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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: 0s | source
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therobots927 ◴[16 Sep 25 19:22 UTC] No.45266704[source]▶
I for one will be holding my representatives responsible who continue to vote for the US to enable a genocide. The videos coming out of Gaza have turned me and many others into single issue voters.
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beloch ◴[16 Sep 25 20:29 UTC] No.45267542[source]▶
Flipping the U.S. really is the key to ending this conflict. The U.S. reliably uses its security council veto to nix any meaningful UN response and the U.S. remains, by far, the biggest supplier of arms to the IDF. If the US were to stop veto'ing everything and cut off the IDF's supply of, at least, some types of weapons, the new ground assault would likely end quickly.

Unfortunately, that isn't likely to happen. Netanyahu has, to date, handled Trump deftly and Rubio's current presence in Israel seems to be aimed at offering support to the ground offensive, not opposition. I honestly have no idea what kind of backlash it would take to shake U.S. support for this genocide.

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dlubarov ◴[16 Sep 25 21:08 UTC] No.45268075[source]▶
Why would we expect any desirable outcome in this hypothetical though? So the US flips, Israel is pressured into withdrawing, Hamas regains control of the strip and resumes rocket attacks, Israel is forced to respond eventually. It doesn't seem like a path toward a real solution.
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Braxton1980 ◴[16 Sep 25 22:19 UTC] No.45268965[source]▶
Israel needs to take a more precise approach to getting rid of Hamas.
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1. LorenPechtel ◴[17 Sep 25 17:31 UTC] No.45278845{4}[source]▶
People keep saying that but nobody proposes a meaningful more precise approach. There are plenty of military planners in nations hostile to Israel, if there is a better answer why are they not pointing it out to make Israel look bad?

And look at Israel vs Hezbollah--Hezbollah makes little use of human shield tactics, casualties run in the ballpark of 90% combatant. Same force, same type of opponent, what's the difference in Gaza? Hamas makes very heavy use of human shield tactics and worse. We see 30-50% combatants. That implies that the majority of the deaths are because of Hamas.

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2. Braxton1980 ◴[17 Sep 25 23:16 UTC] No.45282606[source]▶
"There are plenty of military planners in nations hostile to Israel, if there is a better answer why are they not pointing it out to make Israel look bad?"

Why would the military in countries hostile to Israel provide Israel with advice or plans on defeating their enemies?

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3. LorenPechtel ◴[18 Sep 25 16:38 UTC] No.45291776[source]▶
To make them look bad.