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

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517 points xbar | 1 comments | 26 Jan 24 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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AzzyHN ◴[27 Jan 24 00:50 UTC] No.39151089[source]▶
What would happen if they did order a ceasefire? Who would enforce this?
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nojvek ◴[27 Jan 24 01:50 UTC] No.39151555[source]▶
I feel this is where the world is seeing the failure of US.

When US have Ukraine weapons to defend themselves, we were the good guys.

When US gives Israel the weapons to attack and airbomb Palestinians in daylight it puts US in a very bad light.

US should be the ones enforcing a cease fire. Where no side gets to airbomb each other.

Every life is valuable. Israelis or Palestinians.

The failure of US policy is to be the gatekeeper of world peace. We have the largest army by far. We spend an obscene amount of our taxes on defense.

Yet we failed to keep peace.

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1. presentation ◴[27 Jan 24 04:39 UTC] No.39152626[source]▶
The US’s motivations are to maximize its power and profits, to think it is to keep the peace is naive. There are other, more economically valuable regions with conflicts in the world whose situations have higher probability of clean resolution than the Palestine conflict, so the US will focus on those instead until it is forced not to.

Anyway, there is no resolution to Israel/Palestine that won’t involve the probable demise of one of the two’s futures. Bloods being spilled and it will continue to be spilled.