Opposition motions calling for a range of sanctions against Israel were voted down in the Dail parliament on Wednesday.

Opposition motions calling for a range of economic and diplomatic sanctions, including the expulsion of Israel’s ambassador in Dublin Dana Erlich, were defeated in the Dail on Wednesday evening.

Proposals for Ireland to refer Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) were also voted down.

While the Government did not expel Russia’s ambassador after the invasion of Ukraine, it did back EU sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s regime and also referred its actions to the ICC.

  • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.deEnglish
    72·
    1 year ago

    “evil side” is both ridiciously under complex and unhelpful in regards to most geopolitical conflicts and in particular in the case of Israel and Palestine.

    But if you want to think of good and evil, the Palestinians did not deny food, water, medicine, electricity, fuel and communications to more than two million people, while directly killing ten times as many people as the other side did.

      • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.deEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        So it doesnt matter how many innocent people you kill, but how many you say you want to kill?

        Also how the fuck do you end up with saying all more than two million people in Gaza are evil and deserve to get killed with impu ity because of the actions of a group that has about 20.000-25.000 members?

        That is textbook definition of collective punishment and a typical war crime.

          • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.deEnglish
            42·
            1 year ago

            collateral damage isnt legal by default. That would also be a get out of jail free card then, since all you need is the intend to hit one military target. collateral damage need to be proportional to the military target. and that it isnt here

              • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.deEnglish
                31·
                1 year ago

                . There’s thousands of terrorists among the people killed by the IDF.

                Says the IDF. The same IDF that murders journalists while they wear press vests.

                . You simply can’t blame the side that is forced to fire upon these multi-use targets. Otherwise you’d be rewarding a war crime.

                With the same logic you couldnt blame Hamas for shootingtheir rokets like this, because they cant build GPS guided ones.

                Of course i can blame and every human rights organisation as well as the UN and experts on international law are doing so

                  • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.deEnglish
                    21·
                    1 year ago

                    The IDF spokesman said in the beginning of the offense, that the emphasis is on “damage not accuracy”. They are fully admitting to indiscriminate bombing of Gaza. It is ridicilous to try and paint them as the good guys fighting the bad guys.