It would be great if they all just recognized Palestine as a country and cut all trade with Israel immediately until they stopped. Instead of a symbolic walk out, actually walk out of their lives... And you can verify if they cut their shit out
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Like... some sort of Final Solution, you say?
i know right!
just in time, phew
this is the peace plan, i know it in my soul, i was reading km this morning, oh it was so good, it just said hamas will make peace to me over and over and over again
yay
Apparently, Israel hacked phones in Gaza to blast out Netanyahu's speech as he was giving it. If that had happened in the Superman movie, the audience would have said that's a bit too comic book villainous.
That's some straight up Joker shenanigans.
Id say that's more red skull or scarecrow personally, Joker generally only cares about it for folks who are in on the joke IE have context.
It would be great if they would all walk out on Trump too.
Half of them probably fell asleep about 20 minutes into his insane rant
Twenty minutes is about how long a normal person can be reasonably expected maintain attention, even if the content is interesting. That's why TED talks are 20 minutes long.
On the other hand, Trump's rants are mind numbing. You're either seriously trained at listening, or you have something wrong with your brain, if you can listen to him for more than 2 minutes without zoning out.
I can’t even listen to him for 10 seconds without becoming irrationally angry.
It's not irrational when you have valid reasons. The man is infuriating with his ego, lies, projection, and bigotry.
I tried zoning out, but it doesn't work for me. I hate him so much, I have to stop whatever is playing his bullshit.
Imagine a world where the US respected the International Criminal Court and this man was arrested the minute he set foot on American soil.
Ok, so hear me out. The ICC is a UN body. The UN headquarters is international soil. Why couldn't the UN security services arrest him and send him to stand trial at the ICC?
Trump would then go gaga against the ICC.
Because of this the American Service Members Protection Act
The act gives the president power to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court.
This authorization led to the act being nicknamed "The Hague Invasion Act", since the act would allow the president to order military action in The Hague, the seat of the ICC, to prevent American or allied officials and military personnel from being prosecuted or detained by the ICC.
The subsection (b) specifies this authority shall extend to "Covered United States persons" (members of the ("Armed Forces of the United States"), elected or appointed officials of the United States Government, and other persons employed by or working on behalf of the United States Government) and "Covered allied persons" (military personnel, elected or appointed officials, and other persons employed by or working on behalf of the government of a NATO member country, a major non-NATO ally including Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Argentina, the Republic of Korea, and New Zealand).
By contrast the wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu received over FIFTY standing ovations when he addressed the US Congress last year.
Finish its final solution. He should have been rotting in prison a long time ago
Really wish the UN had some kind of method to stop counties from clearly and openly committing genocide
Not arrest. Not put on trial. Not disarm.
Walkout…
US has veto power. There is no possible way for the UN to do anything.
The UN is flawed by design.
Russia has veto it vote against any resolution about Ukraine. European countries still provide billions in aid and arms to Ukraine to defend itself . The genocide convention is a bigger authority document than UN resolutions
Yeah, but at the time the US could have fought every nation on the planet to a standtill and the USSR could have fought every nation on the planet but the US to a standstill, so there was no way to not make them permanent members of the security council with veto power since they could just ignore other countries if they wanted.
Yes it is flawed, but it was basically "give the 5 largest powers veto power, or they don't participate". If they don't participate, it would be even more ornamental than it currently is.
Ideally they would have more power to stop shit like this, but the UN as it stands is better than nothing. They do bring countries together to talk things through that otherwise might not have and have successfully de-escilated issues in the past.
I'm not saying people shouldn't expect, or push for, better, and I'm not saying this is your view point, but I do see the sentiment that they're useless/do nothing quite often.
Walking out won't ultimately achieve much... But it's at least better than sitting their and letting him feel validated in his psychopathic plans.
I am not asking for a legal framework to enforce acts of anti-genocide.
The permanent UNSC members with veto power was a huge mistake. But possibly it was nessecary or these members wouldn't have joined at all and the UN would have been stillborn. The US now has cast more vetoes than the rest of the UNSC permanent members combined
Its been flawed for a pretty long time at this point. The fact that Russia has remained a member for all these years is proof enough of that.
Cool but have those countries ended trade with Israel? Declared sanctions? Sent military aid to the PLO? Establish a no-fly zone? I'm glad this happened, its a start, but it's not enough and Gaza is running out of time.
Weird times when Ireland's PM is the voice of reason at the UN
One of many voices of reason. Many nom Western countries are on the right side of history on this one.
When have they not been?
This guy is from a centre right party. Not exactly my first ranked choice (or any for that matter).
Tony Blair to rule Gaza for five years. What the fuck is that weird ass fan fiction of reality!? XD
I'm so sick of all of the performative grandstanding. Grab this fucker and throw him in a deep hole. Nice walkout guys, you really showed him.
What performative wankery. A bunch of them are just sitting down clapping. Did he still speak? Was he arrested?
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