r/InternationalNews • u/ObjectiveObserver420 South Africa • Apr 24 '24

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

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/blinken-denies-us-has-double-standard-when-adjudicating-alleged-human-rights-abuses-in-israel/
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u/Appropriate-Draft-91 Apr 24 '24

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

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u/AnAlpacaIsJudgingYou Apr 24 '24

You mean after the Soviet Union conquered Ukraine and started a genocide?

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u/Appropriate-Draft-91 Apr 24 '24

Are you referring to reconquering Ukraine in 1943/44, or are you terribly confused?

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u/AnAlpacaIsJudgingYou Apr 25 '24

Talking about the entirety of Russel-Ukrainian relations