Nawaf Salam, the head of the International Court of Justice: “Israel must immediately hold its military offensive of any other action in the Rafah governorate which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza, conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”

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    The main use for these decisions right now is to hold libs’ feet to the fire. Oh, you’re Mr. Rules Based International Order? You think we’re the good guys? You think this is a complicated, messy situation but whaddayagonna do? Here’s an objective, prestigious international observer saying it’s genocide.

    Short of anything really cool happening, this is going to end the way apartheid South Africa ended: gradual economic and political isolation plus on-the-ground resistance resulting in some version of the Israeli government deciding the current course is untenable.

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      Will the US let the Isntreali government decide that though? The whitehouse seems to be extremely vociferous in its backing of israel, way more than apartheid South Africa.

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            the IOF can’t coordinate not shooting their own guys, the US isn’t going to put their troops in that line of fire, and if they did they’d be pretty useless

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          Putting pro-Palestine young people in the US into work camps to revitalize our “defense” industry? Seizing those same people’s assets (and their parents’ assets) to recruit fresh settlers with extra financial rewards?

          These steps aren’t materially more helpful than today’s blank check but they would send a powerful message of unwavering commitment to the Zionist colony.

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            i think you’d need to send prisoners as the colonists Australia-style. Israel is bleeding settlers and i don’t think they’ll be more disposed as Israel becomes even more of a pariah and its conditions decline.