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AloeVera

(2,058 posts)
5. If only we were as quick to defund Israel's war machine.
Wed Feb 7, 2024, 01:29 PM
Feb 2024

We have highly credible evidence, not merely allegations, of war crimes. Starvation as a tool of war as just one example. Collective punishment. Wanton destruction of civilian infrastructure. On and on. Not to mention the possibility, as the ICJ has acknowledged, of genocide.

But no. Instead let's defund the sole agency capable of actually delivering the massive and immediate aid the ICJ has ordered. An effective if not diabolical way of circumventing that very order.

Based on allegations without solid evidence that are somehow deemed "highly, highly credible".

Let me just state that EVEN IF every allegation turns out to be true, it would not justify the destruction of the entire agency and the collective punishment of 6 million people - two + million of whom are literally starving - based on the actions of 12. If that's the standard we hold, the IDF should be "defunded" and disbanded immediately.


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