🇲🇾 Malaysia Prime Minister in Russia: "This did not begin in October 7. It began with colonization & the Nakba in 1948… It doesn't stop because of Israel's intransigence with the total support of the US… It's time that Palestinians are treated as human beings, not as slaves" pic.twitter.com/78Z7LbRSFp
— COMBATE |🇵🇷 (@upholdreality) September 5, 2024
Bless him for sayin’ it, and did he say anything different than many of us have been saying for a very long time? No. So damn many are calling Israel out and these efforts amount to almost nothing. When do we stop the genocidal monster? And so many of us have incredible personal challenges in our own lives, but one-by-one we’ll take our turn to do what we can. Being ready is a start, but no words will calm genocide.
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“Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention, but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.”
— Jon Corzine
“What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.”
— Philip Gourevitch
“You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.”
— Nicholas Kristof
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