Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "The UN votes to recognise Palestine. The Israeli Ambassador, Gilad Erdan, is appalled" video.

  1. But surely, of all people, a UN ambassador understands that recognition of the State of Palestine is the recognition of a peoples and a country, NOT the terrorists within it? In the face of Israeli history, such gesture politics come off as shrill and hysterical. And such gestures have a way of backfiring. The next allegation his country makes of unfair treatment can be answered with, “But you shredded the UN charter, publicly and cannot invoke its protections now.” If not by UN politicians themselves, certainly by other hostile politicos and radicals. This ratification is simply a step (a rather small one in reality) in the direction of preventing further genocide. We can debate how intentional this genocide is, but not that it is occurring. On the first day, when we all heard about the Hamas attack and saw the appalling footage, I told my wife that Netanyahu would seize upon this as his lifeline and that Israel’s response would be disproportionate and will be seen, even by Israel’s allies, as a massive overreaction. My wife was sceptical, asking, “How can you overreact to that?” She pointed to a thumbnail of horror which I won’t describe on YouTube. My response was, “Give it a week, and you’ll see. Just remember I said this.” We simply cannot afford to lose sight of the fact that this is what is keeping Netanyahu a free man, and free of public shaming, opprobrium and the disgrace of a series of trial after being voted out of office in a probable landslide. The theatrics are a necessary part of his survival plan. So long as the war rages, he remains untouchable, and he knows from experience that he can keep this war raging for decades.
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