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92·1 year agoIn The Guardian it was reported very differently. Like it was an arranged retirement and this was just his exit letter
Top UN official in New York steps down citing ‘genocide’ of Palestinian civilians
He informed the UN in March 2023 of his upcoming retirement
1·1 year agoI am not a fan of the United Nations but since they are highly regarded by some, I will provide some of their relevant links:
Historical timeline on the question of Palestine
United Nations General Assembly | Human Rights Council | 28 February–1 April 2022 - 4 pages
Includes:Israel’s Escalated Efforts to Silence Opposition to its Apartheid
Israel’s Fear of Criticism Reaches New Levels – Outlawing Palestinian CSOs
Anti-Zionism is not Anti-Semitism
Recommendations: We call on Member States of the Council to:
• Recognize Israel’s policies to silence opposition including against Palestinian CSOs as part of its apartheid;
• Call on Israel, to immediately cease its systematic policies and practices aimed at silencing Palestinian CSOs and HRDs, in breach of their right to freedom of expression, privacy, and association, and to urgently rescind the designations, which amount to acts of apartheid;
• Publish a bulletin to banks and financial institutions, putting them on notice to dismiss as inapplicable, Israel’s designation, and call on the European Union and States to remove ‘terrorism’ clauses as internal conditions placed on donor funding of Palestinian CSOs;
• Call for an independent investigation into Pegasus-NSO Group’s operations within Palestine, in order to identify the scope of its surveillance activities against Palestinian HRDs, and their ties to the Israeli government;
You said this:
Jews across the world calling for peace
and it reminded me of them and they are amazing:
Thousands of human remains were brought from German colonies - partly as “trophies” but also for racist research.
(…)
“They decided to set farms on fire so people would run out of food and be unable to fight. This is unacceptable, in today’s world they would be taken to court,” he said.These are just a couple of sentences. The colonial forces of Germany were committing genocide for a couple of years.
Tanzania historian Mohamed Said welcomed the president’s apology but told the BBC it did not go far enough
No wonder
Related article (2019)
Germany’s unacknowledged genocide in Tanzania.An estimated 250,000–300,000 people, mostly civilians, women and children were starved to death by German troops after their tribes rose in revolt against the German colonial oppression.
In fact, the Germans were so “efficient” in their genocidal campaign in Tanzania that the total African population in the region decreased by as much as three quarters.
That is something?
As the war enters its 20th day, support from the country’s population has begun to turn, with at least 49 percent of Israelis saying they want the government to hold off on any invasion of Gaza, according to an opinion poll published by Hebrew daily Maariv on 27 October.
On the other hand, it looks like Netanyahu doesn’t listen to the people anyway.
Israel: Protests escalate against Netanyahu ‘dictatorship’
According to the United Nations they are settlers. [link - March 2022]
“There is today in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967 a deeply discriminatory dual legal and political system, that privileges the 700,000 Israeli Jewish settlers living in the 300 illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank,” said Michael Lynk, the UN Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967
Also, even though english is not my first language, I would argue that picking on helpless people is not synonym to killing people and/or dispossessing them of their homes and land.
Even The Times of Israel calls them settlers
Palestinian shot dead by settler while harvesting olives in West Bank – report
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4·1 year agoTo my understanding this concept paper came from wikileaks [wikileaks twitter link and
twitter link translated in english]
Thank you so much!
@TokenBoomer do you perhaps know a way to skip the subscription part in order to view the article?
The following article gives an overview of the background of the situation:
Some relevant info by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ): Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza conflict
I wonder why you say this? Anyways, I had the same conversation yesterday, so I hope you won’t mind if I just copy-paste the answer.
According to the United Nations they are settlers. [link - March 2022]
Also even The Times of Israel calls them settlers
Palestinian shot dead by settler while harvesting olives in West Bank – report
So, I think it would be fair to say it is the correct word?