• icelimit@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Are the flotilla recognised as legal humanitarian aid providers? I understand from other threads that Israel is legally required to allow humanitarian aid through. I assume here this would mean recognized humanitarian aid. Else it would be akin to just random people trying to run a blockade without a legally recognized reason, which would not put the IDF in the ‘legal’ wrong.

    Their subsequent treatment of the flotilla and it’s crew is something else to discuss of course

    I don’t even know if there’s such a thing as ‘legal humanitarian aid’ as opposed to an ‘illegal’ one.

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      “Legal” who is enforcing these international laws that we can all see Israel breaking? Think about this situation as how colonialist America legally took over all of the Native American land and exterminated them “legally”. It is the same story. Meanwhile Israeli settlers enjoy free universal healthcare and schooling the United States funds.

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        A bit of a tangent but just today I watched a short about the history of what British colonialist did to the Hijra in India.

        Basically they went over there and went “more than two genders? THAT’S ILLEGAL.”

        Yet nowadays we have transphobes always reciting how it’s somehow a woke new thing to not have the sexual sensibilities of a Victorian British person.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_in_India#Colonial-era

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          It’s just so weird to give a fuck about how other people choose to live their lives with a literal child molester and human trafficker in the White House, a protected British royal child molester and a rapist on the Supreme Court. It’s really sick. Just let peaceful people exist in their own way. The gender role structure of how people should act and feel is all based on colonialist pseudoscience.