• frozenspinach@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    Aren’t the ICJ, ICC and UNSC institutions of international law? And haven’t they ruled over and over again that the settlements, occupations, blockades, and blocking of humanitarian aid to Palestine have been violations of international law?

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      The international courts are courts in name only. They don’t have power because it is by design and thus any rulings are non-binding. The only real power there is is the UNSC, and it is extremely corrupt as everyone knows.

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    8 hours ago

    Rule number 1 of international law is that it is not a set of laws, but a set of agreements that don’t have the power of law.

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      but a set of agreements that don’t have the power of law.

      Rule of law is about having a culture of respect for law as a legitimate product of democratic institutions. If law is only real to you because it’s “real” in the sense of boots, batons and assault rifles, the ‘power’ you are interested in is not the power of law.

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    14 hours ago

    Needs more “trump is all your fault because you wanted representation in government” gaslighting IMO

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    Oh, you say genocide and use of starvation as a weapon of war is against international law too? WE CANNOT HAVE THE SOVEREIGNTY OF ISRAEL QUESTIONED.