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Francesca Albanese has held the genocide line since day one as the UN special rapporteur on israel and palestine
by dmbche 1y ago
Francesca Albanese has held the genocide line since day one as the UN special rapporteur on israel and palestine
- dotancohen 1y agoShe's hardly impartial. Her husband worked for the Palestinian Authority.
- dmbche 1y agoWether she is or not is not for me to decide - at any rate, her analysis seems to have been absolutely spot on if we are now recognizing it is a genocide, isn't it? And if you think the UN rapporteur is too biased to do their job correctly, why do you care what the UN does?
- dotancohen 1y ago[flagged]
- dmbche 1y ago[flagged]
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> her analysis seems to have been absolutely spot on if we are now recognizing it is a genocide, isn't it? No, no more than someone who predicts a market crash every day is proven right the one time they nail it. The quality and objectivity of the analysis matters. Not just the conclusion.
- dmbche 1y agoShe didn't predict anything, she analysed evidence and arrived to the same conclusion as the ruling you qre recognizing today. Odd you can't reconcile that both parties can be correct
- dotancohen 1y ago> she analysed evidence and arrived to the same conclusion as the ruling you qre recognizing today. No, the UNHCR's conclusion is based on her report. Your argument is circular.
- AuthAuth 1y agoThe evidence didnt exist day 1
- dmbche 1y ago[flagged]
- fahhem 1y agoA market crash is a one-time event. A genocide is ongoing. This would be like someone claiming since 2003 there was a pedo ring in the upper echelons of society and everyone calling them a liar until...
- lazyasciiart 1y agoOoh, can we dismiss all statements from someone who is related to someone who worked for the Israeli government or was in the IDF too? Wait, you know people who were killed by Hamas? You can’t even pretend to be impartial.
- dotancohen 1y ago[flagged]
- dmbche 1y agoI'm uninsterested in your credibility or opinion on wether or not it's a genocide. Courts have ruled it is. The world has ruled it is. You can skirm all you want, in 6 months you'll say you always thought it was a genocide. Mark my words.
- dotancohen 1y agoWhat court has ruled this a genocide? The "top UN legal investigators" was a 3-person commission of the UN HRC.
- dmbche 1y ago[flagged]
- mpweiher 1y agoThey have not.
- dmbche 1y agoThey have - not in a final ruling, but in mutliple rulings adjacent, provisional measures for example. Feel free to read what the courtd have made public for all to see
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- etc-hosts 1y agoIsn't the PA mostly funded by Israel? Hamas and PA loathe each other.
- dotancohen 1y agoYou have to understand the culture. Looking at Hamas and the PA and assuming that their actions and decisions would be the same as those a Western culture would decide, is incorrect. The phrase "my brother and I against my cousin, my cousin and I against my neighbor, my neighbor and I against the neighboring state, the neighboring state and I against the world" is a paraphrase of an Arabic phrase the nicely summarises the relevant culture. I'll show you a clearer example of why the PA and Hamas are united in the front against Israel. You are aware that Shii Hezbollah and Iran are currently aligned with Suni Hamas against Israel, yes? Do you know what Hezbollah will do to Hamas if they ever overcome Israel? The current war in Gaza will look like a picnic. Go look at what is happening right now in Syria if you are unfamiliar, or ISIS, or Google for any other Shii-Sunni conflict. In English you have the expression "united we stand, divided we fall". The Arabic expression that I mentioned pretty much encompasses that "united we stand" part, without the self-interest of "divided we fall".