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Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

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Re: Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

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Isn't that an Israeli "hasbara" site? The Israelis have admitted that they use the false cry of "antisemitism" to attack. "Calling it antisemitism - it’s a trick we always use." Shulamit Aloni, former Israeli Minister https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1896748975207952758

How is that a refutation? If I want to understand any position I would look for first sources. Say I want to understand why Russian invaded Ukraine, I would seek out Russian sources. When I try to understand the Palestinian position, I seek out Palestinian sources. The beautiful thing about intellectual honesty and openness is that you don't have to agree with any position. You can expose yourself to things that deep…

"To dismiss a source because it is Israeli ironically gives fuel to the antisemitism charge."

We agree it is an Israeli source.

All the unwatch site does is accuse Israel's critics of being antisemites. When you can't respond to the message, attack the messenger. Accuse them of being antisemitic and being funded by Hamas.

The Israelis have taken it to the point of farce!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/stop-antisem...

Re: Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

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I for one will be holding my representatives responsible who continue to vote for the US to enable a genocide. The videos coming out of Gaza have turned me and many others into single issue voters.

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Re: Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

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I for one will be holding my representatives responsible who continue to vote for the US to enable a genocide. The videos coming out of Gaza have turned me and many others into single issue voters.

Flipping the U.S. really is the key to ending this conflict. The U.S. reliably uses its security council veto to nix any meaningful UN response and the U.S. remains, by far, the biggest supplier of arms to the IDF. If the US were to stop veto'ing everything and cut off the IDF's supply of, at least, some types of weapons, the new ground assault would likely end quickly. Unfortunately, that isn't likely to happen. Net…

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Re: Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

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Israel seems like a very ineffective bully considering that the UN consistently condemns them the most vs. any other country in the world.

https://unwatch.org/un-condemns-israel-17-times-6-on-rest-of...

But for me, this says more about the nature of the UN than that of Israel.

Re: Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

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Given the Israeli military are defacto state sponsored terrorists (see e.g. their active support of settler violence on the West Bank if you want to avoid Gaza related complaints). That means every single company in Israel is employing terrorists.

Sure. The Israel military rapes, kills, slaughter, and rob Gaza and West bank. The IDF is exactly like Hamas sure. /s if you didn't understand. The Israelis live in the West Bank. The IDF is there to protect them. There is no violence whatsoever from the settlers. It's pure propaganda. There were a few rare times of some violence, but it's nothing compared to what the Palestinians do. Last week, two Palestinians cros…

I don't think I can even give you the benefit of the doubt of being clueless, you're just deliberately spreading false propaganda.

Re: Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

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In what way has Israel bullied members on the HR council?

They use America to sanction the participants: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/09/us-sanctions... Just one example of many.

Inb4 whining that it's just the American government being slavishly loyal to the Zionist cause and the Zionist government of Israel has nothing at all to do with this. I swear to god if I get any response like this I will literally go blind from my eyeballs doing full 360s in my skull.

Re: Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

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Why is this posted on a tech news site?

From the guidelines:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics... unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

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While you do have points that these UN bodies do seem to sleep more often than not, one should never, under any circumstance attempt to suggest that what's happening in Gaza aren't crimes against humanity. A friend of mine is in the Red Cross staff, they had more than 20 casualties since 2021 in Palestine. Their staff was literally shot at because they were doctors. It's sickening.

"never under any circumstances attempt to suggest" anything contrary to what you believe is an unreasonable and weak proposition to an argument.

You are welcome to believe what you want to believe but plenty of people throughout History believed something as strongly and self righteously as you do and turned out dead wrong. To think you are immune to that and suggest that no voice to the contrary should be allowed is ridiculous.

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