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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.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 150 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 80 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That and brown people don't count as people.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 48 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That's the bigger one. They're happy to enforce the rules on brown people when they attack brown people, or white people on white people, and all hell is unleashed when it's brown on white, but when it's mostly white Israelis on mostly brown Palestinians you get crickets.

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[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 64 points 6 months ago

Clown country

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 59 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Holy hell, how can he say that with a straight face?

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[–] xor@infosec.pub 36 points 6 months ago (2 children)

i knew biden would be disappointing but fuck... not "incredibly horrible"

so, now the election is between incredibly horrible and unimaginably worse...

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 6 months ago (38 children)

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.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The #1 thing I've noticed this go round is how the best even the most dem pundits and supporters can come up with is "Yeah Biden does it but Trump will do it worse"

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I’m not even convinced that’s true when it comes to this issue. Trump, at least, narcissistically cares about what people think of him enough that he could maybe be swayed by public opinion. Biden has been a hardline Zionist his entire career and sees backing Israel to the hilt despite the public outcry as a moral imperative.

Besides, how do you get worse than eagerly aiding a genocide?

[–] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

when Trump was in office, liberals at least pretended to care. They took COVID somewhat seriously, masked up out of spite, they paid lip service to the BLM protests. These past 4 years they've truly gone back to brunch. maybe if ol' Mango Mussolini gets back in, they'll pretend to give a shit again.

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Yeah. I don’t know Trump would help this situation at all but it wouldn’t be this bullshit. That’s for sure. And I want to be very clear I do not and did not want a president trump.

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[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 :(

[–] xor@infosec.pub 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Arelin@lemmy.zip 34 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Thought this was an Onion article from the headline

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 6 months ago

the US says it has not ~~found~~ looked for evidence of Israel violating humanitarian law.

FTF them.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 30 points 6 months ago

US is an accomplice, so of course they can't admit to Israel violating international law.

[–] init@lemmy.ml 29 points 6 months ago

"We have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing"

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 29 points 6 months ago

Why would anybody think that the US could have beef with settlers killing civilians?

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.ml 27 points 6 months ago

Cops investigated themselves and found no wrong doing

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

US/Europe's support of Israel and condemnation of Russia pretty much just shows the rest of the world what hypocrites they are.

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 months ago

Since when is the US government the IC-fucking-J?

[–] Scary_le_Poo 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

The reason is that it has not issued any findings yet. It is going to in a few months.

This is clever wordplay, nothing more.

Edit: fuck me, it's as if no one gives a shit about the truth anymore. It's all kneejerk reactions.

This is a non-story. Governments don't just willy nilly declare that somebody has or has not committed a war crime. It goes through an entire process. That process has not completed yet (in the US anyway). There are no findings yet. Therefore until the findings are released, the US has not found that Israel has done anything.

[–] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You seem to be a very savvy individual. Would you be interested in purchasing a bridge?

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[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So in your opinion the US will bring the genociders to court a few months after there's no one left to kill and that's normal

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[–] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 months ago (4 children)

And anyone trusts anything the US says why?

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[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 months ago

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?"

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[–] LemonLord@endlesstalk.org 12 points 6 months ago

Axis of Genocide: Washington, London, Berlin, Tel Aviv.

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

That is because Washington sees white people as human, and everyone else as subhuman.

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[–] dan42O@infosec.pub 11 points 6 months ago

Day after day, US gov and ‘Is-not-real’ digging their own graves.

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