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- Ayuso will be a total distraction and cause chaos and infighting
- Well, at the risk of seeming like I simply must have the last word, heh, I would still just like to point out that lots of people have been convicted of war crimes in recent wars including those in Syria, Yemen, Sudan and Ukraine, and including Western personnel from Iraq & Afghanistan. So I don't dispute that they inevitably and sadly happen in every war, only that Israel is being unduly harshly criticised over theirs. What seems different is the extent to which there is a pattern, and evidence that it is not just rogue personnel but deliberate strategy from above, right up to the highest levels in some cases, plus the ample evidence of genocidal or ethnic cleansing intent (a key critieria) in statements by top level military and political figures. I mean they've basically openly admitted to breaking Geneva Convention articles around collective punishment and witholding food and water as a weapon of war - it's this kind of thing that gets top figures charged with war crimes instead of just "a few bad apples".
- Team Belgium, along with most other teams, still haven’t figured out, that making the race harder, plays right into Pogi’s hands, and is only wearing them out, not Pogi.
- You do realize that Alaphilippe is French, right?
- @armando Something tells me you've practiced law past or present. If not, you can be a good one for sure ...
Your logic is very sound, but I'm not convinced. You can find evidence and more for war crimes in every war you will throw a stone at. The fact is that only Jews are trying to be met by these standards (war crime allegations that is).
BTW, I know what hybris means, and I don't regard myself as a sinner.
If you want to have the last word, please by all means. I don't think it's leading anywhere
- We can talk about Pogacar's apparent invincibility but beating him is down to the others to challenge him, not him to slow down. I also believe yesterday was for Del Torro but when Tadej got that small gap he did his job slowing the chase. Torrito needs no gifts 17 wins (I think) puts him second to Pogacar... thats pretty insane!
- @BM But you don't have any evidence that these bodies are predisposed to unfairly find against Israel in this matter. And even if they were, the fact is their arguments are laid out in detail with reams of supporting evidence and with reference to long-standing agreed definitions, so everyone can see their working. So they have made their case, with receipts. You have general, unfocused scepticism, which is probably a good thing in principle but which for some reason you're directing in one specific direction without basis. That's not sound reasoning.
- @aramando Yes, I do. In this world one doesn't know who's on who's payroll and what interest they do represent.
Ethnic cleansing, genocide referencing is all political, as I've claimed more than once and is based on the parties engaged in war.
I'd trust more a shoemaker for that matter. He will just want to fix your shoe (and maximize his profits which is fair) but doesn't have some hidden interest.
The world is polarized and everything is political: law, climate, environment, immigration, education even science
- @BM So you're challenging the consensus reached by a professional body of relevant experts who have laid out the evidence based on... vibes and misguided whataboutery. I mean, for example, when have Palestinians been the victims of attempted ethnic cleansing by other Palestinians?
- Jrobins Both the UN and the IAGS used the definition from Article II of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, with reference to addtional case law established by international law court hearings about previous genocides in the 1990s.
