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Joe Biden Condemns International Criminal Court Prosecutor’s Pursuit Of Arrest Warrant Against Israeli Leaders: “What’s Happening Is Not Genocide” (deadline.com)

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[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

A country lead by an autocratic, right-wing, dubiously elected leader sees a land that he doesn't consider a country (and actually considers it part of his country) shoot rockets at him. He rallies his people to war and starts indiscriminately bombing civilians in an effort to "demilitarize" the land and rid it of it's evil leadership. Meanwhile, another foreign land keeps supplying it with missiles and the ICC is looking to arrest the right-wing leader for his killing of civilians.

In one case, that leader killed 10,000 civilians and "arrested" (kidnapped) 2,000 more. Biden is opposed to this.

In the other case 35,000 civilians were killed and 10,000 more were "arrested" (kidnapped). Biden is ok with this.

[-] 3volver@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

If we get another 4 years of Trump, at least we'll know why. The system just needs less people to vote for Trump to win. If we get another 4 years of Trump it's going to be Biden's fault, not mine.

[-] NoLifeGaming@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Genocide Joe wouldn't want to incriminate himself

[-] MonkRome@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Getting caught up with semantics arguments seems like a waste of energy. Because, genocide or not, for many people impacted by any war with disproportionate power imbalance, it sure as fuck is as horrific as a genocide regardless of how one defines it. (I'm not necessarily criticizing the use of the word by some, I just think many activists get bogged down in defending the use word rather than addressing the horror.)

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