this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
718 points (98.1% liked)

World News

47449 readers
2475 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is there a charitable interpretation that could make this statement true?

Since Gaza is an open air prison under the control of Israel and not recognized as an independent state we can blockade it all we want.

Best I got.

Really hard to justify genocide.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Palestine is not a recognized country in most of the western world, which in itself is a travesty, but you can probably infer a lot of bs from that.

Like claiming a certain religious group has no human rights bc they're not recognized as humans.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Palestine is not a recognized country in most of the western world, which in itself is a travesty, but you can probably infer a lot of bs from that.

That's not even true.

As of March 2025, the State of Palestine is recognized as a sovereign state by 147 of the 193 member states of the United Nations, or just over 75% of all UN members. It has been a non-member observer state of the United Nations General Assembly since November 2012.

75% of the world recognizes Palestine as a sovereign state.

[–] lividweasel@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

To be fair, they specified “western world”. If you look at the map of countries that recognize Palestine, it’s pretty glaring that a good chunk of Europe, Canada/US, and Australia/NZ don’t officially recognize it.

[–] pticrix@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 days ago

That's almost a 1:1 map of the G8. Fun.

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 0 points 2 days ago

Why does it even matter if it's the west or other countries. Foes western countries have more legitimacy?