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Israel military reportedly surrounding hospitals in Gaza and shooting at those trying to flee, UN says (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5569400

Original link: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/11/1143482

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

At what point does the world look at this and say that enough is enough.

Do we ever, really? Over the sum of all war-related humanitarian disasters, the West responds to very few of them, and only when it's economically or geopolitically useful. The Palestinian crisis is no different; it's not exceptional in any way. There's an ongoing nightmare in DRC that's orders of magnitude worse than what's happening in Gaza and... no one cares. Europe and the U.S. are on the verge of disengaging from Ukraine.

The thing is, it doesn't even matter if we "condemn this behavior." We could do that all we want and it wouldn't make much difference. And no one wants to be interventionist - there's too much awful history around it, and it smacks of colonialism, and it means taking resources away from "domestic issues" that always seem to matter more.

We've got to move away from the notion that the situation in Gaza is somehow unique. It allows us to conveniently ignore the root causes of the problem, which is much more universal, and stems from the ongoing sense of cultural superiority on the part of Europe and the U.S.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US only cares about human rights and war crimes when they can be exploited to take over a nation's resources.