As someone from the "third world", you're absolutely spot on.
And thank you for putting into words what so many think, i don't think i could have done it as well as you did.
Israel believes that they can act with total impunity without consequences.
And they will be right in that assessment, as long as the US and all the other 'first world' nations keeps on sending them resources, blocking international laws from holding Israel to account, deflect attention away from the unfolding genocide Israel is commiting, attack institutions like UNRWA and countries like South Africa that are trying to help the Palestinians.
So as you can see, everytime Israel escalates it's genocide against the Palestinians you won't hear a peep from these countries. You might a hear a token "Israel should defend itself within the law" while Israel is busy trampling on the latest international laws with their latest atrocities.
Sure. We all know that when Israel says militants they mean unarmed children, women and men
Because the very creation of Israel was a settler colonialist state ethnically cleansing the local population.
I would say their neighbours had plenty to be pissed off about.
As horrible as South African apartheid was, what is happening to the Palestinans is degrees worse.
Ordinary South Africans still remember the deep damage Apartheid perpetrators inflicted on us, it's poisonous remnants are still affecting us as a country to this day as we try to heal as a people.
Now imagine South Africans seeing what Israel is perpetrating against the Palestinians, now and in the past. It's a punch to the gut, a searing pain, to see what was done to us and our parents being done to Palestinians. We're seeing a gross refined version of Apartheid that was inflicted on us being inflicted on the Palestinians. And largely the so called west/ global north is cheering for the Israeli Apartheid regime commiting genocide. It makes me sick to my core.
For these reasons there is immense pressure on our government by civil society to denounce Israel and support Palestine. It does help that the ANC has always been pro Palestinian in the first place. Also it's elections this year so the ANC definitely wants some good pr too.
I would say that these points factor in way more than any link to Russia or China
One can only hope. But with the way Germany is heading it makes you worry.
I think israel bombed jabalya refugee camp four times already. And that's just one refugee camp
There's a theory that the US would have vetoed the resolution no matter what, in order to give israel some time to prepare to completion of their ground assault into Gaza.
In other words, the israeli's aren't ready to start their ground assault and the US provided cover for them until they're ready. A humanitarian ceasefire/ pause, had the resolution been passed, would have interfered with the next step in their genocidal war against the palestinians.
Yes they are. The charges in most cases? Stone throwing. I'll add a few links for you to get started.
https://www.dci-palestine.org/children_in_israeli_detention
https://www.btselem.org/statistics/minors_in_custody
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/10/palestinian-children-abused-in-israeli-detention-ngo
What is Hamas going to do with a catholic priest? They want to exchange Israeli hostages for all the Palestinian men, women and children that Israel is holding hostage in Israeli prisons.
Possibly. But Palestinians have also said that pipelines are damaged or destroyed by Israel's bombing in all areas if Gaza.
So if water is going through then it's sitting in huge tanks and not able to go through the pipelines to whichever houses/ buildings which are not yet rubble because of destroyed/ damaged pipes and no electricity to pump the water through any undamaged pipes.
So they probaby need to collect the water via water trucks. But there's no petrol either.
They could make the dangerous walk to the water tanks, but Israel has been bombing south Gaza as well, where everyone from northern Gaza was told to go.
That's why it's doubly shameful of Germany to have this stance, and also a great pity. Germany calling out Israel for it's genocide would be as strong a rebuke as South Africa calling out Israel for Apartheid.