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by misterbishop 953 days ago
Hopefully people are coming to understand there is no such thing as "international law" and therefore no such thing as "war crimes". There is no enforcer of justice at the international level. There are only gangster states with gigantic militaries who impose their will on everyone else. Every bomb Israel drops on a Palestinian baby is bankrolled by the US. No international body has the capacity to stop the US or Israeli military from bulldozing Palestine. If there were, Dick Cheney and George W Bush would've been tried by the ICC.

Regular people need to organize oppositional political institutions: primarily parties and unions to fight for the interests of regular people against these 1% ghouls. What's needed is a revolutionary struggle against our respective national ruling classes, with an international collaboration that will eventually make obsolete national boundaries.
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throwawaysleep 953 days ago
Bulldozing Palestine is 25,000 dead a day like during WW2 bombings. Not a few hundred.
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megous 953 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Great_Fire_of_London

Deaths 160 Injured 250

"one of the most destructive air raids of the Blitz during World War II"

Quite comparable to Nazi air raids over Britain.

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throwawaysleep 953 days ago
UK actually cared about its people. They evacuated them (which the Government of Gaza will not). They sent their kids away (which the Government of Gaza will not). The UK invested in shelters and other infrastructure (which the Government of Gaza does not, except for their soldiers).

You need to compare it to the death tolls of the nations that also did not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Pforzheim_in_World_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Hamburg_in_World_Wa... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_194...

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megous 953 days ago
Comparison to UK building shelters during WW2 is not reasonable and mentions of "which the Government of Gaza will not" are disingenuous. They can not in any meaningful way build shelters that would protect 2.3 million people living there.

UK was ~500x the size, not including colonies, or whatnot and a great power not under decades long siege at that time.

On the other hand, Gaza is small, and Israel famously blocks imports of construction materials and technology to Gaza, and attacks international ships and kills crew that attempt to bring it there without approval.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_flotilla_raid

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/17/gaza-recycles-rubbl...

Civilian bomb shelters are also not very useful without a warning system and against an enemy, that can target them directly and is in the sky 24/7. Show me a typical Israeli bomb shelter that can survive a direct hit from one or two of those JDAM guided 1000/2000 pound bombs, without everyone inside being killed. Locations of all the shelters would be known to Israel, so they'd be easily targeted.

Anyway, yeah, apples and oranges of a situation, comparing this to anything in the past, including air raids on London.

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