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1. jnmandal · 1790606698 · focus · HN ↗

   Pretty wild that the international community tolerates this. Realistically this should catalyze a UN intervention.

   1. tonyhart7 · 1790606786 · focus · HN ↗

      US Gov would veto that shit
   2. PorciiVorbesc · 1790606955 · focus · HN ↗

      UN is just a voluntary group activity discussion form, that's all, not some objective stand-up world police.

      Any UN-wide military intervention would require some consensus from at least some of the major powers on the security council, but Israel is being shielded by powers such as US and Germany so nothing will happen at UN level, especially when those two countries are known for applying sanctions on people and countries who are boycotting Israel and aiding Palestine.

      There are a few countries very vocal against what Israel is doing, but obviously none of them will go as far to send troops to that region by themselves, which is understandable for multiple reasons, especially given the already elevated economic and geopolitical challenges around the world right now.

   3. 1over137 · 1790607244 · focus · HN ↗

      The “international community” also tolerates the USA invading Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, and all their other adventures. And tolerates Russia invading Ukraine. etc etc etc with many other countries’ adventures. Why expect different here?
   4. spwa4 · 1790622976 · focus · HN ↗

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      1. newspaper1 · 1790632993 · focus · HN ↗

         > According to a speech at the UN human rights commission, Iran was not killing 50.000 young people, it was "defending against US and Israeli agression", of course all in contradiction to the UN's own findings. For example they found Iran literally designed weapons to fire into crowds for maximum damage, among other things a kind of frag-grenade-shotgun shell to do maximum damage to people. They fired it at hundreds of Iranian children, and in at least 2 instances at a mother-with-baby.

         None of this happened, please stop spreading misinformation.

   5. pseudohadamard · 1790690677 · focus · HN ↗

      Israel has a universal get-out-of-jail-free card for everything called "shout 'antisemitism'". Say anything even mildly critical of anything the Israeli government does and you get 'antisemitism' shouted at you. There are even antisemitic Israelis, meaning ones who have dared to criticize what their government is doing. It's so depressingly predictable, it's the automatic response every single time.

      1. the_origami_fox · 1790912534 · focus · HN ↗

         This is antizionist hate speech.

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