Let us know what you go with!

I agree with you, I just mean it’s hard for us to enforce it when we are being blocked by powers like the US etc.

Thanks, fantastic article, nice to get the BBC perspective on this as I wonder sometimes about The Irawaddy’s possibly being a bit optimistic.

Thanks, have updated my link.

Link for kbin/mbin

This is the crux of it:

The ICC has 124 state parties, while the United Nations has 193 member states. This disparity makes clear the gap between what the ICC seeks to achieve – namely, universal accountability for international crimes – and what it can practically achieve when it lacks the support of implicated or nonaligned countries.

Yes those children and premature babies really bit off more than “they” could chew

/s

So, you’re basically asking why we have a judicial system.

If you look at world history pretty much every human society comes up with a code of what is okay and what isn’t, and once they get to a certain size they start standardizing punishments as well.

The reason for this is because it works a lot better than ad hoc justice which is too reliant on variables like who was there that day.

I just wake up and am myself, and I’m somehow paid for this. Given all the bullshit surrounding corporate roles, I’m left agape at how this still exists and my ability to just slide into something I’ve never done.

That just sounds like normal imposter syndrome to me. You’re questioning why you are allowed to do something that youre competent to do.

If you didn’t have imposter syndrome you wouldnt be questioning it.

This. There’s nothing in western news media about domestic issues in China. If @PumpkinDrama wants to know more they should look for books or articles about Chinese protests such as the anti PX protests and the anti nuclear plant protests.

If the US would withdraw protection the rest of the international community could probably make more meaningful interventions in the genocide.

No, it’s really not necessarily what it looks like at all, though you could be forgiven for thinking it. I think perhaps this is the difference between those who focus on this issue because they’re interested in Israel, versus those who focus on it mainly because they’re interested in human rights.

You could blindly drop a bomb quite literally anywhere

Blindly dropping bombs on densely populated areas is a war crime.

Yes, killing this many people this fast is a consequence of the choices the IDF is making. No, they are not inevitable choices.

For instance, in its entire war against Islamic State the US dropped just one 2,000lb bomb. Israel is dropping hundreds of them.

Roof knocking and leaflets are a fig leaf - a fiction with the aim of avoiding international condemnation, a bit like the peculiar interpretations of “occupying force” and international law we see from them.

I’ve seen footage of those leaflets raining down on innocent people in Gaza, the panic and despair. It’s not humanitarian at all. Ironically some of the people best equipped to get away in time are Hamas fighters, which is probably why the IDF uses “Where’s Daddy” to kill suspected Hamas leaders when they are at home.

continue with their plan

Israeli politicians and public figures have been pretty clear in their national discourse about what their plans are. I don’t think we need to speculate further than that.

This “warning them beforehand” fig leaf only works if you think of everyone as fit healthy and mobile.

Anyone with disabled people, chronically ill people, terminally ill people and elderly people in their own lives knows it’s not that simple.

Most of us don’t have people physically weakened by famine in our own lives but it doesn’t take Einstein to know this is a problem too. And from NGOs we know there’s a lot of parentless children and a disproportionate number of child amputees in the mix as well.

If your response to this many civillians being killed is “it’s their fault for not getting away” you need to examine your logic, I think.

We all agree London is cosmopolitan.

I think they were objecting to the phrase “few and far between”.

You really can’t use it to describe a situation of almost 2 in 5.

If 2 in every 5 cars you see are red you can’t say red cars are few and far between.

I find this comment disturbing in so many ways. I think an example that really sums up what’s wrong with it is

Israel unsurprisingly puts the safety of their soldiers above the concerns of local farmers.

“Concerns of local farmers” isn’t the main issue with crop destruction. Famine and starvation are.

And the binary between being blown up by ieds and destroying fields is a false dichotomy. A better way of phrasing it would be:

Israel puts expediency above the lives of local civilians.

The UN doesn’t declare famine until 30% of a population’s children are displaying physical signs such as muscle wasting. This is really serious. We saw it two years ago with the deliberate famine in Ethiopia and now we’re seeing it in Gaza.

Every single nation on Earth would have reacted to this with a full-on war

I find it a bit bizarre that people keep using this talking point when there’s ample evidence that other countries do not react to terrorism by slaughtering thousands of innocent civilians.

Many countries have shown themselves able to respect international law. Britain for example managed not to massacre the children of Ireland en masse when it was dealing with the IRA.

“Think of the children” as a phrase is meant to satirize the fallacious appeals of “moral panic” arguments in support of conservative social values.

Your idea that it also covers arguments for literally not killing children is odd. There’s nothing necessarily fallacious about singling out children as a subset that it’s especially important to avoid killing.

In this case half the civilians are children and they are being killed, so it’s a reasonable thing to want to stop.

The implication of your use of the phrase here is that no one should consider children’s wellbeing even when real harm is being done to them. I find that idea dystopian and inhumane.

Well it’s like the old joke says,

Q: how do you know someone’s a vegan?

A: OH, THEY’LL TELL YOU.

Seriously tho I don’t have a problem with them unless they start saying there’s no difference betwern killing an animal and torturing it.

Worth noting that for the UN to declare famine:

• at least 20% of the adults have to be experiencing severe hunger and

• at least 30% of the children have muscle wasting and/or stunted growth.

I think that’s a great tip. You’re right.