Calls are growing for the UN Security Council to be reformed after the US became the only member to use its veto power to block a Gaza ceasefire resolution, a move welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The UN chief says he will keep pushing for peace.

  • @[email protected]
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    1410 months ago

    Russia wants to annex a country. Israel is fighting a terrorist group.

    Isreal has been slowly annexing bits of Palestine for decades. Those terrorists are the latest reaction to that.

    Not that their violence against Israel is a good thing - far from it, but it’s also not surprising.

    • @SCB
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      -1210 months ago

      Isreal has been slowly annexing bits of Palestine for decades.

      They literally haven’t. Gaza’s borders are unchanged.

        • @SCB
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          -1010 months ago

          Israeli settlements are literally built on Israeli land. East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights were won in the Six Day War.

          • @sfgifz
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            610 months ago

            So… If Russia “wins” parts of Ukrainian territory, it’s all valid?

            • @aidan
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              110 months ago

              The 6 Day War was a bit more complicated than a blatant land grab

            • @SCB
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              In a realpolitik sense, yeah probably. That’s why Ukraine needs to win. Nothing is going to happen to Russia if they crush Ukraine underfoot. Do you really believe something is?

              More to the point, though, the Six Day War was a defensive war by Israel in which other countries willfully abdicated territory for Israel’s security purposes. It was not a war of annexation, so the two are completely different things.

          • Flying SquidM
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            210 months ago

            Note these settlements are on the other side of the Israeli border after the 1967 war, making a large percentage of the West Bank de facto Israeli territory. And it continues to shrink.

        • @kerrigan778
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          -1010 months ago

          I’d call them not in Gaza…