The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi
www.theguardian.com
The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

Israel’s war in Gaza is chipping away at so much of what we – in the United States but also internationally – had agreed upon as acceptable, from the rules governing our freedom of speech to the very laws of armed conflict. It seems no exaggeration to say that the foundation of the international order of the last 77 years is threatened by this change in the obligations governing our legal and political responsibilities to each other.

      • vga@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        83·
        6 months ago

        It’s actually China and Russia who’s funding them currently.

        • rumimevlevi@lemmings.worldEnglish
          102·
          6 months ago

          United snakes hold the crown of the number of countries bombed by them (30 countries) and the number of coups (dozens).

          • Cold War regime change attempts (64 covert, 6 overt, 1947–1989):\

          • Global interventions, including coups and election interference (81 interventions in elections, 64 covert and 6 overt regime change attempts):\

          • List and discussion of US-backed coups in Latin America, Middle East, Africa, and Asia:\

          • General overview of US foreign interventions, including nearly 400 military interventions and examples of coups:\

          • Washington Post summary of academic research on 72 US attempts to change foreign governments during the Cold War:\

          • sudo@programming.devEnglish
            72·
            6 months ago

            The UAE is very much doing its own thing in Sudan. The world is becoming multipolar and the UAE is going to be one of the smaller poles.

        • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          51·
          6 months ago

          China and Russia are funding the anti “resistance“. It’s just a proxy war. Same exact thing the Afghanistan war was about

      • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        45·
        6 months ago

        You’re beyond saving. You cannot even recognize why it matters if you’re participating in a genocide or not. A genocide is already happening, why not make a buck off of it? In a past life, you worked at IBM. There you sold computers to the Nazis to help them tabulate the Holocaust.