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Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

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1332 points Qem | 3 comments | 16 Sep 25 08:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.6s | source
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ipaddr ◴[16 Sep 25 19:54 UTC] No.45267137[source]▶
Wonder why this made the frontpage when other political articles die.

Has the rules around political non technical articles changed? Can we get an Epstein thread for the frontpage sometime this week?

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banku_brougham ◴[16 Sep 25 20:51 UTC] No.45267868[source]▶
maybe because we are two years into an event that will define the early 21st century.
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margalabargala ◴[17 Sep 25 05:02 UTC] No.45271872[source]▶
What about "there is war in the middle east, still/again" is remotely unique enough in the last century to be a defining moment of the half-century?

If an event has the potential to be that, it's the near-peer land war in Europe.

The current Israel/Gaza conflict is a blip that is mildly different in degree than the same thing that has happened every decade or so since Israel was created.

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1. rf15 ◴[17 Sep 25 05:17 UTC] No.45271983[source]▶
Not to this degree in the last few decades. But I feel you are overall correct, it's just that the Internet allows for much bigger coverage of the details of the horrors committed, and it's interesting how governments around the world now fail so completely to shape the narrative.
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2. margalabargala ◴[17 Sep 25 06:23 UTC] No.45272418[source]▶
Yeah it's worse.

The October 7th attacks were way worse than Hamas attacks that came before in recent history. The response was way worse than what has happened before in recent history.

And so both sides feel fully justified with their courses of action, because of what the other side did to them. That is the part that is so much not unique.

3. throwaway3060 ◴[17 Sep 25 14:04 UTC] No.45275992[source]▶
Governments are still shaping the narrative, it's just that the ones that are most skilled and successful in manipulating social media happen to be the non-Western ones (Think about China controlling Tiktok, or the various Russia election influence theories).