The law is not the same as justice

[sovay]

I just checked very fast out of my other social media because it is (not) astonishing how many people cannot criticize Israel without stampeding straight for the anti-Semitism, but what the hell is the U.S. doing blocking council statements and sessions in the UN? The previous administration were a bunch of Evangelical Christian Zionists who would have been glad to see molten glass from the river to the sea if it sped up their Rapture timetable, but I expected less Armageddon from the people I voted for. Unless there is some back-channel diplomacy at work with an actual chance of succeeding if given the extra time, I don't get it. I hope there is something obvious I am missing.

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[sovay]

I'm so sorry.

Thank you. I wasn't personally threatened, just exhausted, and I wasn't sure what had caused the local spike until spatch told me that an Israeli airstrike had destroyed the Al Jazeera offices in Gaza; also the offices of the AP, apparently. I just want to know that the country I live in is invested in de-escalation and I would prefer not to have gotten the news from a dogwhistly post about genocidal colonizers always having one another's backs.

[dewline]

And the AP and al-Jazeera were not alone. The Committee to Protect Journalists published a more detailed list:

https://cpj.org/2021/05/israeli-air-strikes-destroy-buildings-housing-more-than-a-dozen-media-outlets-in-gaza/