pratik
pratik
I was reading about why the U.S. vetoed the UN Security Council vote on the Gaza ceasefire. It apparently wanted to make the ceasefire conditional on Hamas releasing the hostages. Sounds fair to me. Do opponents not want Israeli hostages released? 🗳️ In the regular scheme of things, Hamas may have not expe... microblog.pratikmhatre.com
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davidmarsden

@Denny @pratik @samjc @davidmarsden @kimberley_rose Biden could start by upholding the “rules based international order” we hear about so often. He could stop funding Israel all together, or at least stop sending Israel more arms while they are committing plausible genocide. He could stop vetoing United Nations votes for a ceasefire. Just a couple of ideas off the top of my head.

In international law, the Palestinian people do have the legal right armed resistance against the Israeli occupation of their land. In international law, a state which occupies another does not have the legal right to self-defence. Of course, that doesn’t mean Israel had no right to protect its citizens on October 7th. But what it has done since has gone way beyond self-defence.

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