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submitted 11 months ago by RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/7945843

Israel has said the “time has come to teach the United Nations a lesson” by banning UN officials from visiting the country – in a row over remarks from secretary-general Antonio Guterres that the deadly 7 October attack by Hamas “did not happen in a vacuum” and had to be seen in the context of decades of occupation of the Palestinians.

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[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 106 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Banning UN officials from visiting the country? Isn't that usually the first thing the so called villains do in times of war?

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Straight from Putins playbook too lol

[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 84 points 11 months ago

Fascists are always the biggest cowards in any given situation. Because of this insecurity, they have to restrict speech, restrict movement, manufacture realities, bully their citizens, bully their partners, obfuscate, gaslight, and play the victim card over and over again to advance their awful goals. In every respect, Israel is a comically evil, insecure and dishonest entity. Actual democracies, like what the US keeps pretending Israel is, don’t need to hide their actions and berate the world community like this.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 80 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you don't let international observers into the country, or the war zone, there's nothing to observe, therefore anybody who says a war crime happens is obviously lying. Because they couldn't have possibly observed it

It's the perfect political strategy.

It worked so well before....

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/united-nations-and-apartheid-timeline-1946-1994

1955 The South African Government withdrew from membership in the UNESCO in protest against UNESCO's activities against racial discrimination.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Is the UN allowed to undo its resolutions?

Specifically, the one that created the modern state of Israel:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Nations-Resolution-181

[-] dasgoat@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Not without consent of the body with, undoubtedly, vetos for the US. Which the US will then use to shield Israel from anything and everything as it has many, many times before.

[-] Therealgoodjanet@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

“What occupation?”

  • Israel

“Please help us, we’re literally dying, we are losing everything we have and we have nowhere to turn, please we’re begging you…”

  • Palestinians

“IsRaEl HaS tHe RiGhT tO dEfEnD iTsElF”

  • Israel apologists

“Israel did what? We didn’t see anything.”

  • the UN
[-] Therealgoodjanet@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago

“If you have empathy for Palestinian people, you’re a terrorist”

  • Also Israel
[-] marcos@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

"They are not people"

  • Believe it or not, said on TV, distributed worldwide
[-] ricdeh@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

I don't care anymore what Israel apologists think, Israel is officially a genocidal Nazi regime that is at least as bad as Russia currently is. International aid for this Fourth Reich must stop immediately.

[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Israel needs to be put in its place. Free people don't need to take ANY shit from fucking fascist degenerate religious ethnostates.

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago

I’ve always wondered at what point the farce would end. What would they have to do to end their unwavering support from imperialist libs?

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Israel has said the “time has come to teach the United Nations a lesson” by banning UN officials from visiting the country – in a row over remarks from secretary-general Antonio Guterres that the deadly 7 October attack by Hamas “did not happen in a vacuum” and had to be seen in the context of decades of occupation of the Palestinians.

Mr Guterres also condemned "clear violations of international humanitarian law," calling Israel's constant bombardment of Hamas-controlled Gaza in response to the attack, and the level of destruction and civilian casualties, "alarming."

Escalating the row on Wednesday, he told Israeli Army Radio: “Due to his remarks we will refuse to issue visas to UN representatives.

However, the US secretary of state, Antony Bliken did meet with Mr Guterres after he had spoken and as other countries that spoke in the UN debate were critical of Israel’s operation against Hamas in Gaza.

In the UK, the immigration minister, Robert Jenrick, said that Mr Guterres was “wrong” and he should retract his comments about Hamas's assault if it implied any justification for the killing of Israelis.

A spokesperson for prime minister Rishi Sunak said that Britain would consider discussing a humanitarian pause in Gaza to facilitate aid coming into the territory, but does not want a wholesale ceasefire as that would only benefit Hamas.


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