Craig Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official. He left the UN in October of 2023, penning a widely read letter that warned of genocide in Gaza, criticized the international response and called for a new approach to Palestine and Israel based on equality, human rights and international law.
Meanwhile in official capacity, you’re not allowed to say “Palestine has a right to exist” or “Palestine has a right to defend itself” without facing severe punishment. Know the work rules.
We already have a Jewish state, it’s called New Jersey.
There is no justification.
I thought that was New York? New Jersey is where you find the larping ‘Italians’
I would be willing to accept the totality of Long Island on behalf of the Jewish peoples in exchange for our claims to New Jersey.
We can even call it Jew York if the Eyetalians would prefer.
For real. “Nazi Germany” didn’t have a right to exist either.
The US made sure they took over Europe, though.
I get it. I do feel like framing the issue this way may have some merit with libs. Maybe better: did Rhodesia have a right to exist?
No countries should exist at all.
Once again, point to el comandante. As i know, the only one from our time who supported a planet without borders as a possibility
Sure, but for some “countries”, the need to not exist is more pressing than for others.
“All countries equally shouldn’t exist, but some countries shouldn’t equally exist more than others” (Jor Jor Well)
The PRC has the Mandate of Heaven. Is your country ordained by spacetime and not just a book?
didn’t think so.
Idk I know it isn’t meant this way but it feels like an “all lives matter” framing.
“Israel shouldn’t exist” “No country should exist”
No, Israel specifically shouldn’t exist.
And also, “no country should exist” is a weird thing to say in a world where countries exist to defend against colonialism. Cuba is a country and it has far more right to exist than the genocidal settler-colonial project of iϟϟntreal
It’s a very common stance among communists, but that doesn’t have much bearing on the present conversation.
i don’t vote, so it means little to me, but i am surprised that there isn’t a craven, cynical, power-hungry young dem flunkie who hasn’t started banking their bona fides on cutting ties with israel completely as their lane to the presidential nomination, whether they have the intention to follow through or not.
no “aid to payments” talk. no “two state solution” bullshit. just straight up, the “juice isn’t worth the squeeze,” “what’s in it for me?” cynical self-interest. it’s sitting right there and is, when you see how chickenshit left-lib pols like ro khanna are, wide fucking open. maybe the dem apparatchiks lack an ambition for power and are happy bathing in their consulting money, or maybe they know the heart attack gun would be waiting for them, or maybe the unique blend of bright enough to see the path precludes being dumb enough to try. still, i’m a little surprised.
The funny part is we see multiple Republicans see this lame is wide open and have been using that avenue to set up what may be an eventual run, most notably Tucker Carlson. And yet the Democrats don’t have the spine to do the same for some reason.
