I am in the belief that in a democracy an individual can be totally consistent and to argue for a rule based international order, then those rules are universal for everyone. Too many times there's a difference if it's "the others" doing something or "our side" same thing. Hence for example South Africa is quite right to say that the West is hypocritical when condemning Russian actions in Ukraine, but not condemning the actions of Israel in the occupied territories. This is the obvious case where in Europe it's basically Ireland (with it's history of British occupation) that is most vocal in the support of the Palestinians.When Israel has an HRW report it's not relevant because the other side are animals because there are HRW reports saying so. — Benkei
The problem is simply picking up facts that suit you and leaving out other points that don't fit your agenda.Or, we can't trust what Hamas says so their charter is irrelevant. Here is a Hamas leader saying they want to destroy Israel and we must trust what he says. — Benkei
Hamas are a bunch of animals and the people who voted them into power aren't much better. — RogueAI
During Tuesday’s hearing, none of the school leaders explicitly said that calling for the genocide of Jews would necessarily violate their code of conduct. Instead, they explained it would depend on the circumstances and conduct." — RogueAI
I would not look to Scott Ritter for information about anything. He's not even a Tucker Carlson-tier propagandist but a full on state mouth piece — Count Timothy von Icarus
During Tuesday’s hearing, none of the school leaders explicitly said that calling for the genocide of Jews would necessarily violate their code of conduct. Instead, they explained it would depend on the circumstances and conduct."
— RogueAI
We have to see their code of conduct, and it has to be changed. Maybe. — FreeEmotion
do we really know whose payroll he is on?
Yep. This is the thing. One has to make a living.Since his convictions as a child sex offender essentially preclude his working in the defense industry he seems to have decided peddling Russian talking points, no matter how ridiculous, was a solid career move. — Count Timothy von Icarus
Fears about policing Iraq were well warranted. — Count Timothy von Icarus
"Scott Ritter is an unreliable source who often makes things up," doesn't entail "the opposite of what he says is true in all cases." It means he's an unreliable source who has a terrible track record. — Count Timothy von Icarus
27:52 warheads so now Israel is facing a double existential threat which tells me they really need to focus on um a 27:59 negotiated settlement because it's the only option they have genocide isn't the option because here's the reality of it.. — Scott Ritter
Israel was eventually planning to announce an international zone in Gaza, and then proceed to bring an impotent Palestinian government, like the one in the West Bank, to power. But as the regime has not been able to reach any of its initial objectives, it is now trying to make a complete social collapse unfold in Gaza. That way, Hamas and the people of the territory would have to spend a significant time to recover and hence have less energy to fight occupation forces. It would take Palestinians several months or perhaps years to recover from such dire circumstances. A social, economic, and humanitarian collapse in Gaza would now be in Israel’s best interest, as the regime failed to make the scenario it envisaged during the 1990s come true. — Tehran Times
Ritter was the subject of two law enforcement sting operations in 2001 — Wikipedia
See here(Jerusalem Post) Instead of funneling money to rebuild Gaza or to the failed UNRWA, the international community can assist in the costs of resettlement, helping the people of Gaza build new lives in their new host countries.
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli government ministry has drafted a wartime proposal to transfer the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million people to Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, drawing condemnation from the Palestinians and worsening tensions with Cairo.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office played down the report compiled by the Intelligence Ministry as a hypothetical exercise — a “concept paper.” But its conclusions deepened long-standing Egyptian fears that Israel wants to make Gaza into Egypt’s problem, and revived for Palestinians memories of their greatest trauma — the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of people who fled or were forced from their homes during the fighting surrounding Israel’s creation in 1948.
Israel isn’t going away. Muslim governments have recognized Israel and, before October 7, more were coming. Moreover, the two-state solution is definitively dead: Israel will never recognize a “Palestine” that could become another Hamas-stan. Besides, Gaza is not a viable economic entity, and neither would a “state” consisting of Gaza and an archipelago of Palestinian dots on the West Bank be viable. Israel has made clear it rejects any “right of return” for Palestinians, and has announced it will no longer even grant work visas to Gazans seeking employment.
Western peace processors trying to create a Palestinian state under the “Gaza-Jericho first” model made a cruel mistake, the victims of which were its intended beneficiaries. The real future for Gazans is to live somewhere integrated into functioning economies. That is the only way to realize the promise of a decent life and stability for a people who have been weaponized for far too long. The sooner the Biden administration realizes it, the better.
Refugee status is not hereditary.
See Resettlement from Gaza must be an optionIran, Hamas’s principal benefactor, should certainly be willing to accept large numbers of people in whom it has long shown such an interest. Most other Gazans should be resettled in the regional countries that previously weaponized them.
AMMAN, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Jordan's foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, on Sunday said that Israel was implementing a policy of pushing Palestinians out of Gaza through a war that he said meets the "legal definition of genocide", allegations that Israel rejected as "outrageous".
Safadi, whose country borders the West Bank and absorbed the bulk of Palestinians after the creation of Israel in 1948, also said that Israel had created hatred that would haunt the region and define generations to come.
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