QuoteWhat happens if Israel is charged with Genocide by the ICJ

As long as the Palestinians die, I don't think a Zionist will care what you call them.  Charging Israel with genocide will only remind Zionists that jews are oppressed, and have been persecuted for 2000 years.  They will double down on their slaughter because you just confirmed their narrative of being the chosen ones.  And they are the chosen ones.  How long will it be before there is a Palestinian Holocaust Museum in Washington DC.  I'll put my money on 650 million years.

We have learned here right here in the Diner that if you think you are going to convince someone peak oil was real, and that the world will go to shit if we maintain business as usual, bombarding people with facts won't work.  Facts have the exact opposite effect, you wind up scaring people and they decide YOU are crazy, move on, and forget about you.

It would truly suck to be a Palestinian.  Israel is a modern country, and the hegemony of wealth demands Palestinian must die.

The ONLY thing that can stop the slaughter is to embargo Israel and let nothing in and out of the country until the death stops.  That is not going to happen.  For that to happen America would have to have a collective morality that it no longer has.  If it ever did.

And the truth is, it never did.

The self-examination necessary to oppose what Israel is doing is requires too much mental anguish.  Out of sight and out of mind will prevail. 

Knarf, you make the mistake of thinking everyone is a good as you are.  It is an easy thing to do.  Some of us for brief periods of time will lift ourselves above animal instinct and use reason, logic and, humanity to arrive at conclusions.  Even if the conclusions logic gives are a bit uncomfortable from a personal point of view.  You have the ability to think this way, and you expect everyone else to have the same quality of your thought.

'Save as many as you can'  means everyone who can be saved should be saved.  Even people that are not like us.  As K-Dog i say a similar thing when I say 'All dogs eat'.

But the rules of tribalism are not consistent with all dogs eat or save as many as you can.  The rules of tribalism require 'others' must die.  Tribalism is the gut response, and a brain must master the gut.  Not all people can master their gut.  Many people can only follow others.  They do not care about the quality of their leaders, only that they have a leader to tell them what to do.  They are thought pirates because they have none of their own.

I wish it were not so.  But how many people take the mental leap to say we are all of the same tribe?  Not so many.  Had I never met someone with a spark of enlightenment in their eye would I?  We are of the same tribe is an original thought.