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The UN **caused** the problem, while I expect them to be responsible for fixing it in reality they wont.
@freemo @freepeoplesfreepress @kravietz If international law was violated, it should be up to an international governing body to bring down the punishment.
Agreed, which is why the fact that Israel has been called to international court multiple times on war crimes, human rights violations, and terrorism is so damning. More so since they refuse to defend themselves in court.
So in that regard I wish the UN would act.
But they wont because there is no international law, there is no enforcement, they cant act, they arent a government. It is up to the individual countries to choose to act or not when the UN decrees a thing.
@freemo @freepeoplesfreepress @kravietz
> It is up to the individual countries to choose to act or not when the UN decrees a thing.
I disagree, although I have already explained why.
I am not sure you did explain it... in fact im rather confused how you can disagree at all.. like they dont even pass laws or decrees, they talk, and then some small set (or large) number of countries may sign a thing.There are no rules on votes needed or anything like that that would even resemble a law. When they vote it is basically "who wants to sign this thing" and sometimes the condition for signing may be a threshold number of votes, but its decided on a per-discussion basis and non-signing countries are never obligated, explicitly so.
Also its very od you support international law and are ont he side of ISrael, one of the biggest violators.
Hell the UN just ordered a ceasefire with 2/3 vote on october 17 due to both sides attackign civilians and ISraels response was to have a tantrum about the UN and then ban any UN representatives from ever entering ISrael.
Not to mention their history of attrocities they refuse to go to court for.
@freemo @freepeoplesfreepress @kravietz Well to be fair if I ran #Israel and this point and the #UN had ordered a ceasefire, I'd ignore them too ๐
I dont mind them ignoring the UN. I do mind them not presenting their case in international court far more so
@freemo @freepeoplesfreepress @kravietz On a more serious note I agree to some extent. If I'm running #Israel, a main goal is to survive. However, the rule of law must also be followed.
If decrees such as a ceasefire must be violated in order to destroy #Hamas, so be it, but if the state will do the crime, it must also be willing to do the time if it hopes to deserve any benefits from being under the jurisdiction of a body such as the #UN. So you're right in that they should be appearing in front of #UN councils when accused of war crimes, and I'd submit that after they beat #Hamas, #Israel should be answering for everything they've done to do so (I believe this is ground we have tread before).