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I don’t really understand these arguments where ‘nobody is condemning Israeli actions’ when there are clearly lots of people condemning Israeli actions (me included).
But I don’t think that calling for the obliteration of Israel is justified, and I think that calling for its obliteration weakens public support for the Palestinians’ cause. As in the Northern Ireland example, peace is probably only possible when everyone lets go of their desire to revise history and deals with the world as it currently is. (By that I don’t mean accepting the settlers’ attempts to annex even more Palestinian territory, but I do mean accepting that the state of Israel exists).
As for the lack of enforcement of international law - well, the lack of a central authority means that there are only consequences for breaching international law if other countries choose to enforce them, and they often don’t for political reasons.
The UN is not a central authority - it’s more like a co-op that everyone is a part of but nobody really gets expelled from, regardless of how often they’re censured by the General Assembly (which has no real weight in international law).
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I read, (did I post here?) that the number of UN sanctions against Israel in 2022 exceeded against all other UN sanctions that year.
If you look at the list of UN sanctions against Israel and how they were enforced well lack of enforcement.
Read something in the book, about Jews in the ghettos going out attacking Germans. The line that stuck (as I think I have read it in other guerilla/ freedom fighter books) was the people consider themselves dead, their life has no worth as they could die tomorrow so they could kill or be killed to get food, needed supplies. Almost ilke the idea of freedom and peace had gone. No more humanity, you treat people as sub human and they no longer have their humanity so not left to lose. Today's actions by isreal don't get a mention but people chanting at a march do.
You can write all the articles in the world, when no one is condemning you actions as they become more and more brutal. You get away with it and then feel like you have a right to do this.
Isreals actions have fitted the definition of terrorism (the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims) for longer than I have been alive yet they are allowed to continue.