@baruch if you actually cared about compassion, you'd have said a single thing mourning the deaths of over 10,000 Palestinian civilians - half of them children - in the last few weeks. No, I'm not missing the point at all.

I was heartbroken after Hamas' awful attack. Nauseous for days. I remember feeling similarly horrified after 9/11. But also like 9/11, my compassion for the lives shattered on 10/7 doesn't in any way justify the war crimes now being committed by their government in their names.

Your refusal to even admit that war crimes are war crimes is the point.

@baruch disgusting.

Since you like quoting international law, go ahead and show me the part where it says "it's not ethnic cleansing if it's in self defense".

Genocide is never necessary.

@baruch your hypocritical and blatantly disingenuous defense of ethnic cleansing is disgusting. Your Orwellian equivalency between "protection" and "ethnic cleansing" is a revolting false dichotomy with no place in the world. Your argument is disgraceful and anti-Jewish.

"Never again" means not by anybody. Not even a little. And especially not by us.

@baruch I did. Like I said, the Responsibility to Protect doesn't say a single word about requiring countries to bomb, invade, ethnically cleanse, or otherwise commit war crimes in the name of protecting their citizens.

What it actually says is that "the international community... has the responsibility to use appropriate DIPLOMATIC, HUMANITARIAN, and other PEACEFUL MEANS to help protect populations from genocide, [etc]".

That's as specific as the law gets about what kinds of actions nations are expected to engage in.

Weird how it doesn't say anything at all about bombing civilians.