Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

[Teufel]

And Americans wonder why many people around the world hate them...

lol, no we don't.

As for the ICC, considering some 40 miles from it Jews were being openly chased and beaten in the streets in a manner not seen in Europe since the Nazi era, please spare me your smug self-righteous fiction that "the world" is in any position to judge the United States of America.

Especially when there was an actual genocide being carried out against Muslims in Xinjiang, the ICC didn't do anything.

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Published Dec. 15, 2020

The International Criminal Court has decided not to pursue an investigation into China’s mass detention of Muslims, a setback for activists eager to hold Beijing accountable for persecution of ethnic and religious minorities.

Prosecutors in The Hague said on Monday that they would not, for the moment, investigate allegations that China had committed genocide and crimes against humanity regarding the Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group, because the alleged crimes took place in China, which is not a party to the court.

And vast swathes of the Muslim world either didn't care or licked China's boots during it.

But the main reasons why Muslims suffer in silence is that the Muslim-majority countries that raged against Rushdie, Jyllands-Posten and Charlie Hebdo have decided to stay silent. They use the idea of Muslim solidarity only when it suits them.

In July 2019, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria and other Muslim-majority states that pose as defenders of the faith helped to block a western motion at the United Nations calling for China to allow “independent international observers” into the Xinjiang region. Iran issues occasional criticisms but wants Chinese support in its struggle against the Trump administration and so keeps its complaints coded. Their hypocrisy is almost funny, if you take your humour black. Iran, Egypt, Syria and dozens of other countries that could not tolerate a magical realist novel can live with the mass sterilisation of Muslim women. They will give concentration camps a conniving wink of approval, but draw the line at cartoons in a Danish newspaper.

Or when Assad and his Iranian and Hezbollah allies were committing actual genocide against Muslims and the ICC didn't do anything.

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But Syria, like the United States, is not party to the ICC, meaning Assad would have to be referred to the ICC by the U.N. Security Council. Russia has publicly stated its opposition to punishing Assad for any alleged war crimes, meaning it would almost certainly veto such an action — as it already did in January.

South Africa brought genocide charges in another court and is calling on everyone abide by the ICC and arrest Netanyahu, but when they had an actual genocider in their midst they let him go.

South Africa, which has brought a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice accusing it of genocide, welcomed the decision, and urged "all state parties to act in accordance with their obligations in the Rome Statute".

South Africa failed to honour an ICC arrest warrant against the Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir when he visited the country in June 2015.

I could do this all day in an early Festivus rant. That's not to say Israel gets a pass for any and all conduct in the fighting, but it is to say the ICC and the rest of the world can kiss my red, white, and blue ass. They have no moral authority; they willfully gave it up time and time again. And when one of their primary charges is Israel weaponized starvation despite sending several hundred thousand tons of food into Gaza their case needs some work.

 

[Ultra Magnus13]

lol, no we don't.

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As for the ICC, considering some 40 miles from it Jews were being openly chased and beaten in the streets in a manner not seen in Europe since the Nazi era, please spare me your smug self-righteous fiction that "the world" is in any position to judge the United States of America.

Especially when there was an actual genocide being carried out against Muslims in Xinjiang, the ICC didn't do anything.

Link




And vast swathes of the Muslim world either didn't care or licked China's boots during it.



Or when Assad and his Iranian and Hezbollah allies were committing actual genocide against Muslims and the ICC didn't do anything.

Link



South Africa brought genocide charges in another court and is calling on everyone abide by the ICC and arrest Netanyahu, but when they had an actual genocider in their midst they let him go.



I could do this all day in an early Festivus rant. That's not to say Israel gets a pass for any and all conduct in the fighting, but it is to say the ICC and the rest of the world can kiss my red, white, and blue ass. They have no moral authority; they willfully gave it up time and time again. And when one of their primary charges is Israel weaponized starvation despite sending several hundred thousand tons of food into Gaza their case needs some work.

Yeah the ICC is beyond a joke. If they end up on the right side of something it's almost certainly on accident.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Better to be accidentally right than maliciously wrong?