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Atlas667[dead post] ◴[] No.45268158[source]
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1. eej71 ◴[] No.45268500[source]
Israel seems like a very ineffective bully considering that the UN consistently condemns them the most vs. any other country in the world.

https://unwatch.org/un-condemns-israel-17-times-6-on-rest-of...

But for me, this says more about the nature of the UN than that of Israel.

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2. lazyasciiart ◴[] No.45269290[source]
At this point any Israel supporter can’t really afford to care about anybody’s opinion on human rights, so it doesn’t matter who is saying this. I’m sure the UN doesn’t expect their report to influence the people committing the genocide they are documenting: they hope to influence the rest of the world.
3. alsetmusic ◴[] No.45269896[source]
Students in the USA had their images posted on the sides of vans / trucks for protesting genocide. That may not be directly funded by the state of Israel, but it's difficult to squint and not see that this is a direct result of their lobbying and / or the lobbying of groups they support or who act on their behalf.
4. gerash ◴[] No.45271081[source]
Are they?

Yossi Cohen the director at Mossad used the photo of the ICC judge’s husband to threaten her not to rule aginst Israel.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/israel...

5. bjoli ◴[] No.45272151[source]
UNRWA -as tens of thousands of people| in Gaza, mostly locals. What would be surprising is if no-one of them supported Hamas.

regarding the number of condemnations: the un is directly involved in gaza, and has been for 70 years. At the same time, the US has blocked any binding resolution in the security council.

At the same time Israel is supposed to be the only democracy in the middle east, and thus subscribe totl the values that funded the UN. That makes it's transgressions feel even worse to many - myself included.