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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are they giving Isreal a deadline to complete their genocide?

By September, there won't be much of a Palestine left to recognize.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Frankly I'm surprised there's anything left now, late last year I was saying Gaza would be razed by Easter

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 18 points 1 week ago

Gaza pretty much has been razed; Gazans are only holding on by sheer force of will.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago

So if Israel stops genociding Palestinians, the UK won’t recognize them as a state.

If it continues the genocide, the UK will recognize them as a state.

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[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"UK warns Israel, if they don't stop what they're doing, the UK might do something in two months time"

The most bullshitty piece of bullshit I've ever heard.

translation:

hurry up and kill them all before we symbolically do something that has no consequences at all.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

SEPTEMBER?! What's wrong with now?

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 10 points 1 week ago

Isn't the UN vote in September

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 week ago

We’re gonna make this totally symbolic gesture that means nothing unless you stop being evil. Oh, wait. Evil people don’t give a flying fuck about empty gestures. Aw, shucks.

[–] artiman@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (6 children)

how does this fit the community?

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I dunno, I found it pretty goofy that the government is threatening to recognize a country as a punitive measure against another.

yhea, it makes no sense, "Recognising Palestine" is like recognising the existence of water.

not doing so is straight up denying reality.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Idk man/woman/compadre,.when I saw it I legitimately thought it was satire. It was both the weird condition and also a general sense of "no way".

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

It is kind of incredible that UK would even consider saying they might do something like this eventually.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Country A threatens that if Country B doesn't do what they want they'll recognize C as a country" kinda sounds Onion funny to me

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Oh, it definitely is.

It's a lot more bleak than most Onion headlines, but it fits.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 5 points 1 week ago

I guess there won’t be any Palestine left, so the whole recognition thing is moot as.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 week ago

plus the idea that the country might be gone in two months

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

It's the most luke warm response to starving children from the most luke warm leader of a major country

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

what kind of a logic is this?

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So if they nuke Gaza in August...

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

There'll be a good time to start on the next country.