even though its own membership of the UN was made conditional upon Palestinian refugees being allowed to return to their homes and land.
Did anyone actually try to enforce that condition?
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even though its own membership of the UN was made conditional upon Palestinian refugees being allowed to return to their homes and land.
Did anyone actually try to enforce that condition?
"Resolution to enforce the condition is promptly vetoed by the US for the 16th time." Or something very similar would be your answer, probably.
16 seems a little low.
Does anyone expect the UN to have a spine?
"we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are"
"After three letters, you will receive an official condemnation! 3 of those and you can't come to our super cool private beach anymore!"
Until the UN doesn't start unifying the earth nations under one single flag by conquest, no, they are all spineless politicians.
"perpetuating conflict"
Wow, that's rich.
If all the Palestinians are dead there's no more conflict.
Actually it's all Palestinians' fault that this war drags on. Just accept your deaths and ee can end this! So selfish.
Honestly they should build those new beach homes and then just walk into the sea.
There will be conflict as long as people exist, actually.
This is going poorly for Israel. They don't seem to detect a tide of opinion rising against them, slowly but surely. Maybe they plan to smash-and-grab, get as much done as they can before they are truly forced to ease up.
They don’t care.
Actually, they may want to be the villains. Nothing gets the persecution complex up like everyone saying Israel is the bad guy.
Combine that with the inevitable increase in legitimate antisemitism- hate speech, attacks, etc- and it’s going to convince people.
especially at home. It may even bring more Jews to Israel, which… might boost their economy or something.
Israel is in the unique position where no matter how many atrocities they commit, they can cry anti-Semitism and the world will eat it up. People lose their jobs or prestigious positions when they speak out in support of Palestine.
Trenchant point here that doesn't get brought up often enough— the state of Israel faces a demographic crisis, as birthrates and aliyah decline. It may not be able to maintain a Jewish majority in several decades.
Rising antisemitism around the world is actually in its interest, to maybe compel more Jewish people to immigrate.
I heard the Orthodox people in Israel have a ton of kids, though.
22% of the Jews in Israel are reportedly orthodox. Keep in mind orthodoxy isn’t a specific sect or denomination the way, say, Ukrainian Orthodox is in Christianity.
Even if true (and I have no idea,) that’s not enough.
In any case, there is a certain agency in this brutality. They’re not just incompetent or blundering through it. Israel’s attacks on Gaza are considered and planned. So either they don’t care about foreign perception or the current perception is what they want.
They should care, it's shortsighted.
Apartheid state is going to Apartheid.
Fuck israel.
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