As long as the most powerful nations in the world continue to flout international law and its institutions they will lack the legitimacy they so desperately need.
It is pretty hard to say what’s is true and what isn’t in an ongoing conflict. Both side tries to make the other look evil while trying to hide or minimize their own evil deeds.
Which is why we don’t believe anything any party says without evidence or a very large amount of witnesses. These false rape accusations have been the biggest lie so far where israel is blocking any independent investigation for to this very day.
Indeed, but without investigations it is too early to say that it was a lie or if was the truth. Instead of labeling hastily one side allegation as lie, it has to be investigated, and proved as such.
Don’t mistake it as defending one side or the other, both side are different faces of a similar evil, but polarizing the debate in such way will just make it harder for moderates and peace advocate to be heard.
Unfortunately rapes are hard to prove. DNA traces and bruises are quick to disappear, and as such samples have to be taken quickly.
That’s why most cases of rapes are mainly based on victims testimonials, a requires extensive investigation to be proved as plausible enough to warrant a trial.
In the current case both side refuse to let third party investigate such allegation, and this should raise suspicion for both sides. But both have plausible excuses for such refusal. Hamas don’t want strangers to know where hostages are held, and Israel may want to protect the alleged victims from the media pressure.
Israel claimed to have forensic and video evidence which they lied about.
In the current case both side refuse to let third party investigate such allegation
Your accusation is entirely wrong as Hamas did not object to a third party investigation of fake israeli rape claims. UN Investigations into forensic evidence of what happened on Oct7 were single-handedly blocked by israel and israel only.
I’m not sure why you are bringing up any hostages as they are not the ones making accusations and we know that not a single hostage that has been released has been raped.
It’s interesting how this magically becomes a “both sides thing”. This is an israel thing.
Israel and the US are a danger to a rule based international order and morally and legally corrupting the west.
They are destroying the institutions that were established with a lot of effort to not repeat the horrors of the second world war and in particular the horrors of the Holocaust.
Now that they are held to the standards that they demanded from other countries, they attack the institutions that are our best bet to protect the world from another world war and unprecedented age of genocide.
Israel and the US are rogue terrorist states. It is no surprise that they are in league with Russia in having declared to never ratify the ICC accords. It was a grave mistake of the other western countries to continue ally with them and throughout this period. If the EU, Canada, Australia and NZ are not taking a stance now and protect the UN and in particular the ICC and ICJ any resemblance of a rule based international order will fall apart and we will fast track to WW3
Both countries didn’t join the ICC. There are obvious reasons for that - They know about being guilty. Keep in mind that the US is going after Assange not because he published some arbitrary “secrets” - he published evidence of American war crimes that the US army wanted to hush up.
I think, arrest warrants for Netanyahu and quite a number of people in the IDF are simply appropriate. The ICC is no political cangaroo court, and it would not charge or convict someone without evidence. Especially not a prominent figure.
Don’t forget finance minister Bezalel Smotich. He gets less attention than Ben-Gvir, but he is arguably to Ben-Gvir’s right, as insane as that concept sounds.
Smotich has even acknowledged (in a joking manner) that he’s a fascist.
I love the idea of the app, but I think some greater coordination with the BDS movement would help. Instead of a simple “yes/no”, tell the user of the app which category the product/company is listed in by BDS and let them make up their own mind.
For example, currently products in the “pressure targets” are displayed exactly the same as “consumer boycott target”. As BDS says, boycotts are most effective when they’re more highly targetted. So there’s no problem with boycotting the pressure targets, but there is if someone uses the fact that they’re boycotting a pressure target as an excuse to feel good and not boycott a boycott target. Being clearer could only help.
Holy crap that app has been review bombed like crazy on the Play store. Down to 2.0, claiming it uses your phone to make calls, kills your battery, etc. One even claiming it’s “trying to push it’s own agenda on you without letting you choose how to use for your own benefits” like wtf? The bots and trolls just need enough text to seem legitimate, I suppose.
2.2 for me now. Clicking the ratings it warns me “ratings are based on recent reviews from your region by people using similar devices to you”. I didn’t check it before, just relayed other comments.
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