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  • This news isn’t as good as it first appears unfortunately:

    State attorney Aner Helman told the court that 700 inmates had been moved to Ofer military facility in the occupied West Bank, with another 500 set to be transferred in the weeks to come. Around 200 detainees will remain in Sde Teiman, said Helman

    So, they’re not even shutting down their Abu Ghraib in Sde Teiman, but they’re moving the bulk of it to a detention camp called Ofer. Except:

    Last week, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said the military launched a probe into the allegations of mistreatment at Sde Teiman, as well as at Anatot and Ofer

    In other words Ofer’s already a shit show of human rights abuses as well. They’re just shuffling people around their various camps.


















  • Honestly, just get yourself an account that allows you to see who votes and vote order, it will save you a lot of paranoia.

    3 of the first 11 upvotes are people I recognise and have interacted with. It’s obviously not sockpuppets.

    If the downvotes I can see, two of the first 3 are people I’ve recently interacted with as well.

    I’m a non-US fediversian and I upvoted it because I thought the headline was funny and because I sympathise with Americans for having to choose between these two old men (who aren’t even Bernie Sanders, which would have been more understandable).


  • It’s a point that only makes sense if you don’t pay attention to international geopolitics.

    Small countries have a vested interest in the upholding of international law because they are vulnerable, so they quite often stick their heads up above the parapet for it. E.g. when the Rohingya Genocide occurred in South East Asia a small country in West Africa, The Gambia, are the ones who took them to the ICC.

    As for South Africa, it has a very long history of criticizing Israel for its apartheid. Bishop Desmond Tutu made international headlines by calling it an apartheid after his visit to Israel and Palestine. Moreover, during Apartheid South Africa era, Israel was one of the big weapons suppliers to the Apartheid regime (which was at war with its neighbour) when many countries were boycotting it.

    The entire African Union are quite sensitive about what Israel does.

    If you know anything about history, it makes perfect sense that South Africans would be leading the charge here (which they have done consistently).