Blinken denies US has ‘double standard’ when adjudicating alleged human rights abuses in Israel

[u/ObjectiveObserver420]

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/blinken-denies-us-has-double-standard-when-adjudicating-alleged-human-rights-abuses-in-israel/

[u/AgentGrange]

The case of Ukraine is totally different than in Gaza. The Ukrainians are not in any way a legitimate target the way Hamas is in Gaza.

That's funny Blinken, because actually under UN law the invasion of Ukraine is more legitimate as a military action between two sovereign states while the UN ruled that Israel does not have the right to "self defense" against a captive oppressed people with no sovereignty fighting for liberation. It's kinda ugh. Explicitly the opposite of what you said, you ghoul.

Blinken also stresses that “Israel has demonstrated the capacity to look at itself. This is what separates democracies from from other countries — the ability, the willingness, the determination to look at themselves.

Israel, famously a beacon of self awareness, introspection, and commitment to transparency. World renowned for investigating themselves while faithfully reporting the facts. If anyone is open to outside criticism and international scrutiny, it's definitely Israel!

The lies in the service of genocide are just so blatant at this point, I don't know how anyone could think this government is legitimate.

[u/kuncol02 → u/AgentGrange]

Both are as Illegal, both are also probed for ongoing genocide. It's simply a lie that invasion of Ukraine was in any way legal.

Both are war of conquest by colonial empire.

[u/Appropriate-Draft-91 → u/kuncol02]

Yeah, not quite.

By calling the current Ukraine war a colonial conquest you display a stunning lack of awareness of the area's history and demographics.

The justification for Isreal is about a mystical fairy tale telling people that they once lived there, dozens of generations ago, and that they can go there and kill the people who actually lived there for dozens of generations, because the magical fairy told them they to.

While the justification for Russia's conquest is in no way good, and I'd much prefer Putin hadn't done it, Russia's ties to the territory and the people are real. The justification is several leagues above the fairy tale used to justify Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic

[u/kuncol02 → u/Appropriate-Draft-91]

Ukraine was conquered by Soviets and then Ukrainians were genocided. It's you who have no idea what Russians were doing to all nations neighbouring them from very beginning of existence of Russia.

[u/Appropriate-Draft-91 → u/kuncol02]

You have your centuries mixed up.

Russia was a brutal colonial empire (quite unique is that it colonized by land instead of overseas, a model the Prussians later tried to emulate, ironically on Russia).

Israel is a genocidal colonial settler state.

[u/kuncol02 → u/Appropriate-Draft-91]

Russia IS brutal colonial empire. Never stopped being.