• killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    He said they are within their right to do that which is within the remit of international laws. He added that part about international law after the host added seiging and resource deprivation to a list of potential rights of Israel.

    Agree with you on the last part, he’s being extremely careful about the positioning for exactly that reason.

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      1 year ago

      At some point though, surely humanity and justice have to take precedence over politicking - I don’t think the need to tiptoe around issues like that is a good enough reason for excusing the collective punishment of 2 million people.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I’m not vouching for his whole worldview on this, just pointing out that he didn’t say the sieging and resource denial is okay.

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          1 year ago

          I think he kinda did tbh.

          I think the best you can say he didn’t do it on purpose. He clearly had a soundbite (‘Isreal has a right to defend itself within international law’), but maybe he didn’t actually listen to the question before using it?

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            1 year ago

            It was certainly a sound bite. But he only clarified “within international law” after the line of questioning became about the siege and resource denial, so he did actively change/update the sound bite to address that specific thing.

            He did somewhat seem on auto pilot with it after hearing the question, so I could believe he might choose to phrase it less poorly given a second chance, but It’s pretty presumptuous.

      • peg@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Not when you’re a Blairite. Nothing better than war and dead Muslims.