• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    What is the UN human rights chief supposed to do about it?

    He did all that was in his power:

    Volker Türk told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council there must be an independent and transparent investigation of the two attacks in Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday where these devices exploded, reportedly killing 37 people and injuring more than 3,400 others.

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      12 hours ago

      They could all say they are going to disband if Israel doesn’t stop. Why even have the UN if they can’t do anything

      Or better yet expel isreal

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        The UN should disband for not stopping Israel, something the US (Biden right now) would stop yet when Biden was criticized you defended him as ‘there was nothing he could do’.

        Love Americans and their hypocrisy.

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        First of all, that’s also not in his power.

        Secondly, how would disbanding the part of the UN that investigates human rights abuses help Palestinians?

        Edit: Wait, you think the entire UN should be disbanded over this?

        The UN is the only reason we haven’t had a nuclear war yet. Otherwise, countries wouldn’t have a neutral world forum.

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            That’s not what the UN is for… it’s not a military force… it’s a round table for nations to work their differences out via words and not nuking each other.

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              People like to criticise the UN but the alternative to having the UN is having no UN. We’d be fucked