• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    ”Netanyahu,” he continued, “has been dealing with America the way a spoiled teenager deals with his parents: with perpetual rebellion, perpetual insults and perpetual scandals.”

    While not inaccurate, I’d resent this association if I was still a teenager.

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      6 months ago

      I think this is a little unfair to spoiled teenagers. They have never committed genocide.

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      6 months ago

      Why would the US still think of Israel as its ally?

      Calling Israel a “spoiled child” sounds delusional at this point.

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        6 months ago

        Mainly I’d say because of Iran. Bibi hated the nuclear deal because he needs Iran as a wedge to keep the US behind them.

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    6 months ago

    Media is really going to try and spin abstaining from a nonbinding resolution as some courageous stand against Israel…

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      6 months ago

      It’s not non binding. Security council resolutions are binding.

      America just lied and said it’s non binding right after the resolution passed to cover for israel anyways. But it’s not true.

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        6 months ago

        So, it was a binding resolution for immediate ceasefire…

        There’s no ceasefire…

        So how is it binding? Where’s the enforcement?

        Has any country even stopped aid to Israel because they’re continuing their genocide?

        Israel is still flagrantly breaking international law, which is more “binding” than any UN resolution

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          6 months ago

          Israel has violated like 140 UN resolutions. Enforcement votes get blocked by the US.

          As long as Genocide Joe keeps sending them more bombs they will continue.

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          6 months ago

          The UN is a diplomatic platform, that occasionally goes kinetic with peacekeeping or aid missions. The majority of the UN is bureaucrats of various levels, talking to other bureaucrats of various levels, to work together.

          The UN is also the world police, but much more like a bounty hunter than a SWAT team. Any enforcement actions taken, are VERY targeted, have very well defined limits and rules, and basically requires a sponsor nation(s) to actually go Do The Thing. Which also requires the UN to agree to all those limits, rules, etc and to agree that enforcement is required.

          Very often the UN gets bogged down by geopolitical influence issues, like with Syria in the 2010s. The no-fly zone that kept Gadaffi’s Air Force from stopping the uprising, wasn’t a UN action.

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            6 months ago

            Not yet, and it was only supposed to last till 4/9…

            So there’s not a lot of time for it to go into effect, which was the whole point of “immediate”.

            That’s what I mean. People want to make this seem like a huge deal, but even if it happens eventually, it won’t last long.

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    6 months ago

    Holy shit. Bibi may have actually fatally overplayed his hand. This is incredible.

    Fucking tragic that it took a genocide to do it, though.

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    6 months ago

    It’swhat they get for “Biten” the hand that’s been feeding them for months…