Posted on 12/23/2023 10:06:18 AM PST by SunkenCiv
A United Nations official said in an interview last week that Palestinians who kill Israeli soldiers are not guilty of crimes because such killings are in line with their "right to resist," in the latest controversial comments by the anti-Israel official.
"If the Palestinians target civilian objects, they commit war crimes," said Francesca Albanese, U.N. special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, in an interview on the podcast Makdisi Street. "If they target military objects, they do not commit war crimes—they are in line with acts of resistance."
Albanese went on to criticize "Western media" outlets that have condemned "every Palestinian action," including attacks on soldiers.
"The killing of soldiers—it's, I mean, frankly, it's a tragedy, but it's not a crime," Albanese said. "Instead, very often, when Palestinians manage to attack soldiers, they are portrayed as terrorists. And this is a misunderstanding that needs to be addressed."
...Albanese criticized Hamas's Oct. 7 attack because the terrorist fighters targeted Israeli civilians and took hostages. She said, however, that "an illegal act of the resistance doesn't delegitimize the resistance itself."
... Last month, Albanese said Hamas is "entitled to embrace resistance" and argued that, under international law, Israel has no right to self-defense against the terrorist group.
She denounced calls this month for Hamas to release its hostages, calling it an "unacceptable" act of "justifying and deflecting the attention from the atrocities committed by the Israeli army in Gaza."
...Albanese last year distanced herself from a 2014 Facebook post in which she said the United States is "subjugated by the Jewish lobby."
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Yeah, don't see that happening any time in the near future.
First, war is not a crime.
Second, there was a cease fire in place between Hamas and Israel that was violated by Hamas on Oct 7th. So the path of war is what Hamas chose. Now is not the time for half measures. You ask how many more - the answer is simple. As many as it takes to keep Hamas from attacking and killing Israelis.
I once thought that Trump was over-reacting over Tick Tok.
Most of the world from the richest to the poorest nations use Tik Tok
What about an American hating ATF?
LOL! You are SO right (unfortunately)!
The death roll is according to Hamas’s health bureau. First, they do not differentiate between terrorists killed and civilians; second, they aren’t reliable.
Third, the destruction by the IDF is for the purpose of eradicating the tunnels Hamas spent its foreign aid (the part not kept by the leaders, 3 of whom have amassed $11 billion while living in luxury thousands of miles away in Qatar).
How the U.S. could continue to fund and participate in this cesspool of poison is a disgrace.
Related to the current Aussie PM?
Enjoy your family while you can and be very careful traveling in areas that Mossad or any of its various assassination squads are visiting.
I hear ya, and I used to promote that also.
The reality is, we can’t give up our U.N. Veto.
If we think this world is bad now...
We are the UN. We fund it, we are their military, we are their support structure. But we do not run it. Come to think of it, much like NATO.
Pull out and tell them they have sixty days to vacate the building and the whole thing collapses.
Good point. The veto matters.
But maybe cut their funding by a LOT? (I think we pay for most of it.)
No, we can’t. China would love nothing more than to see the
U.S. vacate the U.N., and then take over as the pseudo
leader of the enterprise.
Israel and the U.S. would have efforts enacted against them
within weeks. We would not be able to stop full on conflict.
I loathe the place as well, but we cannot just let it run
loose.
Right now the U.N. would love nothing more than to run
sanctions against Israel. They only thing stopping that
is the U.S.
You agree with that don’t you?
I’d play a very tough game with them. When it comes to
funding, I’d drag my feet, but not so much so that we could
be seen as breaking our obligations, which could lead to
action against us.
This world is teetering right now.
I’m not convinced it is teetering as much as some folks
think though.
The U.S. is incredibly formidable.
Taiwan has been out of the UN for some time now.
China is brown-nosing it around the planet looking for some
kind of respect, or the trappings of it.
The U.N. would be a crow jewel.
Taiwan is in a tight spot, but compared to Israel it doesn’t
have nation after nation after its hide.
There aren’t U.N. sanction requests, or desires against it
that I know of.
Middle-Eastern players are always filing some form of
action against Israel. The moment Hamas attacked, I’m
sure there were cease-fire papers on the floor of the
Assembly.
Right now the U.S. is of the mind that Israel is acting
too brutal toward Hamas. They are all convinced Israel is
too inhumane. Israel cannot stop the violence if the
U.N. steps in and sanctions it every time the international
community goes nuts.
There are times when the U.N. goes against other Western
Concerns too.
When Trump gets back in, the U.N. would jump into our
border issues. We cannot allow that, or even give them
the hint we would allow it.
The UN is a paper tiger. The only reason anyone listens to it at all is because it has the might of the US military behind it. For all the babble about the "Inter-nation-al Co-mun-it-tee" it is the US and to a lesser degree the UK military that gets things done. And if we left several other countries would as well.
Tell 'em to sod off and we renounce any treaties that go with it.
At that point what are they going to do. Write us a stern letter?
I believe I read that he ordered that the prisoners be injected in the bladder with acid. Also beaten with clubs and put into ice-baths. Who am I?
Well said. Agree on all counts.
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