#the ICJ is useless

[wastedandbasted]

Wow, Netanyahu is still gonna go thru with invading Rafah despite what the ICJ says. Gee, I can't believe it. What a shock. Never saw it coming.

[havingnonamesucks]

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[pharaohcarterkane]

Full article here

[news4dzhozhar]

[themilfking]

Something to keep in mind about the ICJ's interim ruling/future ruling is that the next steps come through the UN's security Council. They typically work to enforce any judgement by the ICJ.

We know that the Security Council's power is limited by the veto powers of its permanent members (US, France, UK, China and Russia) so we can expect Israel's allies to veto any measures the council comes up with but I'm hoping there's some pressure being applied to the US (let's be real, if anything is Vetod it's def gonna come from America).

Even if all of that doesn't happen, Netanyahu has made it clear he doesn't intend to comply with any ruling by the ICJ/Security Council.

The real impact needs to come from other countries putting pressure on Israel's allies to reconsider their stance on Israel and to consider sanctions/arms dealing/aid etc. Since there is no global mechanism in place to force compliance, the biggest impact is going to come from putting pressure on allies of Israel that also sit as permanent members of the security council (US, UK, France).

You and I can help by continuing to put pressure on our reps (local, state, federal) and amplifying the BDS movement.

[kelluinox]

Listening to westerners is becoming increasingly like listening to vatniks and it's frightening and depressing

[terephin]

This is the most pathetic thing ever. If you acknowledge that a nation is commiting a genocide then it’s your obligation as an international legal entity to make them stop. We should be seeing both Israeli politicians and active Israeli military personnel on international wanted lists for both war crimes and crimes against humanity.

ID: A tweet that says

"BREAKING: The International Court of Justice does not order a ceasefire in its ruling"

End id

speechless

[archtroop]

Sometimes I need to remind myself that tumblr is a fringe social network, and is by far not the average. What it is though, is a good sampler of the more extreme, I would say, ideologically swayed. A bit.

The more comments and notes I read from the Free Palestine crowd, the more it gets obvious that these are incapable, useful idiots. Literally, spoonfed couchpotatos at best. Starbucks Boycoyters at worst.

It's like the 00's insecure attention seeking posers, with an amoral, ignorant twist to them.

And they are entirely, ABSOLUTELY useless people.

Some morally rotten such individual wrote me that "Israel deserves what's coming for them, you deserve to die" etc. And it really made me think. What's coming? WHO'S coming? You? You, an unemployed tumblrina? You and what army?

What are you gonna do? Try to kill us all? What's the WORST you can do that wasn't, hasn't been tried already?

Truth is, no one is coming.

You read about this pompous, self indulgent "Palestinian Activism Solidarity ". What the FUCK are you talking about? Where is it? What, SA under IRI at the ICJ?.... Watermelon emojis...? ...Slogans?

The most "affective" actions FreePalestine Movement "achieved" was a few shootings/stabbings/rammings here and there, a hostage situation in Turkey in the name of Palestine (the man was executed on the spot after some negotiations. Turkey, yeah). A few burnt synagogues around the world and a whole lot of terrorized Jews in the Diaspora. Not a single Palestinian benefited. Not in Gaza anyway. To sum it up, what exactly are you gonna do? Blow yourself up in a subway in the name of Palestine? How incredibly unoriginal and unhelpful. Although expected and unsurprisingly fitting to the roots of the movement, I'll give you all that.

No one is coming. A lot of pakapaka from Nassrallah and Co. and a radio silence from the Arab world.

Iran pulled the Houthies out of their boydem only for Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan to reluctantly push the button to down Houthie ammo flying towards Israel. Houthies "asked" of Saudi Arabia to "let them cross over to fight the Zionists", and not only this is a joke, a caravan of sandals-wearing, AK-47 totting, Houthie caravan crossing Saudia to do what exactly? Bite Israeli ankles in Eilat Port? Rather It's an insult, to show that "here see we tried", since Saudis are fighting the Houthies FOR YEARS, it was never an actual option to begin with.

Are you blind? No. One. Is. Coming.

After 75 years of trying to erase Israel from the map, the 7th of October unleashed what could only have happened after Israel had its last straw broken.

Congratulations, you've managed at dehumanizing Israelis to the point that you managed to rob us from one aspect of humanity, even if temporarily: our symphaty.

Not forever, but for a period. And when you did so, you WERE LUCKY, for US were here WITHIN MINUTES, being smart enough to talk Israel out from attacking on the freaking spot. Instead, Israel waited 3 damn weeks. For 3 weeks, Israel called for the evacuation of Gazans from the northern side of Gaza.

Symphaty has an expiration date. The 7th of October 2023 was that date. You backed Israel to a wall, and no slogan will suffice against a nation that KNOWS that its very existence was threatened in a very real, visceral, inhumane, and depraved way.

No one is coming. Not for us, not for the Gazans. The Arab world is waiting to see, when will they wake up with one Iranian proxy less on the map. The truth is, aside from the pakapaka all round the clock, Isrsel was left with "do what you do, we wait" kind of global attitude.

Arab nations don't care about Palestinians. They don't care for the Palestinian Cause. Never had. It was always for show, as a pawn. A distraction. And we know it, very well.

The Palestinians are, and always were, used. They were used to carry on this idea that Israel would disappear from the map. If not by force, then by proxy warfare and terrorism, with time. If not by proxies, then by mass protest and public opinion. But the thing is, reality is a material thing. You need TO DO a thing for it TO HAPPEN. And public opinion rarely holds. And for how it's loud, the Free Palestine Movement is nothing but that: Loud.

As for the undoing of Israel and Bney Israel, well. Many have tried.

And oh boy, did the Arab nations TRIED.

They PAYED for trying.

But that's in the past, largely. Now, the annihilation of Israel and the creation of a Palestine is just a cruel pipe dream, with human prisoners, and an international cheering squad. After all, you can't free something that never existed and couldn't form one coherent ideology that makes sense and strives towards a positive, creation-adjacent activity in 75 years of its yappery. It's just not there. If the ideology surrounds destruction, it can not create. It can only destroy.

You may shout your lungs out and make up all kinds of delusional narratives. In the end, they are just that: empty words to make the righteous self of the woke crowd feel better, to feel active. To be a part.

To be USED.

It says a lot about the sad reality of this mass of people. The yearning for purpose, this loneliness. The rootlessness. Loss of identity. Identities so fractured, so incohesive. Loss of trust in the institution. The shallow knowledge. The practically non-existent reading comprehension.

All are easily diverted to create this cult like behavior.

People cry their eyes out over something that not only they have zero way of affecting but oftentimes is inflated, twisted, and presented as something completely false, or fake or what have you, instead of looking around them and doing something about their own realities. Pouring their hearts out over an unreality, fruitless.

This is either willful ignorance or escapism. Can't even say which one is worse.

This mass is being used. It creates a pool of despair, mysery. Feelings of "not enough", of unachievment. Those masses are breeding grounds for terrorism activity recruitment.

One party, one goal.

Free Palestine is a magic combination of words. You would ask, what is it? And they would sell you, ah, it's this magical place over the rainbow far, far away, and you can be the savior of those people. What a beautiful fantasy. Except you can't save those who did all their best to commit a slow, painstaking suicide, over 75 years. It's unrealistic, whatever this so-called "movement" is yapping about. There are no outlines, no strategy. It's just empty, big, bombastic words, to rile up emotionally as many people as possible, who look for a meaning.

I keep remembering the movie The Wave (2008). It's amazing how word by word, scene by scene, the story is playing out right now with worrying accuracy.

I don't know where this will lead Europe, UK, US, Canada... Australia... you all should be on high alert internally. But one thing is pretty clear.

No one is coming. As for Israel... You did your worst already. You have left Israel with nothing to be afraid of.

BDS biggest achievement was the eventual unemployment of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank. UN is a joke. Red Cross is a joke. UNRWA exposed, visibly and undeniably. Abraham Accords are proceeding, even if slower, yet still they do. HAMAS gets mopped the floor with. And Lebanon has to do the impossible: drag Hezbollah away from the Isrseli border. Otherwise, there won't be much of a Lebanon to speak about in a very short amount of time. And that's not even a threat. It's reality. As government officials in Lebanon plead with Hezbollah to halt, Israel is ready on the border for 80,000 Israelis are internally displaced within Isrsel itself because of the war with HAMAS, but mainly away from the northern border because of constant shelling by Hezbollah.

And it won't hold forever.

And no one is coming.

Because who will? You and what army?

[pharahsgf]

i hope all the news channels, newspapers etc who were twiddling their thumbs during south africa's icj case against israel but are diligently broadcasting & reporting on israel's dogshit defence go bankrupt immediately. i hope they'll forever be remembered as the anti-humanitarian, useless, cowardly vehicles of imperialism that they are

[apas-95]

I do think it's a bit funny that everyone who was decrying the UN and ICRC as useless functionaries a few weeks ago are now holding what I'd say is a fairly credulous notion of the importance and efficacy of the ICJ solely and specifically in the context of arguing the importance of social media posts (with the shaky foundation of 'IDF soldiers posted evidence of war crimes on telegram' — something unrelated to the claims being made about usefulness of social media as a tool of effecting change, unless the implication is that online activism should be principally focused on baiting troops into posting incriminating videos, rather than the more common topics of nebulously Raising Awareness and Holding Accountable). No real consistent principles at the base of it other than self-aggrandisement, and the ability to tap into public sentiments of indignation or hopefulness, respectively.

[dragoneer99]

The ICJ ruling was completely toothless. It didn't even state that Israel had to stop conducting genocide, just "try to reduce civilian deaths." Biden is oh so very upset but just keeps pumping them full of money and weapons.

The US government deserves to burn and the United Nations is completely useless.

[news4dzhozhar]

[blorbocedes]

icj ruling today. a very emperor's new clothes moment. either it will rule on what we're seeing on our phones in plain daylight and have it on record or international law proves itself wholly useless, even symbolically

[strangeauthor]

the un is useless the hauge is useless the icj isnt doing anything is there ANYONE in the world that can do ANYTHING or is it all just for fucking show im so angry

[el-smacko]

I used to like Jon Stewart but his treatment of the Gaza genocide was fucking bullshit.

“No one seems to be incentivized to stop the suffering of the innocent people in this region.” Ansar Allah’s blockade? Allies in Lebanon and Iraq like Hizbullah? South Africa??? The “Cycle of Violence” myth that everyone is at fault when Israel is the one who’s been ethnically cleansing Palestinians with the West’s help for a century. Equating “destroying Israel” (a nonhuman country/state entity) with a call for genocide while the Palestinian people are actually suffering genocide, a word he didn’t use. Saying the UN has been useless when South Africa won their case at the ICJ and it’s the US who has been consistently vetoing ceasefire resolutions. Calling for a Middle East equivalent of NATO—who famously used a UN resolution to fuck over an Arab state before—to create a “demilitarized zone” between Israel and Palestine as if a) that worked for Korea and b) the partition of Palestine or any other state has ever been a fruitful endeavor or at all acceptable in cases of apartheid—to say nothing of the fact that he or his writers seem entirely ignorant of the previous Arab coalitions’ actions in the region.

Fuck Jon Stewart, moment unmet.

[falasteen7urrah]

ANGRY RANT BELOW!!

also bcs people love to hate on the internet like sincerely I think the first thing when people think when they see something on the internet is how can I construe this in a way that I can attack and hate on them. Hate all you want tbh idgaf. I’m a Gaza evacuee.

Anyways…

Every single person keeps talking about dumb fu87king useless politics like the U.N. or the bs icj or any of that BS is going to help anyone, I used to sit down and write five thousand words easily about Gaza about the people the history the situation and now I can barely get anything out because my mind is light years away in pain agonizing of everything I know and see and think and I hate it I hate it so much this is I wrong nobody NOBODY can imagine what’s going on there what’s become normal or what’s been getting worse, I effing hate everything, the barbarity, the depravity, the hell that has plagued our world to be able to justify or normalize what’s been going on in Gaza is disgusting, and I’m just spitting out useless bs like everyone else who truly or fake (virtue signaling) talks about Gaza. No amount of words or actions is going to end what’s happening in Gaza and I would have rather stayed and died there and I genuinely do not care to continue to be alive and see this continue. I genuinely think few people have done anything for Gaza or actually cares. Sorry. I just don’t. I’ve said this now a billion times when I was inside I didn’t fear death I knew that wasn’t the end (we believe in the afterlife) so it was always more like but my friends but my family but then or this but i was there I was there and the possibility of my death was constant now I’m here in safe and sure I can still die we all can but I’m safe and away and now I’m just in the audience watching each of my friends being plucked off like insignificant numbers.

Also the shifa siege is fu7king horrific 78 years SECEBTY EIGHT years of healing and medicine at that hospital and now it’s been made into a graveyard a incenerated death zone I hate seeing those pictures and videos so much. Literally you have no idea how happy literally every gazan were when they got the new er building also there’s a huge shopping area outside of the hospital cause it’s in the center of remal like the main city so it was always such a busy place there’s a lot of shopping areas around it if you ever seen videos from before the wars there’s lots of street vendors just like around schools there’s a lot of street vendors foods and fruits and even clothes like right outside of it. And the level of desensitization that people have to look at those horrific pictures and videos coming out of there is absolutely disgusting with the high violence high sexuality of movies no in days people are so desensitized to seeing these real life things and in their mind it’s probably just filed away because they see these sorts of things in movies all the time where in reality these are real people real stories it’s just barbaric and I can’t effing do this anymore.