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by sagarm 54 days ago
Nobody cares about the legalistic rambling about the ICJ. We know an atrocity when we see it.
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Yeah, who disagreed with that? "war crime" is not a random term you can throw at things you don't like. you can dislike an atrocity, but you have no right to do anything about it.

It's so hypocritical. Not a single post on HN I've seen even brought up the genocide in sudan or other african countries. I'd like to see where you commented on how everyone who supported and provided refuge to Hamas and its leaders were committing an atrocity.

making noise about 'war crime' or atrocity does nothing except inflame the very propaganda being used to commit those atrocities, and legitimize all other atrocities being committed, from Iran to sudan, to ukraine and elsewhere. You pick and choose which genocidal country deserves attention based on your bias.

Iran's nuclear program was justified because they were eventually attacked, and Israel's atrocities are retroactively justified by people who insist they have no right to exist.

guess what, if I was an israeli and you're saying I have no right to exist, and should be genoicded or ethnic-cleansed, I wouldn't care about any atrocities against you either.

You don't care about legalisms and ICJ, so what do you care about? emotions? certainly you don't seem to care about actually doing something. organizations like ICJ exist for the purpose of doing something, and in this case it is ineffective.

I think my rambling about ICJ is more productive than other ramblings about "atrocity" or "from the river to the sea".