Turkey submits official request to join ICJ genocide case against Israel

[moniss]

That is the headline from an 8/7/24 report from Reuters. It is open to debate what the practical effect would be of Turkey making this move beyond the pressure of the PR. However these "diplomatic/political" conflicts have increased of late rather than subsided.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkey-bid-join-icj-genocide-054153717.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

"Israel cancels accreditation of Norwegian diplomats to Palestinian areas" is the headline of a Reuters report dated 8/8/24 and indicates that Israel is fighting back on the diplomatic front and states it has made the move because it feels Norway is being "One sided" on the Palestinian issue. the Norwegian Foreign Minister has said there will be a response. Usually these responses can be things like ordering a few personnel of the party you're mad at to leave the country and it can escalate from there but I would be surprised if it is more than that at this stage.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/israeli-rejection-norwegian-diplomats-palestinian-104603011.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

[bullimiami]

1. I have no problem pursuing war crimes but it's pretty damn hypocritical to not have gone after Russia already.

[moniss]

2. Absolutely and the sad reality for civilian populations

around the world there is nothing more subject to "political will/lack thereof" than having nations live up to enforcement of international humanitarian law regarding other nations. In the case of Russia it should have happened years ago over some of their other "escapades". An inconvenient subject for the US is our own doorstep regarding things like the invasion of Iraq.

[sabbat hunter]

3. How can Trkiye

join an ICJ genocide case against Israel, when it still denies the Armenian genocide it committed, and the Kurdish one still underway?

[moniss]

4. That's the general hypocrisy

of nations around the world. I've mentioned a few times before about the spectacle of watching some nations with plenty of their own dirt on their doorstep out pointing fingers at others.