The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi
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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
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    5 hours ago

    If we consider UN as being the main arbitrator on who gets to launch a war, then to mention a few instances…

    1950: North Korea illegally attacks South Korea.

    1956: Soviet Union illegally invades Hungary.

    1956: Israel / France / UK illegally invade Egypt. All invaders withdraw after UN condemnation and international pressure.

    1964: USA illegally escalates Vietnam War.

    1967: Israel launches the Six-Day War, illegality debated.

    1968: Soviet Union illegally invades Czechoslovakia.

    1973: Egypt and Syria attack Israel.

    1974: Turkey illegally invades Cyprus.

    1978: Vietnam illegally invades Cambodia.

    1979: Soviet Union illegally invades Afghanistan.

    1982: Israel illegally invades Libanon.

    1983: USA illegally invades Grenada.

    1989: USA illegally invades Panama.

    1990: Iraq illegally invades Kuwait. Got their ass kicked though so that worked out fine.

    1999: NATO illegally bombs Yugoslavia.

    2003: US and UK illegally invade Iraq.

    2008: Russia illegally invades Georgia.

    2014: Russia illegally invades and annexes Crimea.

    2015: Saudi-Arabia illegally invades Yemen.

    2022: Russia illegally invades Ukraine.

    I probably forgot a few. No ill meaning meant, just missing knowledge.