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

Post by dotancohen » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 12:27 AM UTC

eirikbakke wrote: post #337

dotancohen wrote: post #263

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Go read this UNHCR report. All the evidence is just circular references to other bodies who reference each other. The most damning thing they could pin on Israel was that "Israel admits 83% of the casualties are civilians". That idea was because Israel could name 17% of the casualties in Hamas registers as members of the organization. But assuming that every other casualty is a civilian is quite a stretch. For one th…

Pages 51-54 contain a list of on-the-record quotes from the government itself. Those, at least, are not in contention.

Post by dotancohen » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 12:31 AM UTC

buyucu wrote: post #282

eej71 wrote: post #84

It's always useful to balance these claims against their critics. Towards that end I offer up unwatch. https://unwatch.org/

unwatch is funded by religious lunatics in Israel. Nobody takes it seriously.

Post by throwaway3060 » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 12:33 AM UTC

forgotoldacc wrote: post #398

aegypti wrote: post #294

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Those are US state legislators. We have 7,386 of them. Sometimes a few wander outside during their election races. You could easily fit that delegation into New Hampshire’s House of Representatives of 400 seats. Meanwhile it’s more than double California’s total state legislature size of 120 seats. It’s fun!

Still a strangely high number. Imagine 250 representatives all going to a country with a similar population. It'd be mighty strange if 250 representatives from across the US went to Kyrgyzstan. Frankly, I'd find it strange if 250 went next door to Mexico all in the same year and that's a directly neighboring country that's actually relevant to US interests and the US's single biggest trade partner. Israel gets some s…

Post by lokar » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 12:35 AM UTC

Aunche wrote: post #332

roenxi wrote: post #272

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If only the blue representatives would resolve this tension by pulling support for a now internationally-recognised genocide! :( I suppose that option is just too radical to put on the table.

The Biden administration brokered and pressured Israel into a ceasefire that asymmetrically disfavored them. Israel exchanged 30 Hamas militants per Israeli hostage. The ceasefire outlined a permanent resolution to the conflict, including Israel's full withdrawal from Gaza. They also pressured Israel to keep aid channels open during the war, which is exceptionally obvious now given significantly longer blockades and…

Post by belorn » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 12:41 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #71

ipaddr wrote: post #69

Wonder why this made the frontpage when other political articles die. Has the rules around political non technical articles changed? Can we get an Epstein thread for the frontpage sometime this week?

No, the rules haven't changed—they've been the same for many years. Let me try to dig up some past explanations. Edit: here's one from a few months ago, which covers the principles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43738815 . Re how we approach political topics (or political overlap) on HN in general: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... Re how we deal with Major Ongoing Topics, i.e. to…