Mass walkout is in protest of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza - Anadolu Ajansı
    • Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      47·
      9 months ago

      They let him host the Olympics, so yeah probably.

      Also the US has veto power at the UN. So nothing can be done unless the US approves. Since the US enthusiastically supports genocide, nothing can be done.

        • krashmo@lemmy.world
          4·
          9 months ago

          Sure, but a lot of people use “the UN” as a sort of shorthand for “all the countries of the world”. Representing the whole world is, after all, one of the stated primary goals of the organization.

          • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.worldBanned
            11·
            9 months ago

            The organization that didn’t exist until after WWII?

            The organization that isn’t responsible for deciding where the Olympics are held?

            And as far as stated primary goals:

            United Nations Charter, Chapter I:
            Purposes and Principles

            Article 1

            The Purposes of the United Nations are:

            1. To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;
            2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;
            3. To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion; and
            4. To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.

            Nothing about representing the whole world. How would it even do that? Take a vote on the world’s favorite ice cream and the winner is the world’s favorite?

            • krashmo@lemmy.world
              3·
              9 months ago

              I know the UN didn’t exist back when Germany hosted the Olympics in Berlin. That isn’t the point of what I said. Then again, you’re clearly not the type of person that can think critically about the things that they read given your response here.

              You seriously read phrases like “develop friendly relations among nations” “take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace” “encourag[e] respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion” and came away thinking that representing everyone in the world has nothing to do with this organization? That’s absolutely asinine.

          • someguy3@lemmy.world
            4·
            9 months ago

            a lot of people use “the UN” as a sort of shorthand for “all the countries of the world”.

            No, no they don’t.

            • krashmo@lemmy.world
              3·
              9 months ago

              Yes they absolutely do. Maybe you don’t but that’s not the same thing as nobody, is it?

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 months ago

      There was no UN assembly when Hitler was alive, and he had Germany leave the predecessor League of Nations when he came to power.

  • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 months ago

    The world is turning against Israel but your average Israeli dumbass is still convinced that Israel is the protagonist of human history and simply a victim of everyone else’s bullying.

    Whole country filled with that ex everyone has had.