Now try reading what’s written in Arabic.

Could you elaborate a bit?

People make and take illicit drugs all the time. What’s the difference here?

Negative Karma on a post means people cared enough about your writing to downvote it.

Since when does the West Bank have restrictions on Journalists entering?

You don’t believe the president of the court you cite, okay then.

Any nation that murders at least 100,000 children is fucking evil. And those are not Hamas’s numbers. Those are the Lancet medical journals numbers.

That number is an estimate in an opinion piece, not a peer reviewed article. There’s no factual basis. The authors have already regretted putting the numbers in there.

People under 18 are not all children. Young adults of 17 definitely aren’t children like 3 year olds. Plenty of teenagers in Gaza are members of armed groups and participating in the fighting.

That is just one of the reasons the ICC, the organization literally with the legal authority to determine of some thing is genocide or not determined that Israel is plausibly committing genocide.

That is a misrepresentation of what the ICJ ruled. You can’t even tell apart the ICJ and the ICC, it seems. You can’t even get the organization right.

Here you can hear the President of the ICJ explain what is meant by plausible.

“At this stage of the proceedings, the Court is not called upon to determine definitively whether the rights which South Africa wishes to see protected exist,” said the ICJ. “It need only decide whether the rights claimed by South Africa, and for which it is seeking protection, are plausible. “In the Court’s view, the facts and circumstances… are sufficient to conclude that at least some of the rights claimed by South Africa and for which it is seeking protection are plausible.”

Plausible only refers to the right of South Africa to bring this case to the ICJ.

the ICJ had only ruled that Gaza Palestinians had a plausible right to be protected from genocide - in other words, that it had been dealing with a complex and somewhat abstract legal argument.

A day later, Joan Donoghue - now retired from the ICJ - appeared on the BBC’s HARDtalk programme and explicitly tried to end the debate by setting out what the court had done. “It did not decide - and this is something where I’m correcting what’s often said in the media… that the claim of genocide was plausible,” said the judge. “It did emphasise in the order that there was a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide. But the shorthand that often appears, which is that there’s a plausible case of genocide, isn’t what the court decided.”

There’s no genocide going on. It’s a war against an extremely deeply entrenched enemy in a densely populated urban environment.

systemized rape, torture

Rape and torture have happened, but are not systemic.

Israel does questionable and bad things, for sure. However it’s not the most evil state ever, that it’s often depicted as.

Nuance, truth, and perspective of the other side are important in this conflict.

No, idea what you mean by predecessors.

no matter what happened in this single incident

Who cares about the truth.

No

Yes, the Oslo accords also had resistance in Israel. However Israel still made a peace offer and Arafat refused and launched the second intifada. Look up Intrafada to see political murders among Palestinians of the time.

Sure settlers suck and need to be stopped.

The number of dead is asymmetric because Palestinians send their children to attack, including as suicide bombers. Israel is vastly superior in equipment, training, and organization. Of course less Israelis are killed. This tells you nothing about morality, only which side is stronger. Would you be happier if the numbers were equal?

And about Nakba, I really wonder if tomorrow Russia expels 700K Ukrainians, and tell them that they cannot return to their homes you will again shrug it off and say that it is war and that’s what happens in war.

Do you think the great-grandchildren of Ukrainians who fled to Poland today will massacre Russians at a festival in 70 years?

German terrorists don’t shoot unguided rockets at Danzig. Polish terrorists don’t blow up buses in Lviv.

Yes, the human rights situation for Palestinians is bad. It’s especially bad under the Islamist dictatorship of Hamas and the police state of Abu Mazen.

Yes, very easy > explore > hashtags > select follow icon in top right

There are hashtags on Mastodon as well.

Twitter is people based as well, no?

The Armenian genocide was horrible but nowhere near the level of the Holocaust.

I see you’re on the same train of holocaust denial.

Things can be bad without needing a holocaust or Nazi comparison.

Using Nazi and holocaust comparisons for Israel is always antisemitic in nature. It only serves demonization, delegitimization, hate mongering, and incitement.

Referring to the Gaza war as a new Holocaust, is Holocaust denial, which is antisemitic.

Zionism is a national liberation movement of an oppressed people. That’s the core.

You need a couple of people to follow, then it’s great! I met most of my Twitter folks on conferences and such. The majority has now moved to Mastodon. It’s mostly programming folks.

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