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WhatAmLemmy
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The terms of what's considered "war crimes" have changed... pray that they don't change any further!
MAD is only a nuclear deterrent. Unless/until someone uses a nuclear weapon, WW3 would be a conventional war, like Ukraine. If Putin were to start invading NATO countries, the response from NATO would be conventional — nobody who isn't insane and suicidal would choose to launch nukes, unless they genuinely believed that they are being nuked (which makes nuclear terrorism a real existential threat).
What MAD means is nuclear powers are unlikely to be physically invaded, especially in areas of known nuclear weapon installations — a nuclear power believing it is facing imminent defeat, or nuclear attack, is most likely to use them; dictators like Putin are sociopathic enough to take the entire species with them.
They were for most of Israels history, and they taught the current gen both nationalism, and how to treat the "others".
It would be a victim complex if they actually believed their stance, but it's really just a classic case of the abused becoming the abuser... or, more accurately, the genocided becoming the genocider.
190 is ~0.006% of the UNRWA's 30k staff. Withholding aid from 1.5 million refugees over this is fucking criminal.
I just learned that the UNRWA has 30,000 employees; most of which are Palestinian refugees.
It's practically unavoidable to employ 0.5% of all Palestinians and not have some be involved in the largest attack in decades, but cutting aid to an org of 30k, that supports 1.5 million refugees, because of the actions of ~0.006% of the staff is completely ruthless and criminal.
I wouldn't be surprised if the allegations were true, but at this point I also wouldn't be surprised if the allegations were not only false, but intentionally false.
Working to defund a Palestinian refugee support org at the time they're needed the most — when 1.5 million people are relying on them for survival — would be a highly sadistic act of genocide.
Per conflict. Not combined. Even the larger conflicts that were relatively indiscriminate took a long time to ramp up and kill so many civilians.
Ukraine recorded the same amount in ~18 months.
The Iraq war averaged the same amount (20-30k) per YEAR.
Even Vietnam averaged about 10-15k civilians in the same amount of time.
Also, the population of all of the above is/was 10-20x larger than Gaza.
They were so careful they killed more civilians in the last 3 months than were killed in the first 3 months of almost every war since WW2.
I'm genuinely surprised that nothing has changed after no effort was made to change things. The fuck?
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