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

Post by aegypti » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 1:41 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 runarberg » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 1:49 AM UTC

_DeadFred_ wrote: post #361

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I don’t believe questions like that are asked in good faith. Maybe you are the exception, but I have seen too many people begin with exactly this question, and then end up justifying the Gaza genocide. In case you are asking in good faith—and following the HN guidelines—I suggest you abandon this question and consider that maybe this is the wrong question to ask given the situation. If that is hard, then I ask you to…

Calling someone directly out/impugning their motives instead of responding is actually a violation of the HN guidelines. You can respond to topics, not posters. You are the one in violation. This isn't the first time I've seem this 'you aren't in good faith' response on this topic, and is partly why again, HN just isn't a place where a real discussion can be had on this subject.

Post by dotancohen » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 1:54 AM UTC

cuillevel3 wrote: post #406

dotancohen wrote: post #306

Title: Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza Reality: The report was written by a 3 person UNHRC commission, which itself is seated by Ethiopia, Congo, Sudan, and Qatar.

I had to look this up on Wikipedia and remembered this is the 19 year old UNHRC. They have never been objective in regards to the Middle East conflict.

Post by yieldcrv » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 2:02 AM UTC

l2silver wrote: post #438

I see a lot of comments here are about how other countries should react to this designation, rightfully so. I wonder also though, how Israel will react. Is this anything new for them?

Post by SilverElfin » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 2:07 AM UTC

protocolture wrote: post #369

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And that was always known to have been a counter-productive protest. There's nothing ironic about this. They were told. They didn't care. It was unambiguously clear that no matter how bad you felt Obama/Biden/Harris were on Israel, Trump was/would be worse. If every single human life is worth saving (and it is), it's indisputable that Trump is worse for Gaza than Harris would have been. It was the ultimate Trolley Pr…

The Dems being willing to lose elections rather than meet voter expectations, says more about them than it does any particular voting or non voting group.