Yeah, like I don’t like what Hamas did or what they believe in aside from decolonization, but holy fuck Israel. Collective punishment is a war crime
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Yeah except they cant cross the border because Israel won’t let them.
Bibi has been itching for an excuse for these war crimes. And now he’s going to go hog wild.
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Ah it’s the bystanders that are at fault, not the perpetrator.
neither side can do good or will do good until a mixture of being forced to by others and being forced to by internal pressure, and the same is true of every country, including the USA, UK, Australia, etc…
“we’ve” all committed war crimes and genocides. “we” are no different.
That’s what peace accords are: a bunch of people who did terrible things agreeing on a moratorium and changing things going forward.
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the governments in those muslim countries are non-muslim dictators supported by the west. still shocked?
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The UN was created by superpowers who didn’t want it having the power to encroach on their sovereignty. It’s neutered by design.
"UN peacekeeping missions operate in the most dangerous and difficult environments in the world, dealing with conflicts – or their aftermath – which others cannot or will not address. We can achieve what others can’t, but success is never guaranteed.
We have, built up an impressive record of peacekeeping achievements over more than 70 years of our existence, including winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Since 1948, the UN has helped end conflicts and foster reconciliation by conducting successful peacekeeping operations in dozens of countries, including Cambodia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mozambique, Namibia and Tajikistan.
UN peacekeeping has also made a real difference in other places with recently completed or on-going operations such as Sierra Leone, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Timor-Leste, Liberia, Haiti and Kosovo. By providing basic security guarantees and responding to crises, these UN operations have supported political transitions and helped buttress fragile new state institutions. They have helped countries to close the chapter of conflict and open a path to normal development, even if major peacebuilding challenges remain.
In other instances, however, UN peacekeeping – and the response by the international community as a whole – have been challenged and found wanting, for instance in Somalia, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. These setbacks provided important lessons for the international community when deciding how and when to deploy and support UN peacekeeping as a tool to restore and maintain international peace and security"
This is only touching on the peacekeeping aspect of the UN. They do lot of other work such as humanitarian aid, human rights, international law, sustainable development, and focus on climate change.
The UN isn’t perfect however it’s hard to ignore that it does have a net positive on the world. We can always work to make it better but I think saying that it’s useless isn’t true.
You can look up more of what the UN does on their website or feel free to find other sources on what they’ve done since they came to be.
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What a healthy way to have a conversation, I’m sure your a lovely person to be friends with
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I hope the UN does something about this, like call for restraint, or caution against escalation. Maybe they could call for a vote to condemn violence against civilians. That ought to do the trick.
oh my… that will surely make a difference to the 2.3 million people held captive by the Israeli state
Don’t pretend like Hamas are the good guys.
This is a case where given the circumstances they absolutely are the good guys. They’re the only ones resisting the ethnic cleansing and war crimes. It just looks horrifying because the media considers the lives the colonized to be less than worthless so when they shoot back it’s seen as a massive act of aggression when really they’re just doing a fraction of what’s been done to them for the last decade.
They resist ethnic cleansing by raping and torturing hundreds of people, even children?
Because it’s totally OK when the other guys do it, get a hold of yourself.
Hamas have only been in power since 2008. Don’t act like it’s all their fault.
Why can’t people just look this stuff up. Hamas is not Palestine. They are a militant group created by the UAE and possibly Russia to further their own goals in the region and world. The people of Palestine, actual Palestinians, are victims of both Hamas and Israel and the world needs to stop blaming them for this.
Well, Hamas was voted strongest party in 2006 or 2008 (can’t remember exactly) with ~45% votes.
When more than half of the population of the Gaza strip are children and the elderly, any voting is just not legitimate. It’s like saying China runs fair elections.
That approval rating has only gone up as the violence against them has ramped up. I think it’s in the 60s now.
Most likely yeah. But I couldn’t find any newer approval ratings.
