I made the mistake of looking up this news on Reddit, thinking this would be opposed by the people who love procedure and civility and “international law”.
Big mistake. Don’t do it. You’ll burst your brain/heart from anger and sadness.
That's bc you went to r/worldnews.
If you go anywhere else people call this shit out.
Seriously, worldnews is just western propaganda central; it always has been, but reddit appointed a CIA plant as their director of policy and things got much worse
How are they even justifying it this time
we are watching a people be erased, in real time.
I don’t know what to say beyond stating the blatantly obvious.
However this all concludes whether it be: the worst case, best case, or mixed case scenario I honestly have to wonder out loud how anyone is expected to take phrases like "rules base international order" and "human rights" seriously ever again going forward?
Like I'm not naive and I know it was always bullshit and the rules have always been whatever we say they are but like...is this really gonna just be a case where everything is memory holled and everyone just tried to act like it wasn't all exposed as a fucking sham for everyone to see?
I'm struggling to be cynical enough to believe it will play out like that...so I worry I am naive.
It really depends on how much of the world is paying attention. They did this shit all throughout the Cold War and the global south still worshipped them. Maybe things might be different this time around with social media really highlighting everything wrong.
When you’re a western puppet state, everything is legal
Seems like a step up from murdering every UNRWA employee, which I assume was the only alternative anyone in the knesset considered.
october 7th tho
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