THE HAGUE, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The world's biggest academic association of genocide scholars has passed a resolution saying the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
Eighty-six percent of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution declaring Israel’s "policies and actions in Gaza" had met the legal definition set out in Article II of the 1948 UN convention on genocide.
¿En serio hay analistas que creen honestamente que los que cometen crímenes de guerra en Gaza de una magnitud que no veíamos desde los cuarenta bombardean Siria “por cuestiones humanitarias”?
Looking back at this useless war, a few takeaways:
(1) There is no evidence that Iran's nuclear program has been decisively crippled. It may have suffered great damage, but nothing guarantees that Iran won't resume it—nothing short of a negotiated settlement;
(2) Iran now has an incentive to do what it has not done for over two decades, namely accelerate its development of a nuclear weapon, since the post-conflict phase, and the general distaste for more war among the Americans, buys it time to do so;
(3) Israel may have destroyed many buildings and killed many officials in Iran, but in the bigger picture this was meaningless. Individuals can be replaced and buildings rebuilt. Israeli operations by the end of the fighting with Iran reminded me of the operations in Lebanon near the end of the 2006 war, where there no longer appeared to be any strategy guiding them;
(4) Israel was unable to impose a balance of firepower that affirmed a decisive advantage. On the contrary, the major destruction in Israel by Iranian missiles, regardless of the relatively low casualty count, was quite shocking in light of what Israel faced in the past;
(5) Netanyahu's early victory cries were premature, and it became fairly evident by the second week of the conflict that he needed the U.S. to bail him out of a war of attrition Israel was incapable of engaging in. The U.S. did so, but in a limited attack that surely fell short of Israeli hopes and expectations;
(6) For those of us concerned with the future of Iranian proxies and allies in the region, this will be spun as an Iranian victory. I anticipate that Hezbollah will be far more resistant to disarmament than it already is today, which is to say that we will see more unilateral Israeli efforts to hit the party in Lebanon, while the Lebanese state erodes credibility.
(7) Finally, the ambiguous outcome of this war only reaffirms how hegemony by any one party is an illusion, underlining the need by all parties to try to put in place a regional architecture that stabilizes the region. This would encompass nuclear weapons, deconfliction institutions, proxy militias, maritime passages, and other sources of regional tension.
“Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you. […] There is not a single place built in this country that did not have an Arab population”
- Moshe Dayan, former Israeli Defense Minister
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Finalmente el primer ministro designado del #Líbano Nawaf Salam logró formar gobierno en un gabinete compuesto por 24 ministros, principalmente empresarios y académicos sin compromisos partidarios demasiado profundos.
Desafíos de Joseph Aoun, el nuevo presidente del #Líbano 🇱🇧 1- designar un premier q logre formar gobierno rápidamente, 2- atender la reconstrucción de las zonas chiítas, 3- entender la nueva lógica de seguridad regional y actuar en consecuencia, 4- resolver el problema económico
Efectivamente, se pudo: #Líbano tiene presidente luego de dos años y medio: es Joseph Aoun. El presidente ya juró en Diputados y ahora se dirige a tomar posesión del Palacio de Baabda. El próximo desafío: nominar a un primer ministro que pueda formar gobierno rápidamente.
¿Por qué los medios cubren los bombardeos y el avance de tropas de #Israel en #Siria así como están cubriendo las atrocidades de #Sednaya?
Crueldad es crueldad.
Terrorismo es terrorismo.