• Colombia has requested permission from the International Court of Justice to intervene in South Africa’s case against Israel for genocide in Gaza, aiming to protect Palestinian safety and existence.
  • The ICJ has ordered Israel to ensure timely food supplies to Gaza and previously instructed Israel to refrain from actions under the genocide convention and to prevent genocidal acts against Palestinians, which Israel denies, attributing its actions to targeting Hamas rather than civilians.
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Is this the genocide case started by south Africa? Isn’t south Africa currently supporting Russia?

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They don’t support Russia in any way that is conceivably comparable to how the US, UK, or Germany are supporting Israel. There is no equivalency.

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That’s a shaky, unproven allegation for something that is far far far far faaaaaaar less intense compared to the West’s support for Israeli crimes.

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It has nothing to do with Russia. It’s a formal process started by South Africa (who have a long-standing interest in Palestinian human rights because of Apartheid). They have so far been formally joined by Nicaragua and now Colombia.

A bunch of other countries have expressed support and may join at a future date, including Ireland and the African Union.

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Every second we spent talking about Palestine is time we aren’t talking about Russia. Do the maths and u try pretebd u care about saving the maximum number of human lives possible and u will find that Palestine means nothing compared to the Russian threat.

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Agree. That’s why Israelis should cease fire immediately, dismantle the occupation and apartheid, recognize Palestine and pay reparations. So we can focus on what’s actually dangerous to world peace.

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No, we can talk about both and palestine situation is a lot worse.

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And compared to the Iranian threat.

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Yes they do and Russia is happier than ever. The more that people talk about Israel/Gaza, the less they talk about the Russian strategy in Ukraine being mass murder, rape and torture of civilians.

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Wow, those are some serious mental gymnastics, if you think people are only upset about a literal genocide as some sort of distraction.

Still, if that’s what you and @muntedcrocodile genuinely believe, I’d expect you both would be posting articles on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and drawing the kinds of attention you want for that issue.

But when I look at your profiles, neither of you appear to be doing that.

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I haven’t posted a single thing for anything on this account go find my .world account and u can see all the Russian shills I argue with.

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