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.
So what are we going to do about it? Because it better fucking not be absolutely nothing. History will not be kind to us for our response to this.
If Israel is above the law, why not Putin? Why not Kim Jong Un?
Because those guys are on our team and those guys are on the other team.
We’re going to vote for Joe Biden, even though he has facilitated this genocide, because somehow Trump would be worse than 10,000 dead children. /s
Trump would be worse yes. Cause the Palestine situation would most likely get worse. And a lot of other things as well, like Ukraine. I'm not sure what's so difficult about it.
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.
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.
False dichotomy. People are apoplectic and that's why the rationalizations are happening. I'm not ashamed to admit it.
He means it would be covered entirely differently in the media and you know he ain't wrong, that's probably why you're deflecting instead of responding honestly.
I’m not sure I follow your dialectic, or if I even want to.
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?
Too bad no such thing has existed in American presidential elections since the 70s at the latest.
It's not difficult. Let me break it down for the smooth brained repubs with fewer brain cells than teeth:
Orange Man want sell guns. Orange Man want brown people die.
Biden use political pressure. Biden try slow down Israel.
Pootin want orange Man. Pootin want use conflict to divide left.
With 30,000 dead Palestinians and 10,000 of them children. I’m not sure I trust your phrenology.
Shocked, SHOCKED that someone who supports Palestine thinks that Israeli lives are worthless.
How you inferred that from my comments is insane.
Trump will continue this and do worse things, don't be naive
So the guy that self immolated yesterday was… naive?
Did he advocate for Trump over Biden?
Last time Trump was in office, he killed a million people in America alone with covid.
If you want to do this gross tragedy Olympics shit you should at least consider that there are around 600k people in Gaza and over 300 million in America.
To make this argument honestly, you should either normalize the numbers against population (spoiler Biden is about 10x worse this way) or compare all the deaths worldwide that could be traced to either one. I suggest you actually do neither of those.
Gaza Strip has a population of 2mil. Gaza (the city) had a population of ~800k before the bombings.
My bad. That’s what I get for trusting what google plastered at the top of the results page. With that number figured in, Biden is just 3x worse.
You would have to be literally retarded to believe who the president was affected that to any great degree.
Source?
Come on man. Don’t defend Trump, we all lived through that shit.
Then stop making me. Posting misinformation about the number of deaths he caused is just as bad as the Q-anon conservatives. Trump could have prevented 330,000 or so deaths. So don’t exaggerate. It tarnishes credibility.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-misinformation-and-the-partisan-divide-drove-a-surge-in-u-s-covid-deaths
I dispute the broad generalization that Trump killed 1 million people, not his contribution to the pandemic. From what I’m reading, @ 330,000 deaths could have been prevented.
How about the 1.2 millions Americans that died from covid while Trump down played a global pandemic?
History will be fine with us since we will be making the text books
Well I know what I would write and it would not be fine.
..They are? I thought we knew this.