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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: 0.31s | source
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yyyk ◴[27 Jan 24 03:46 UTC] No.39152314[source]▶
If you had an inkling of a genocide going on and a chance to act, obviously you'd immediately do anything in your power to stop it? Despite the judges being appointed by their own countries*, I'm sure they have humanity. So this is an acquittal in all but name.

Oh, they'll keep monitoring and the case will take years, but the result is obvious even now.

* e.g. It's obvious the Russian judge has strong incentives to vote as Putin tells them to, otherwise they'd have to move to a windowless basement where the only access is by an elevator...

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1. alephnan ◴[27 Jan 24 05:45 UTC] No.39152959[source]▶
> If you had an inkling of a genocide going on and a chance to act, obviously you'd immediately do anything in your power to stop it?

Doesn’t seem people care about what’s going in Africa. People care here because this is a war of religion. And by that, I mean whether Western countries remain increasingly supreme (in terms of the world order).