UN says so-called Israel may be committing a war crime
Just call it a war crime already
Hiii, I folded laundry today and I’m really proud of myself. Today I’m sharing my feelings on the United Nations saying so-called Israel starving Palestinians may be a war crime. Onto the news…
News that made me say let’s get real
The United Nations said so-called Israel starving Palestinians in Gaza may be a war crime of deliberate starvation. I had to pull out my thesaurus and double check whether “may” was synonymous to “definitely”, “for sure”, “absolutely”! It’s not, so “may” is the wrong word to use for this situation. “May” is what you use to inquire about whether Trump’s hair is real. Trump’s hair may be real? “May” is not what you use to describe what the occupying Israeli government is doing to Gaza.
What the so-called Israel is doing to Palestinians is absolutely a crime in every single category of crime. It’s a war crime. It’s a crime against humanity. It’s a crime against brunch. It’s a crime against anything anyone believes unless you believe in committing genocide, in which case your beliefs don’t matter.
It is really frustrating watching an international organization that supposedly cares about human rights refusing to definitively call out Israel for its crimes. No, I’m not expecting the United Nations to send a text to Netanyahu stating can you please stop starving people, you genocidal monster. Though I think they should. I am at least expecting them to say yes, Israel is committing a war crime. If you can’t say that starving people to death so you can steal their land is a war crime, what are you doing? At this point it seems like flat earthers are more in touch with reality than the United Nations.
Only someone who is completely out of touch would see the videos we’ve seen and say maybe this is a war crime. Even if the United Nations doesn’t believe in collecting evidence through doom scrolling, there is evidence from their BFF, the World Bank, that says, “half the population of the Gaza Strip is at imminent risk of famine”. Famine caused by Israel treating aid trucks like people who are trying to get into an exclusive night club.
The UN secretary general has said that so-called Israel needs to immediately let aid into Gaza before it’s too late. So why say it “may” be a war crime? I know it’s because there hasn’t been a trial blah blah blah, but we are past all that. At some point can’t we just say fuck the made up bullshit and get real. I know getting real is not in the United Nations’ vocabulary because they would have to rename themselves the United Nations for Maintaining Colonialism.
I’m just tired of living in a world where institutions hide behind institutional procedures to protect the powerful. Someone with a tight fitted suit wakes up every morning, goes to their job, and refuses to call a thing a thing because the suit is sucking up some of their soul. The suit tells them yes, I know what you see with your eyes. However, if we went around calling out world leaders for being genocidal monsters based on what we see, then we will have to find them all guilty of every crime.
That’s it for the news but don’t go yet
If you want to learn more about the lives of Palestinians being displaced by the genocide in Gaza, head on over to We Are Not Numbers.
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