David Swanson (@davidcnswanson.bsky.social)

How Not to Halt a Genocide All those courageous United Nation delegates triumphantly walking out (gasp!) on a Netanyahu speech on Friday actually had a legal obligation to arrest him and deliver him to the International Criminal Court which has long since issued a warrant for his arrest. Those…

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How Not to Halt a Genocide All those courageous United Nation delegates triumphantly walking out (gasp!) on a Netanyahu speech on Friday actually had a legal obligation to arrest him and deliver him to the International Criminal Court which has long since issued a warrant for his arrest. Those heroic governments of Italy and Spain that are making a show of responding to public pressure against their complicity in genocide should be prosecuting Israelis under universal jurisdiction; establishing a complete embargo on weapons or weapons parts to or from Israel and to or from any nation not upholding such an arms embargo on Israel; ending diplomatic relations with Israel; ending financial transactions, trade, and travel to and from Israel; training and sending unarmed civilian defense teams, food, medicine, doctors, and aid workers to Palestine; developing a major public educational campaign about the genocide in Gaza and the propaganda that has facilitated it; supporting a Uniting for Peace action through the UN General Assembly to implement such steps worldwide and to economically sanction Israeli war criminals, expel Israel from the United Nations, and move UN meetings and headquarters out of the United States; as well as breaking off military relations with and expelling from Italy and Spain the thousands of troops belonging to a government that is not upholding an arms embargo on Israel; and removing themselves from NATO. http://davidswanson.org/how-not-to-halt-a-genocide/