guy who isn't, but they'll both do the same shit... give more money to rich people any way possible.
Brought to you by the same country that invaded iraq for Weapons of Mass Destruction that were never found..
And Iraq the first time, for the incubator lie ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony )
and about 400 other countries before and since that
the US says it has not
foundlooked for evidence of Israel violating humanitarian law.FTF them.
American officials scoured their own belly buttons, even removing some old cotton, but found no evidence of Israel violating humanitarian laws.
Seriously, I bet any investigation went something like "Hay Ari, sorry I have to ask, it's just a technicality, you see... you're following all humanitarian laws, right?", and then their IDF lunch buddy went "Absolutely not, we do only the gentlest airstrikes and the Palestinians shake our hands in the rubble afterwards". Grilling the Israelis is something they're not ideologically accustomed to, let alone making them prove anything.
US helps commit genocide.
Which, to be fair, is kind of a step up from their usual.
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And anyone trusts anything the US says why?
Because while it is morally crap. It is technically correct.
Palestine is not recognised as a nation internationally. And historically never has been.
So no international law applies to actions being committed.
That isn't even true in our shitty system.
It has an nation observer seat at the UN, was a nation as a "mandate" after WW1 and the ICJ did make a ruling saying that Genocide was being committed there that the US passed a law threatening Palistine from recognizing.
On top of this most of the world recognized palistine as a country only 55 of the 193 (194 if we are counting the Holy Sea/Vatican City) do not recognize palistine. I would call that International recognition if 139 members of the UN Recognize Palestine.
So I really do not get what you are trying to say here, because it is not even techincaly correct, the International Court of Justice, United Nations General Assembly, International Red Cross Cressent and Crystal have all said it is a vioilation of international law.
This is before I start listing the individual counts of them violating just the geneva conventions, that apply to a signitory when they they fight any war reguardless of if the other side is recognized or a signitory. and agian Palistine is internationaly recognized
Palestine…historically never has been [a nation]
Tell that to my 90-100 years old Palestinian grandparents who still have their official government documents from before the colonizers came barging in in 1948.
Why would anybody think that the US could have beef with settlers killing civilians?
I wish some of the reporters had said to him in the last interview, "so, they've investigated themselves and found they did nothing wrong?"
USian here: Yes they did.
That spokesperson doesn’t reflect well on his agency, our government or our people.
This is why I don't identify as an american, despite my accent.
That is because Washington sees white people as human, and everyone else as subhuman.
This is the correct answer.
I was just gonna say how fucking ironic it is the US became full on Nazis after defeating them 70 years ago. I know Amurica secretly gave the Nazi scientists a place to hide after WWII but what we've become is next level. Or maybe we've always been this way and it's just become more evident. Either way, this backing of genocide, killing semitic people using the name of semetic people is white supremacist as fuck.
World War 2 was about which flavour of white supremacy would rule the World.
/thread
Can't leave out the christ-centrism that the West exhibits en masse, too.
To most christians, killing muslims is a good thing no matter what.
US is an accomplice, so of course they can't admit to Israel violating international law.
Ha, ridiculous BS.
Fuck off.
"We have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing"
Axis of Genocide: Washington, London, Berlin, Tel Aviv.
After policy: When you're the king of the mountain, war crimes are literally what you say they are.
US/Europe's support of Israel and condemnation of Russia pretty much just shows the rest of the world what hypocrites they are.
Cops investigated themselves and found no wrong doing
huh I didn't think the US could have even less credibility on war crimes
Since when is the US government the IC-fucking-J?
Day after day, US gov and ‘Is-not-real’ digging their own graves.
That is what we call a lie by stating a correct statement.
Why? It is only a correct statement because Israel has and had already violated International Law before the recent Gaza war.
A truthful statement would be, "Israel continues to break international law in the current Gaza War as it has done for years and per over 30 UN Resolutions."
The power of words, friends.
Let's say it was Trump's press secretary, and Russia they were defending..
Would you feel any different?
holy hypocracy
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As much as I hate it, from my understanding he's right (expect for genocide). The UN doesn't recognize Palestine as a country. Ergo internal conflict
Genocide is one of the only ways a country can break international laws without an international conflict
Good point well made.
It is also a fair note. That neither Palestine or Israel has any real claim. The state that owned the land. The otterman empire. No longer existed when the land was allocated.
And while the UK allocation of peoples homes was crappy. The fact that the Palestinian peoples leaders refuse to accept any compromise that allows the existence of Israel. Is also the reason the current mess exists.
All sides are pretty fucked up here.
…and America used to be the good guy.
Lmfao. When was that bud? When we killed the natives? When we locked up the Japanese? When we overthrow South American governments?
Maybe it was when we had an economy based on slave labor! If that's the metric we're using, America has been the good guys the whole time it's existed!
I wonder if this will get me downvoted:
Has not found evidence ≠ Has not.
I still think they're blind, but let's not misconstrue what was actually said.
has not found any incidents of Israel violating international humanitarian law in the past six months
Which is obviously a deliberate lie
Edit: Fixed emphasis
To be clear though, this distinction without a difference is precisely how institutions lie, how they set up plausible deniability, and how they end up supporting things like genocide for years.
So there really is no defense of it. Getting mired in the details when the purpose of the lie is clear is to support this kind of propaganda. There is no "Well achktuallly" that can be defended on Israel and the USs ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
You can not find evidence reliably by covering your eyes and ears.
