Francesca Albanese has held the genocide line since day one as the UN special rapporteur on israel and palestine
And if you think the UN rapporteur is too biased to do their job correctly, why do you care what the UN does?
No, no more than someone who predicts a market crash every day is proven right the one time they nail it. The quality and objectivity of the analysis matters. Not just the conclusion.
Odd you can't reconcile that both parties can be correct
> she analysed evidence and arrived to the same conclusion as the ruling you qre recognizing today.
Wait, you know people who were killed by Hamas? You can’t even pretend to be impartial.
The point is that, as someone with limited stakes in this war and limited exposure to its history until recently, unbiased sources have been hard to come by. The entire definition of genocide has been politicised. That isn't a criticism of anyone doing it--language is a powerful tool, and it's fair game to try and bend definitions to one's advantage. But all that makes piercing the veil on whether this is the horribleness of war being selectively cited, or a selectively horrible war, tough.
This report cuts through that. The evidence is compelling, albeit less primary than I'd have hoped. The writing is clear and impartial. (Though again, a lot of secondary sourcing.) It doesn't seek to answer who is at fault for what is, essentially, an intractable multigenerational conflict (even before we involve proxies). It just seeks to simply answer a question, and in my opinion, having now skimmed (but not deeply contemplated) it, it does.
The balance of evidence suggests Israel is prosecuting a genocide against the people of Palestine. That creates legitimacy for escalating a regional conflict (one among money, I may add, and nowhere close to the deadliest) into an international peacekeeping operation.
Unfortunately, all of this rests on a system of international law that basically all the great powers of this generation (China, then Russia, and now America and India) have undermined.
> international peacekeeping operation
Or just like those international peacekeepers who filmed Hezbollah breach our border, kill soldiers, abduct others? And then when this was discovered, refused to share the unedited video with Israel?
We don't trust the UN. So which international peace keepers do you propose?
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I don’t know! But the point of peacekeepers is the belligerents lose their votes.
> Ooh, can we dismiss all statements from someone who is related to someone who worked for the Israeli government or was in the IDF too?
The phrase "my brother and I against my cousin, my cousin and I against my neighbor, my neighbor and I against the neighboring state, the neighboring state and I against the world" is a paraphrase of an Arabic phrase the nicely summarises the relevant culture. I'll show you a clearer example of why the PA and Hamas are united in the front against Israel. You are aware that Shii Hezbollah and Iran are currently aligned with Suni Hamas against Israel, yes? Do you know what Hezbollah will do to Hamas if they ever overcome Israel? The current war in Gaza will look like a picnic. Go look at what is happening right now in Syria if you are unfamiliar, or ISIS, or Google for any other Shii-Sunni conflict.
In English you have the expression "united we stand, divided we fall". The Arabic expression that I mentioned pretty much encompasses that "united we stand" part, without the self-interest of "divided we fall".