• Samsy@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    History is written by the winners. And they decide what was a crime and what was self defense.

      • NateNate60@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        "War criminal" is not a term applied liberally to describe people who presided over bad things. It is a term defined by treaty in international law.

        • atomkarinca@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          "Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions;"

          https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/war-crimes.shtml

          2/b/xxv

            • atomkarinca@lemmygrad.ml
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              1 year ago

              the colonial occupation means a continuous state of war, so it makes it a war crime. maybe you should stop being a debatebro.

            • masquenox@lemmy.ml
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              1 year ago

              You’d be better off arguing a case of genocide instead.

              You mean... that thing people who know better have been accusing Israel off since the very start?

                • masquenox@lemmy.ml
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                  1 year ago

                  Nobody is in the clear right and nobody is blameless.

                  No matter what anyone has done - it is Israel (and it's western backers) that carries full responsibility for what occurs here. Period.

                • Clever_Clover [she/her]
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                  1 year ago

                  if a state was perpetuating apartheid (a crime against humanity), ethnic cleansing, and a genocide against your people, where you have most likely personally known/were related to someone who was killed or severely injured by that state

                  don't you think you'd be just a little bit teeny tiny little bit more radical?

                  also, do not equate colonizers to the colonized, one is there to displace and oppress, one is the indigenous population that was ethnically cleansed and massacred.

            • 2Password2Remember [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              "ackshually he only committed genocide, not war crimes!!! 🤓" Jesus Christ you're such a fucking redditor, shut up nerd

              Death to America

              • NateNate60@lemmy.ml
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                1 year ago

                Exactly what I'm saying. And no, I don't find it wrong at all to think this way. I'm sorry if you were angered or offended in some way by my previous comment.

                • UlyssesT
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                  2 months ago

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