Top UN official in New York steps down citing ‘genocide’ of Palestinian civilians

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theguardian.com

Craig Mokhiber, director of human rights body, accuses the US, UK and much of Europe as ‘wholly complicit in the horrific assault’

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“The current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, rooted in an ethno-nationalist colonial settler ideology, in continuation of decades of their systematic persecution and purging, based entirely upon their status as Arabs … leaves no room for doubt.”

Are we sure he just wasn't retiring due to his age? This statement seems pretty vague.

edit: for clarity, this is sarcasm

Sound pretty clear to me. And if you include the context of each sentence, before and after, I don’t see how much clearer it could get.

He said that the UN had failed to prevent previous genocides against the Tutsis in Rwanda, Muslims in Bosnia, the Yazidi in Iraqi Kurdistan and the Rohingya in Myanmar and wrote: “High Commissioner we are failing again.

“The current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, rooted in an ethno-nationalist colonial settler ideology, in continuation of decades of their systematic persecution and purging, based entirely upon their status as Arabs … leaves no room for doubt.”

Mokhiber added: “This is text book case of genocide” and said the US, UK and much of Europe were not only “refusing to meet their treaty obligations” under the Geneva Conventions but were also arming Israel’s assault and providing political and diplomatic cover for it.

You're 100% correct. I was making a joke about the people saying otherwise. I did an edit, but it wasn't fast enough to save you the time. Thank you for the correction.

Poe’s Law strikes again!

Better than Murphy's Law, because when that one strikes Matthew Mcconaughey falls out of a higher dimensional bookshelf worm hole in your ceiling. He is not fun company and keeps telling you to "just roll with it."

Around here Murphy's Law strikes as something like "After 1/2h writting a well though insightful comment, just before the the would be commenter presses 'Reply' he up/downvotes the parent comment, thus losing the entire text of his own not yet posted comment"

Halloweens over and yet you come with the spookiness. You gave me a small shiver with that one. It felt all too familiar.

Yes, read his letter giving notice.

sorry, /s. I might need to start clarifying that more. I appreciate the response

I ate the onion. Sorry, the tone of this particular discussion had me feeling frustrated.

based entirely upon their status as Arabs

Why Israel doesn't genocide 2 million Arabs that are Israeli citizens?

They don't have any land the Israeli right wing nuts want.

What grade of marxist/leninist shit is he smoking?

Oh hey boo, haven't seen you since you tried to say all the Jewish people should flee Detroit for fear of being murdered in religiously targeted hate crimes. What you been doing gurl?

I was wrong, it's all the terrorist flag waving, pro-genocidal chanting, revolutionary socialists and useful idiots for Iran, China, and Russia that should be leaving.

I hate to break it to you, but your track record of wrongness has not improved. Perhaps some courses at the community college may do some good?

The people I've seen entering the workforce out of college lately have been absolute morons that couldn't figure out how to push a broom if it came with an instruction manual. So I'm going to have to pass on that idea.

Are you calling them stupid, education stupid, or are you just saying they're poor workers?