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[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 146 points 1 year ago

How do you declare war on a state you don’t recognize?

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Invade Crimea?

[-] Jumpinship@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Not sure if you're trying to be clever? You can start a war against anyone or anything.

[-] Rockyrikoko@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

...take the War on Christmas, for example

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You can attack anyone or anything but formal declarations of war are usually state actions.

I guess I’m partly being clever and pointing out that Israel is waving this word “war” around very generously right now, because they’re always dramatizing the direness of their situation, mainly for the American audience. But technically they shouldn’t be using this word unless they recognize the state of Palestine, which they have historically refused to do.

So, as usual, they’re trying to have it both ways.

[-] KarmaTrainCaboose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure I understand. Does war declaration being a state action require recognition the state of Palestine? Or can they declare war on "Hamas" or any other entity/group of people. Or do they even have to state who they are at war against? Can they just say "we are at war"?

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[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

It's a not-so-civil war, if you will

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Show me a civil war and I’ll show you a friendly murder.

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[-] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 80 points 1 year ago

Wonderful. Now we have two wars that just happen to rile up needless political grandstanding for the uninvolved to fight over, so we wont have to think about the millions of innocents killed in the fighting.

[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Or any really important issues at home.

[-] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 9 points 1 year ago

I dunno, I do sort of think that the deaths of innocent men, women, and children who lived between two warring nations is a big enough deal for us to set down our current affairs.

Im pissed that instead its going to be used as a proxy argument for ongoing at home political pissing matches.

This should make us pause our issues at home. Instead, its going to be used as fuel for the issues at home.

While millions die.

[-] ZzyzxRoad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

That's actually a pretty privileged pov. The hierarchy of need isn't very forgiving. When you can't feed your kids, or yourself, it's hard to give all your attention to a war going on across the world. Which is why US leaders should be leading the US first, instead of dragging foreign wars into their debates so they can try to get political points before an election.

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[-] CylonBunny@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

We don’t get many declarations of war these days. Usually they are just special military actions, or security operations, or something like that. What makes this different?

[-] ubermeisters@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably something about an outright attack against civilians for literally no fucking reason..... ya know just "gotta not let them kill us" kinda reasons?

There's also a decent chance they actually have some sort of government structure that doesnt allow military spending of certain types without a declaration of war.

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 15 points 1 year ago

Wait, you think there is "no fucking reason" that Hamas exists and is doing what they're doing?

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[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Israel is constantly catastrophizing their situation to win sympathy and demonize their enemy. Usually they try to avoid this kind of language because, being the only ones with an organized military, it would be a bad look to be at war with a bunch of refugees. But since they’ve been attacked they’re doing everything they can to paint that attack in the most bombastic terms possible 1) to win sympathy and 2) to justify the military devastation they are about to unleash on a civilian population.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 year ago

Following our decades-long invasion of Palestine and continually calling for Palestine's removal and the genocide of the Palestinian people, we are now calling it war.

[-] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Damn, maybe palestine should have accepted the two state plan in 1947 instead of trying to eliminate all Israeli Jews at the time.

Israel accepted it. Palestine started killing civilians. Then got their asses handed to them repeatedly.

[-] bamboo@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

You have to understand though, prior to the UN proposal, it was all just Palestine. Why should the Palestinians have accepted a UN (foreign, primarily western at the time) proposal to give half of their land to a minority who only began immigrating there en masse in the last 50 years? This was the period of decolonization, and while the rest of the Arab world and Africa was gaining their independence, Palestine was just getting a new map drawn on them by their western colonizers.

It’s easy to say with another 70 years of perspective that it didn’t work out for them, but in 1947 Israel was nothing more than an idea championed by a minority of religious extremists, viewed as terrorists even in the west.

[-] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Prior to the UN proposal it was a British territory. Before that it was part of the Ottoman Empire.

Palestine has never existed as an independent state.

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[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Wow, how gracious of israel, with the backing of the most powerful militaries in the world arrayed against a country without significant military allies, to nominally agree to a two-state plan and then for 75 years violate treaties, kill civilians and constantly invade the other state that essentially can't fight back.

Super brave of them to constantly show force with the US military backing them.

I'm sure Israel appreciates you admiring their genocide.

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[-] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago

So their mass murder of civilians will now be under the guise of a war. Sigh

[-] Nonameuser678@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago

This seems like a really unevenly weighted war. Israel has nukes and is supported by most of the west. Vengeance and violence are also never a good mix so this will likely get ugly fast. It'll be interesting to see where the line is, if it exists at all, on how much violence the West will publicly support.

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