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Image is of legal adviser to Israel's foreign ministry Tal Becker and British jurist Malcolm Shaw at the ICJ hearing.


The ICJ case against Israel might not achieve much for the Palestinian cause directly, given that Israeli politicians have explicitly stated that the Hague will not stop them - and I believe them. The Resistance will be what stops them, and they are doing quite well for themselves. Hezbollah has hit highly sensitive and important Israeli military sites over the last couple weeks, and in general persist in several border attacks every day. The battles in Iraq and Syria also continue. Hamas remains largely intact, and is successfully forcing Israeli forces in the northern Gaza Strip to retreat, and other parts of the Gazan Resistance are continuing to battle down in Khan Yunis. And, last but not least, Yemen is firmly dedicated to the blockade, warding off another ship literally minutes before I started writing this paragraph.

What the ICJ is battling over isn't Palestine and Israel - not really - but the legitimacy of international law itself, and to what degree victimized countries can rely on it to solve problems, versus needing to take more militant routes for justice. In a weird sense, it might be an L for Israel either way. If international law sides with Palestine, then when Israel refuses to stop, it will invalidate international law. If international law sides with Israel, then it will invalidate international law. There is no conceivable way for the West to come out of this looking good.

The South African portion detailing Israeli atrocities against Gaza was largely ignored by the western media. They have instead, obviously, decided to focus on the Israeli portion. Their defense appears to amount to "We didn't do it, Hamas did it. And if we did do it, it doesn't matter, because that's just urban warfare for you. Please get this whole thing thrown out on a very dubious technicality so we don't have to advance to the next stage."

From Craig Murray, who has been physically going to the Hague:

It is important to realise this. Israel is hoping to win on their procedural points about existence of dispute, unilateral assurances and jurisdiction. The obvious nonsense they spoke about the damage to homes and infrastructure being caused by Hamas, trucks entering Gaza and casualty figures, was not serious. They did not expect the judges to believe any of this. The procedural points were for the court. The rest was mass propaganda for the media.

...I am sure the judges want to get out of this and they may go for the procedural points. But there is a real problem with Israel’s “no dispute” argument. If accepted, it would mean that a country committing genocide can simply not reply to a challenge, and then legal action will not be possible because no reply means “no dispute”. I hope that absurdity is obvious to the judges. But they may of course wish not to notice it…

What do I think will happen? Some sort of “compromise”. The judges will issue provisional measures different to South Africa’s request, asking Israel to continue to take measures to protect the civilian population, or some such guff. Doubtless the State Department have drafted something like this for President of the court Donoghoe already.

I hope I am wrong. I would hate to give up on international law. One thing I do know for certain. These two days in the Hague were absolutely crucial for deciding if there is any meaning left in notions of international law and human rights. I still believe action by the court could cause the US and UK to back off and provide some measure of relief. For now, let us all pray or wish, each in our way, for the children of Gaza.


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Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
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Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
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English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
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Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful. Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:

Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.


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[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 67 points 9 months ago

“Former” war criminal students assault Palestinians at Columbia U with chemical weapon

But please tell me more about how the fragile Zionists crackers hallucinating about Hamas coming to shit in their pants is a more pressing concern

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[-] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 67 points 9 months ago

If you are not citing sources then you are promoting an information environment that benefits the enemy and its propaganda schemes. If you are citing sources then be mindful of WHAT sources you are citing. There are a whole host of information warfare schemes that involve having "anti-imperialist" content but then sprinkle in bogus news when the time is right. Others are simply opportunists without principles.

Things that are not sources:

-Telegram channels and Twitter accounts that consolidate news but aren't themselves primary sources or official news outlets or citing external links (especially the ones in English)

-Anonymous people online who claim to be from one country or another

-tiktok videos and other video/picture media with no context other context.

-imperialist news media or think tanks associated with NATO, KSA, the zionist entity, etc (if these sources are used then they should be clearly identified as such)

-nebulous claims like "Iranian sources say" without direct links. (Well-run journalism outlets like Al-Mayadeen get to do this. Amateurs on telegram and twitter do not.)

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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 66 points 9 months ago

If you ever want to attack a foreign, sovereign state, just declare them to be terrorists first.

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 66 points 9 months ago

The end is near: https://archive.is/20240115190309/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-zelenskiy-wants-china-join-global-peace-summit-2024-01-15/

Switzerland to host Ukraine peace summit at Zelenskiy's request

Summary

  • Date and venue for summit to be determined
  • Zelenskiy wants China to be involved
  • Russian invasion enters third year next month
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[-] companero@hexbear.net 65 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Washington Post: As Houthis vow to fight on, U.S. prepares for sustained campaign

The Biden administration is crafting plans for a sustained military campaign targeting the Houthis in Yemen after 10 days of strikes failed to halt the group’s attacks on maritime commerce, stoking concern among some officials that an open-ended operation could derail the war-ravaged country’s fragile peace and pull Washington into another unpredictable Middle Eastern conflict.

What is Genocide Joe's deal? Does he really want nothing more than to kill brown people? I genuinely don't see how this strategy can do anything but make things objectively worse.

[-] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 59 points 9 months ago

This motherfucker has gotten the US involved in three wars within three years. Absolutely vile demon.

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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 65 points 9 months ago

Comparing the lemmy.ml and lemmy.world front pages right now is sort of terrifying.

lemmy.ml:

  1. AfD plans to turn Germany into authoritarian state, vice-chancellor warns

  2. US forces strike Houthi sites in Yemen as Biden says allied action hasn't yet stopped ship attacks

  3. North Korea training, providing weapons to Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis

  4. Britain has flown 50 spy missions over Gaza in support of Israel

  5. Infertility: Chemical substances omnipresent in everyday life are among the causes

Reasonable enough, right? Now compare it to lemmy.world:

  1. Washington to Israel: Turn the lights back on in Gaza

  2. NATO admiral warns of potential all-out war with Russia

  3. Netanyahu Says 'From the River to the Sea,' a Phrase Zionists Claim is Genocidal

  4. Putin could attack NATO in '5 to 8 years,' German defense minister warns

  5. Poland is 'Next' After Russia Wins Ukraine War, Putin Ally Says

THREE OUT OF FIVE ARTICLES are just blatant warmongering trying to manifest a future Russia-NATO war. And this is a community that is supposed to be less extreme than Reddit's group of bloodthirsty clowns.

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[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 65 points 9 months ago

Claire Daily calling out butcher biden on the European Parliament, and also calling Von der Leyen Frau Genocide

https://nitter.net/ClareDalyMEP/status/1747323130060697682#m

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[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 65 points 9 months ago
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[-] sempersigh@hexbear.net 64 points 9 months ago

Nytimes brought the needle back for the most inconsequential thing of all time lmao

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[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 64 points 9 months ago
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[-] mushroom@hexbear.net 64 points 9 months ago

apparently nikki haley cheated on her husband while he was in the military

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[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago
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[-] cleoburymortimer@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago

heard that they classified some group in yemen as terrorists? the "houthis"? idk anything about that but i support the brave and heroic Yemeni Armed Forces in all that they do

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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago

All that media posturing and speculation from Reddit libs that Trump was done for because they live in an urban bubble where Trump is despised were proven wrong. Trump won overwhelmingly in Iowa as was expected. He was more than double what DeSantis had.

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/15/1224749221/trump-wins-republican-iowa-caucus-2024

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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago
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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

New slammer JDPON meme

~~I have blueskkky codes if you nerds want them~~ i have no codes now

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[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago

Wasting company time to make this:

Inspired by this post

[-] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen were unrelated to Israel's war with Hamas militants in Gaza.

The UK participated in last week's US-led air strikes across Yemen against Houthi forces in retaliation for months of attacks on Red Sea shipping.

Previously, the Houthis said their attacks targeted Israeli-linked vessels in response to Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza.

Speaking in parliament, Mr Sunak said the UK's "limited" strikes were a direct response to Houthi attacks on international shipping.

"We shouldn't fall for their malign narrative that this is about Israel and Gaza," he said.

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago

Al Jazeera WATCH: Journalist questions bombing of Gaza university - CW video of demolition of civilian building....hamas-base

Israa University in Gaza was demolished by the Israeli army with 315 mines on Wednesday after its forces occupied the campus for more than a month. The dramatic video has been making waves across the internet.

A US journalist got into a tense exchange with US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, questioning why Israel would go to such lengths to destroy civilian infrastructure.

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[-] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units shot down a US occupation MQ9 Reaper drone. -Sabareen News

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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago

Looking closely at China's GDP numbers, they're actually insane. China saw 5.2% net GDP growth on 0.34% CPI and net neutral foreign trade. Retail sales grew +7.2%, infrastructure investment grew +5.9%, manufacturing investment grew +6.5%, and real estate dragged down -9.6%. In every sector that matters, China is blowing growth numbers out of the water.

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[-] Babs@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago

Houthi attacks in Red Sea delay arrival of critical Yad Sarah medical equipment

https://www.timesofisrael.com/houthi-attacks-in-red-sea-delay-arrival-of-critical-yad-sarah-medical-equipment/

Yad Sarah, one of Israel’s largest non-profit charitable groups, warned on Sunday that the disruption of shipping in the Red Sea, caused by assaults by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants, is causing delays in the delivery of critical medical equipment and could lead to severe shortages, as Israel is almost four months into war with the Hamas terror group.

Almost felt a twinge of sympathy, but then

Since the outbreak of the Hamas war, Yad Sarah, one of the country’s largest medical aid volunteer organizations, has already supplied an entire year’s worth of “critical medical and rehabilitation equipment,” to soldiers and civilians, Cohen said.

Get fucked. I hope that your need for emergency supplies increases and is never fulfilled.

The attacks are working.

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago

The IOF continues to desecrate cemeteries in order to steal corpses (CW: desecrated graves): https://nitter.cz/m7mdkurd/status/1747566710838677540

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[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago
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[-] puff@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago

What happened to the fucking website

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[-] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago

The judge called the men "hapless" petty criminals who were "easily manipulated" by the government in a sting operation, and said the case was "notorious".

The four men were convicted of terrorism charges in 2010 and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Friday's order by the judge asked for Cromitie's sentence to be cut to time served plus 90 days. It did not reverse the conviction.

Judge McMahon said that Cromitie was a small-time "grifter" who was broke and unemployed when he was enlisted in the FBI-driven plot and provided fake bombs to plant in exchange for $250,000 in the "jihadist mission."

Cromitie enlisted the other three men to serve as lookouts, according to the judge.

"The three men were recruited so that Cromitie could conspire with someone," the judge said.

"The real lead conspirator was the United States. The FBI invented the conspiracy; identified the targets; manufactured the ordnance."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-21/us-judge-orders-release-of-man-in-newburgh-four-terror-sting/103372702

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[-] 1000mH@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Women and Minorities Bear the Brunt of Medical Misdiagnosis | naked capitalism

In a study published Jan. 8 in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers found that nearly 1 in 4 hospital patients who died or were transferred to intensive care had experienced a diagnostic error. Nearly 18% of misdiagnosed patients were harmed or died.

In all, an estimated 795,000 patients a year die or are permanently disabled because of misdiagnosis, according to a study published in July in the BMJ Quality & Safety periodical.

Women and racial and ethnic minorities are 20% to 30% more likely than white men to experience a misdiagnosis, said David Newman-Toker, a professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the lead author of the BMJ study. “That’s significant and inexcusable,” he said.

Researchers call misdiagnosis an urgent public health problem. The study found that rates of misdiagnosis range from 1.5% of heart attacks to 17.5% of strokes and 22.5% of lung cancers.

Maternal mortality for Black mothers has increased dramatically in recent years. The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate among developed countries. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, non-Hispanic Black mothers are 2.6 times as likely to die as non-Hispanic white moms. More than half of these deaths take place within a year after delivery.

Research shows that Black women with childbirth-related heart failure are typically diagnosed later than white women, said Jennifer Lewey, co-director of the pregnancy and heart disease program at Penn Medicine. That can allow patients to further deteriorate, making Black women less likely to fully recover and more likely to suffer from weakened hearts for the rest of their lives.

Racial and gender disparities are widespread.

Women and minority patients suffering from heart attacks are more likely than others to be discharged without diagnosis or treatment.

Black people with depression are more likely than others to be misdiagnosed with schizophrenia.

Minorities are less likely than whites to be diagnosed early with dementia, depriving them of the opportunities to receive treatments that work best in the early stages of the disease.

Misdiagnosis isn’t new. Doctors have used autopsy studies to estimate the percentage of patients who died with undiagnosed diseases for more than a century. Although those studies show some improvement over time, life-threatening mistakes remain all too common, despite an array of sophisticated diagnostic tools, said Hardeep Singh, a professor at Baylor College of Medicine who studies ways to improve diagnosis.

“The vast majority of diagnoses can be made by getting to know the patient’s story really well, asking follow-up questions, examining the patient, and ordering basic tests,” said Singh, who is also a researcher at Houston’s Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center. When talking to people who’ve been misdiagnosed, “one of the things we hear over and over is, ‘The doctor didn’t listen to me.’”

Racial disparities in misdiagnosis are sometimes explained by noting that minority patients are less likely to be insuredthan white patients and often lack access to high-quality hospitals. But the picture is more complicated, said Monika Goyal, an emergency physician at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., who has documented racial bias in children’s health care.

In a 2020 study, Goyal and her colleagues found that Black kids with appendicitis were less likely than their white peers to be correctly diagnosed, even when both groups of patients visited the same hospital.

Demanding schedules, which prevent doctors from spending as much time with patients as they’d like, can contribute to diagnostic errors, said Karen Lutfey Spencer, a professor of health and behavioral sciences at the University of Colorado-Denver. “Doctors are more likely to make biased decisions when they are busy and overworked,” Spencer said. “There are some really smart, well-intentioned providers who are getting chewed up in a system that’s very unforgiving.”

Doctors make better treatment decisions when they’re more confident of a diagnosis, Spencer said.

In an experiment, researchers asked doctors to view videos of actors pretending to be patients with heart disease or depression, make a diagnosis, and recommend follow-up actions. Doctors felt far more certain diagnosing white men than Black patients or younger women.

“If they were less certain, they were less likely to take action, such as ordering tests,” Spencer said. “If they were less certain, they might just wait to prescribe treatment.”

It’s easy to see why doctors are more confident when diagnosing white men, Spencer said. For more than a century, medical textbooks have illustrated diseases with stereotypical images of white men. Only 4.5% of images in general medical textbooks feature patients with dark skin.

That may help explain why patients with darker complexions are less likely to receive a timely diagnosis with conditions that affect the skin, from cancer to Lyme disease, which causes a red or pink rash in the earliest stage of infection. Black patients with Lyme disease are more likely to be diagnosed with more advanced disease, which can cause arthritis and damage the heart. Black people with melanoma are about three times as likely as whites to die within five years.

The covid-19 pandemic helped raise awareness that pulse oximeters — the fingertip devices used to measure a patient’s pulse and oxygen levelsare less accurate for people with dark skin. The devices work by shining light through the skin; their failures have delayed critical care for many Black patients.

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[-] 420stalin69@hexbear.net 59 points 9 months ago

Apparently there is a plan to install solar on the pentagon and the MIC is frothing about the possibility of the solar panels to be bugged.

The buy American regulations would need to be waived to install the solar, so there are demands to use American solar panels instead. To build American solar panels, the buy American regulations would also need to be waived because America doesn’t make the grades of silicon required and can’t source enough lithium.

China should just ban the export of lithium and silicon and instawin the chip war.

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