• Tommasi [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Zero respect for people who “sympathize” with Palestinians, but who instantly condemns fighting back against their occupation.

    Are Palestinians meant to just sit there and die slowly while we feel sorry for them?

    • quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      MLK Birmingham Jail letter

      I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

      • SteamedHamberder [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Exactly. Given the limited materiel that Hamas has, if their primary objective was to “kill Jews” firing a large number of small, poorly aimed rockets vaguely Northeastward is an incredibly inefficient way of doing it.

  • eXAt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Stealing a post from the trueanon subreddit: “Gaza is both morally and conceptually the same as the Warsaw Ghetto”

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      General Assembly resolutions are helpful signposts of international law but not a binding source of international law. For something to be a point of customary international law, it needs to have jus cogens and state practice. In simple terms, countries need to believe that it is law and act accordingly.

      GA resolutions are useful as statements of jus cogens (belief that law exists) but not necessarily determinative.

      None of this is relevant to your question though, since the US does not abide by international law.

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    If we’re talking about international law it’s worth noting that an illegal war still results in a legal occupation which is actually a good thing otherwise international law about how countries can treat civilians wouldn’t apply to the occupation

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    Armed resistance is one thing, massacring civilians is another.