cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25049986
Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Mariam Barghouti
Jan 21, 2025from Drop Site News
[you may get a request to sign up for free subscription]“Israel launched a major military operation on Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, raiding the city with troops, military vehicles, and bulldozers backed by airstrikes, drones, and Apache helicopters. At least nine Palestinians have been killed and more than 40 wounded in the ongoing operation, according to the Ramallah-based Palestinian health ministry, which Israel has dubbed “Operation Iron Wall.””
“Naive and outdated” that’s one way to describe sending $30B in arms to a genocide. Others would call it “complicity in genocide”. Like, experts in international law.
Been on lemmy.world for the last month or so you guys, I fucking hate it. Arguing with "we had to vote for Harris"ers until some vigilante mod decides my angry response to their support for genocide isn’t “civil” enough.
Experts in international law, the ICC, correctly blame Israel, not Biden.
https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-state-palestine-icc-pre-trial-chamber-i-rejects-state-israels-challenges
The reason I say “naive” is that Biden persists in this mentality that Israel is just some poor victim surrounded by hostile Arab states and Israel hasn’t been a legit victim since… what? The 1972 Olympics?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre
If you look at what Israel has been doing to Gaza since the 90s, it’s a slow motion version of the ghettoization of the Jews in Nazi Germany.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip
In 2007, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in a case involving Bosnia and Serbia, established that the obligation to refrain from providing weapons or other assistance begins the moment a state becomes aware of the existence of a serious risk that genocide may be committed. Now would you agree or disagree that by issuing the warrants or even before claiming actions “consistent with genocide”, the us was “aware of serious risk”? If it did then its punishable by Article 3, which deals with complicity, which itself then constitutes genocide.