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ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire

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locallost ◴[26 Jan 24 21:36 UTC] No.39148816[source]▶
My views on the situation aside, the clearest I saw anyone communicate the issues from a global angle was the former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin

Translated here: https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1718201487132885246

Viewed from the angle of the West, I think the message it needs to avoid isolating itself from the world is very unusual for Western media and important.

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"Westerners must open their eyes to the extent of the historical drama unfolding before us to find the right answers."

And

"This Palestinian question will not fade. And so we must address it and find an answer. This is where we need courage. The use of force is a dead end. The moral condemnation of what Hamas did - and there's no "but" in my words regarding the moral condemnation of this horror - must not prevent us from moving forward politically and diplomatically in an enlightened manner. The law of retaliation is a never-ending cycle."

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RcouF1uZ4gsC ◴[26 Jan 24 21:46 UTC] No.39148966[source]▶
> The law of retaliation is a never-ending cycle

How many wars have the US and Japan fought after WWII?

Or France and Germany after WWII?

How many wars have the US Government and Native Americans fought after 1900?

Sometimes a clear, overwhelming victory ends cycles of violence.

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1. aprilthird2021 ◴[26 Jan 24 22:06 UTC] No.39149261[source]▶
The Marshall Plan and favorable trade agreements the allies gave Japan would never be extended by Israel the way it is and acts now, so there has to be another solution. Destruction didn't turn Germany and Japan around, the ability to uplift themselves did. The very thing which has been denied to Gaza since 2005 at least (and likely much longer)
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2. JumpCrisscross ◴[26 Jan 24 22:20 UTC] No.39149485[source]▶
> Marshall Plan and favorable trade agreements the allies gave Japan would never be extended by Israel the way it is and acts now

Between America and the oil-rich Gulf, I think we can figure it out.

3. mjcohen ◴[26 Jan 24 22:52 UTC] No.39149925[source]▶
Germany and Japan did not have anything in their constitutions advocating the destruction of the allies.