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    Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed

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  • Their harrassment of Ms Bensouda is super creepy, first they sent an envelope of money to her house and then Mossad came to her in a hotel room:

    In one of the earliest encounters, Cohen surprised Bensouda when he made an unexpected appearance at an official meeting the prosecutor was holding with the then DRC president, Joseph Kabila, in a New York hotel suite.

    Sources familiar with the meeting said that after Bensouda’s staff were asked to leave the room, the director of the Mossad suddenly appeared from behind a door in a carefully choreographed “ambush”.

  • Gaza war: Israelis attack aid convoys sent for Palestinians

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  • Thanks for your comment. Fwiw I get most of my information from credible NGOs, and even if UNRWA was magically 100% terrorists (implausible. I've met an Israeli woman who worked as a humanitarian in Gaza and I think she had a pretty good idea of that space) I wouldn't feel any differently about the Gaza Genocide. Nothing excuses it.

    Similarly, preventing civilians losing their lives will always take precedence over preventing civilians losing their jobs.

    I'm from a former colony myself, and history has taught that the only ways Israel can avoid being attacked by the people it has dispossessed would be if it either:

    • stops colonizing/settling/occupying/blockading and makes reparations or
    • genocides and displaces the population to a tiny fraction.

    It's disappointing that in this day and age most Israeli citizens prefer either option 2 or else the status quo of ongoing occupation and violence, but it's not that unusual.

    Personally, I think Israel is highly unlikely to turn back from genocide now. The only hope is for international intervention.

  • US says latest Rafah deaths won't change Israel policy, military aid

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  • It does seem to be. The juxtaposition of Russia invading Ukraine and Israel invading Gaza is pretty stark.

  • Why Is the World Ignoring a Looming Genocide in Sudan?

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  • Doesn't really explain it, I mean the underlying Palestine/Israel thing has been going on for decades too.

    The current Sudanese Civil War has only been going on for 6 months longer than the current Israel vs Gaza hostilities.

  • Why Is the World Ignoring a Looming Genocide in Sudan?

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  • Because neither side is America's aIly of course.

    I went on tiktok yesterday and noticed a bunch of Gen Z mentioning Sudan and DRC as well as the Gaza Genocide. So that was better than usual.

  • The United States used to have cachet in China. Not anymore.

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  • Hmm the US isn't a particularly good example of a democracy.

  • The United States used to have cachet in China. Not anymore.

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  • Part of a wider pattern. The US is losing soft power in many places, I think.

  • If cats could talk, would we expect them to work and contribute to society?

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  • No, not after we heard what they had to say.

    Me "could you please get a job to help pay for catfood?"

    Her "nope. I don't feel like it. I'd rather just move into the bushes and live off rare native birds".

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  • Skyrim, keep seeing things to harvest. Neighbour grew leeks at one point.

    I used to play multiplayer Agar.io a few years ago and got this badly, the game is about circles of various sizes attacking each other and there are circles everywhere irl.

  • What you wish had an active community here on the lemmyverse?

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  • Agreed. At the moment I get most of my history content from following @PugJesus

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    Israeli tanks hit evacuation zone west of Rafah

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  • Back when they told them to go to that evacuation zone many predicted this is what would happen.

    It must be so terrifying to keep being told to move to places and then being attacked when you get to them.

  • Israeli strike hits Rafah area after Hamas barrage

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  • I'm comfortable with my level of engagement thanks.

    You seem to have used personal insults on half the people in the thread at this point, and you keep complaining about Lemmy.

    I get that you're frustrated that we're not talking about whatever it is you want to talk about, but that's life sometimes.

  • Netanyahu admits ‘tragic mistake’ after Israeli strike on Rafah camp kills dozens

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  • They are pointing out that it was intentional and part of a widwr pattern.

    That genocidal ghoul Netanyahu is 36,000 deep in corpses right now, many of them children. He hasn't suddenly grown a conscience or empathy. Something else is going on.

  • What is the most unhinged conspiracy theory?

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  • They are. This is why the deranged idea that being Trans is somehow a "lifestyle choice" doesn't make any sense. It's literally life on hard mode.

  • What is the most unhinged conspiracy theory?

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  • With Time Cube? I didn't know that. You're right, people who get really caught up in conspiracy theories can be vulnerable.

  • Israeli strike hits Rafah area after Hamas barrage

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  • Pol Pot springs to mind...

  • Israeli strike hits Rafah area after Hamas barrage

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  • Anyone reading along in this thread should probably check the veracity of these claimed ratios. Wikipedia has an okay overview.

    It's also worth noting that the Russian wars in Chechnya were particularly notable for their brutal war crimes.

    @FlyingSquid

  • Israeli strike hits Rafah area after Hamas barrage

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  • @Linkerbaan aah that makes sense, thanks for the explanation. I couldn't work out what on earth they were getting at.

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  • @TheFonz I'm sorry but you haven't expressed your position clearly enough for me to summarize and I'm not interested in trying to forensically reconstruct it from your comments as it's too ameliorised.

    Like I said above, this conversation isn't some kind of game for points. It's just us talking about our views.

    or do you only like to hear yourself

    False dichotomy, and a bit of a swing and a miss.

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  • Dresden was a horrendous war crime too.

    I can see how it's harder for you to argue against war crimes from other nations if you're an apologist for war crimes committed by your own ancestors.

    But many of us don't need to jump through those particular rhetorical hoops. The barrage of war crimes in WW2 was part of the impetus for strengthening international law against that shit.

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    Ethiopia: UK warns of food crisis triggered by war and drought

    www.bbc.com /news/world-africa-68198484
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    More than 200 scientists from 19 countries want to tell us the Southern Ocean is in trouble

    theconversation.com /more-than-200-scientists-from-19-countries-want-to-tell-us-the-southern-ocean-is-in-trouble-215529
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    ‘Oh my god’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery

    www.theguardian.com /australia-news/2023/aug/28/live-worm-living-womans-brain-australia-depression-forgetfulness
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    Nearly 80% of Texas' floating border barrier is technically in Mexico, survey finds

    www.cbsnews.com /news/texas-floating-border-barrier-technically-in-mexico-survey-finds/