Post AiLMAaSXKodnDoipDk by Quarky@expressional.social
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(DIR) Post #AiK7bO4nmyISAJyvXE by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-05-27T17:33:59Z
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How does genocide happen in 2024?It doesn’t, of course. As Graeme Wood from The Atlantic explains, there are only tens of thousands of legally killed children, that’s all.(Thanks, Graeme, we were all apparently very confused.)See, y’all were getting worked up for nothing.https://archive.is/sT6ne#selection-1057.275-1057.295#israel #palestine #gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #legallyKilledChild #TheAtlantic
(DIR) Post #AiK7xzw5i0N9xIglbU by voxpopsicle@mastodon.social
2024-05-27T17:37:50Z
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@aral when you find yourself writing "legally killed children" is when you need to stop and check yourself and wtf you are doing
(DIR) Post #AiK8agkgy3hLkeo2Ou by petealexharris@mastodon.scot
2024-05-27T17:45:12Z
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@aral Graeme Wood should be hounded from every corner of human society until he has to scrape for rotting food in a landfill to the end of his days.Which would be perfectly legal.
(DIR) Post #AiKAG1kXu5VahZ0tBg by Lastresponder@mstdn.social
2024-05-27T18:03:53Z
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@aral At what point will these people look in the mirror and ask "Are we the baddies"?
(DIR) Post #AiKBDqHjerHmWH3kie by bujold@dice.camp
2024-05-27T18:14:31Z
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@aral Also I'm pretty sure the Geneva Conventions' stance on killing unarmed children is "what? No, absolutely not", not "don't, unless someone else forfeits the child's rights by existing near them"
(DIR) Post #AiKDLlt65hzT6eRZz6 by Lastresponder@mstdn.social
2024-05-27T18:38:25Z
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@aral It all comes back to this
(DIR) Post #AiKEIKSNip657Gs0x6 by PariaSansPortefeuille@jasette.facil.services
2024-05-27T18:48:56Z
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@aral It's disgusting enough for a Yale politics lecturer to be advancing that "argument." It's next-level disgusting when it's advanced by a former president of Israel's Supreme Court. He made this "argument" while publicly stating his unqualified support for his country's military operation in Gaza and endorsing his state's war crimes. He *then* decided 2 1/2 months later not to recuse himself from an ICJ panel charged with adjudicating on the very same military operation. #EthicsMuch?
(DIR) Post #AiKFO8qVu4LMnWUeEC by jeffmarkel@mastochist.social
2024-05-27T19:01:22Z
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@aral You do know of course (or do you?) that this war (independent of however despicably Israel's government, under Netanyahu's leadership, is conducting it) was initiated AGAINST Israel by the government of Gaza/ Palestine, beginning on October 7th and continuing since. The government of this nation of Palestine/Gaza - Hamas - in both its foundational documents and in every pronouncement of its aims since then, seeks not just to wipe out the nation of Israel but also to rid the world of all Jews. Hamas exists, by its own declarations, as an organization dedicated to genocide.Please do NOT take my word for it - seek out and read through Hamas' publications.One might also ask why the Muslim world has turned its collective backs on Palestine for the last 75 years and why Egypt's border with Gaza is now and has always been closed up tighter than Gaza's Israeli border has ever been.
(DIR) Post #AiKFxedtg0dpY3WfHE by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-05-27T19:07:08Z
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@Lastresponder Yep.
(DIR) Post #AiKG5YwGlaUGAvtFwW by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-05-27T19:09:14Z
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@jeffmarkel Hey Jeff, Jeff… what’s been happening for 75 years, Jeff? Heard of the Nakba, Jeff? Go take your genocide apologism elsewhere, Jeff.
(DIR) Post #AiKGnN2uLTb421suMi by tang0008@mastodon.social
2024-05-27T19:17:05Z
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new worst phrase just dropped
(DIR) Post #AiKHcYWjQ1nIPNF1sG by JohannaMakesGames@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-05-27T19:26:21Z
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@aral how tf can someone type, reread and post that
(DIR) Post #AiKHuyhArchgmSuUhU by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-05-27T19:28:56Z
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@JohannaMakesGames Type, reread, submit it to their editor, have their editor approve it and then post it, you mean.(I’d answer but I’m not capable of understanding such a thing. Which I think is a feature, not a bug.)
(DIR) Post #AiKJmeuyiBDr2AWmwK by foufoutos@kafeneio.social
2024-05-27T19:50:37Z
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@aral
(DIR) Post #AiKPZDfNJx0qTVCjYW by cykonot@mas.to
2024-05-27T20:55:19Z
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@aral i will note, as many have before, that the holocaust was legal.
(DIR) Post #AiKUNnYiXxC45cSoHw by ashwinvis@mastodon.acc.sunet.se
2024-05-27T21:49:19Z
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@aral I have heard this too...This analysis from February shows how this is a lame excuse.»"Now, what we claim is that there is a third kind of human shield," Gordon told CBC News. "That is the human shield that does not volunteer and is not coerced, but just by being where they are, they become human shields. Or more precisely, I would say they're framed as human shields.1/n
(DIR) Post #AiKVQkA9jJJsNawYam by justafrog@mstdn.social
2024-05-27T22:01:07Z
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@aral Explaining why it's okay that so many children were killed is only possible if you're very, very evil.
(DIR) Post #AiL3owcgS4gmPozySm by thestrangelet@fosstodon.org
2024-05-28T04:26:29Z
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@aral WTF, we have lost our minds.
(DIR) Post #AiL7ndBDedk1domVdI by irfan@social.lol
2024-05-28T05:11:04Z
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@aral @Lastresponder Can’t say the west cares about either. #Uvalde #Rafah
(DIR) Post #AiLMAaSXKodnDoipDk by Quarky@expressional.social
2024-05-28T07:51:48Z
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@aral what is his opinion on ethnic cleansing ? Perhaps he is blind to that as well.
(DIR) Post #AiLMleQXXsTWF5Sg9Q by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-05-28T07:57:43Z
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@Quarky Depends, are we talking about legal ethnic cleansing?
(DIR) Post #AiLOQEkzzTqCSHwp1s by TofuTheSquirrel@piaille.fr
2024-05-28T08:17:02Z
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@aral "Unsympathetic obersvers" Come on ! Any observer becomes unsympathetic once they observed tens of thousands of innocents being killed.
(DIR) Post #AiLSGTGvZLSMOSTsO0 by dzajew@fosstodon.org
2024-05-28T08:59:23Z
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@aral I didn't know you could legally kill children </sarcasm>
(DIR) Post #AiLSY49tg95NiaaAOe by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-05-28T09:03:33Z
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@dzajew Sure you can, you just need the right arms dealer. I can hook you up with Bibi’s guy, Biden, if you like. Comes with full immunity against ICC and ICJ.
(DIR) Post #AiLStRj9FLZitcGWnY by dzajew@fosstodon.org
2024-05-28T09:07:24Z
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@aral Yeah. When I was at school, learning about WWII, or when I heard stories about that times from relatives, I thought/hoped, that it wouldn't happen again, yet here we are.
(DIR) Post #AiLXu33swBKqSR4VA8 by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-28T10:03:31.370288Z
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@Quarky @aral ethnic self-determination avoids many problems
(DIR) Post #AiLYJvTBmoe2RPFMIK by ashwinvis@mastodon.acc.sunet.se
2024-05-27T21:49:59Z
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@aral "In the Gaza Strip, for example, if the Hamas tunnels are a legitimate military target, and the tunnels span 700 kilometres, then they are under the whole Gaza Strip. So anyone above them becomes a human shield. And so you are casting or framing the whole civilian population almost as human shields.2/n
(DIR) Post #AiLYJwevMfcs85kFE0 by ashwinvis@mastodon.acc.sunet.se
2024-05-27T21:50:58Z
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@aral "Now why is that important? Because according to international law, once someone is a 'human shield,' the law doesn't require you to protect them as much as you would protect a civilian … And when you kill them, the party to blame is not you that killed them, but the party that used them."That's the logic."«https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/israel-hamas-gaza-human-shields-1.71037563/n
(DIR) Post #AiLYJxexe1FXEUlmvA by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-28T10:07:57.686168Z
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@ashwinvis @aral If we allow human shields to be protected like civilians, this gives guerrillas incentive to stage from civilian areas.
(DIR) Post #AiLYJyxQopcPG4Q3Lk by ashwinvis@mastodon.acc.sunet.se
2024-05-27T21:56:27Z
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@aral of course, anybody can see how this is just an insiduous word play to commit atrocities and cover up.Sad to see that international court rulings are not swiftly enforced.4/4
(DIR) Post #AiLd9U1jSlQwCgFBZo by KarenawokeKaren@mastodon.world
2024-05-28T11:02:13Z
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@aral Shocking statement to make when international courts ICJ n ICC have made it clear there is nothing legal about Israel's assault on Gaza, let alone towards the trapped children. https://www.unicef.org/children-under-attack/six-grave-violations-against-children
(DIR) Post #AiLescgUDoaq2UOWEy by Millhouse@glasgow.social
2024-05-28T11:21:39Z
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@aral Ah, is 'Graeme Wood' real or a pseudonym for the israeli embassy dot dot dot
(DIR) Post #AiLfHymXCVUBoTJXuq by beckett@triangletoot.party
2024-05-28T11:26:15Z
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@aral @alice The Atlantic’s editor is a Zionist.
(DIR) Post #AiLfnm441DdpdbfsNk by TheDailyBurble@mastodon.social
2024-05-28T11:31:51Z
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@aral Yes, well any old excuse really. It's funny how the worlds mighty armies target women and children and old people and patients in hospital.You could be forgiven for thinking they were the usual bunch of fearties afraid of actual combat.
(DIR) Post #AiLq1GTxElSnHZr8c4 by aapis@mastodon.world
2024-05-28T13:24:52Z
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@aral does mr. Wood believe the holocaust was legal, and therefore good and just, because it occurred during an ugly war?
(DIR) Post #AiMKCOClrSpX2q2V3Q by RoyBrander@urbanists.social
2024-05-28T19:04:39Z
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@aral https://archive.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/history/0623strategy.htmI am mercifully numb to these stories since this one, 33 years ago.170,000 dead Iraqi kids under the age of 5. Killed by epidemics of cholera and typhus.When the water treatment plants all stopped after America bombed the civilian power plants.Knowing that this would have no military effect because military bases have their own power.The Pentagon admitted it was specifically to create postwar "leverage" over the civilians.https://archive.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/history/0623strategy.htm
(DIR) Post #AiMOoeiJKXbt4BIIFs by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-05-28T19:56:21Z
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@siderea @petealexharris @alice I did read the whole article and clearly we are not interpreting it the same way. I don’t see how he’s mocking Israel – he even goes into detail about when it would be legal to kill children – but yes, he does ask for journalists to be allowed in.
(DIR) Post #Aod9yPxE39Rbo9Ve9Q by dropbear@aus.social
2024-12-02T09:12:48Z
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@aral jfc 🤯
(DIR) Post #AodUVND1H9k9vutAWm by voxofgod@jorts.horse
2024-12-02T13:02:53Z
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@aral genocide apologia can certainly be seen as incitement to genocide as is ongoing still...So this bellend is guilty of that war crime