Re:Israel's campaign in Gaza 'plausibly' amounts to genocide...
by throwaway55479 on Friday February 02, 2024 @07:49AM
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Also today : More than 800 serving officials in the US and Europe have signed a statement warning that their own governments' policies on the Israel-Gaza war could amount to "grave violations of international law [1]
Re:Israel's campaign in Gaza 'plausibly' amounts to genocide...
by Qem on Friday February 02, 2024 @06:32AM
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Not only it should be, it is already illegal, for a long time, as foreign aid to Israel violates two amendments of the 1961 Foreign Aid Act, which ban aid to clandestine nuclear powers. It's broadly know Israel has nuclear weapons, and politicians there keep threatening Gaza with a nuclear holocaust [1], but the US government keeps unlawfully bankrolling them.
Re:Israel's campaign in Gaza 'plausibly' amounts to genocide...
by loceng on Friday February 02, 2024 @06:12AM
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I think it is - where only one or two US politicians have said anything "against" Israel at all - being Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders, the latter which simply said, paraphrase, "maybe we should make sure we're following US law".
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68177357
[1] https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240124-israel-minister-r...