That is a very misleading headline. Carpet bombing over 30.000 civilians to death is not self defense, not even close to it.
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Germany abstaining is actually a big deal.
The defense of Israel is one of our "Reason of State" and not voting in favour of Israel is a serious signal that politicians are fed up with Netanyahus bullshit.
Germany often abstained in critical UN votes regarding Israel and Palestine. E.g. here or here.
And german "intellectuals" are already in the "it is not binding" mode... Germanies political and media class is lost, completly detached from the constituency, who is against the genocide by a large margin.
Israel and Kyle Rittenhouse can agree on one thing, it's totally cool to kill people and then pretend you were defending yourself
Please yankee, don't make everything happening in the world about you
I'm not trying to make it about me, I'm trying to say that what Israel was doing was not self-defense
What a shitty title and crappy biased article. That's not what the resolution was about.
Here's the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/19/un-resolution-israel-palestinian-territory-countries-vote/
U.N. General Assembly demands Israel end occupation of Palestinian territory The nonbinding resolution says Israel must end its “unlawful presence” within a year, pull out military forces, halt settlement expansion and evacuate settlers.
Israel is illegally occupying Palestine. The violence they commit is the furthest possible thing from self defense.
They never had that right to begin with. A foreign military force has no right to self defense from the occupied people.
It's not self defense when they're the ones attacking.
Is this just symbolic? Does it levy any penalties for not complying?
The resolution has declaratory power only but provides international backing to those countries that want to take additional steps against Israel.
Weird that the comments and the top level post are calling out the countries which abstained but apperently no one cares about the 'against' votes.
I think it may be due to the "against" votes coming from the obvious places (Israel, USA) and a bunch of tiny places most people couldn't point in a map.
The "curious" ones for me are Panama and Argentina. Curious as in I wonder what their statements to vote against would be
Argentina is an obvious one. Milei is a giant US bootlicker.
Ashamed that my country abstained here
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