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[–] filister@lemmy.world 21 points 20 hours ago

This is what happens when you act with absolute impunity and ignore international law.

This creates a very serious precedent in history, when other parties can think that they can act the same way. International law exists for a reason!

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago

Much like water has characteristics consistent with water.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Every time there's an article of a report confirming "yes, this looks, smells and feels like a genocide", there's always a statement of "nuh uh it's not" included from the government perpetrating it.

Like if someone is accused of murder or manslaughter, does the news get a statement from the accused and publish them saying "uh, no I didn't, he probably just tripped and fell" or something?

[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Like if someone is accused of murder or manslaughter, does the news get a statement from the accused and publish them saying "uh, no I didn't, he probably just tripped and fell" or something?

I mean... Yes? That seems like a very basic fact for them to report.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That is true, but the article gives a very significant chunk for the Israeli government to excuse themselves when typically the statement would be at the end.

[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah that's fair. You don't need to give them a ton of space

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What would you expect them to say? Has there ever been a government in history that committed a genocide and admitted to it while they were doing it (without having lost a war to an invading army)?

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago

It don't expect them to say differently, I expect the press to write the statement at the end very briefly rather than so thoroughly and prominently in the middle.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 21 points 1 day ago

Actually, yes. It happens quite often that the papers print that someone was arrested or stands trial but claims to be innocent.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

They should just scribble into the definitions of Genocide in the UN .... 'except for Israel'