Calls are growing for the UN Security Council to be reformed after the US used its veto power to block a Gaza ceasefire.

Calls are growing for the UN Security Council to be reformed after the US became the only member to use its veto power to block a Gaza ceasefire resolution, a move welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The UN chief says he will keep pushing for peace.

  • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The difference between the IDF and Hamas is that the IDF serves a civilian population that is heavily armed and almost 100% veterans.

    Hamas forcibly rules a civilian population that is unarmed.

    Given Israel actively prevents the people of Gaza from being armed (as is their human right) they are completely wrong to hold Gazans responsible for Hamas, given the Gazans have no power to consent to or reject Hamas’s rule.

    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t disagree at all. I see Palestinians as a completely separate entity. I also see Israeli civilians as a separate entity from the IDF, however. Netanyahu isn’t universally supported. No civilian in this situation is culpable.