Canada will abide by all rulings arising from South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), officials at Global Affairs Canada have told CBC News. The clarification comes after days of confusion over statements issued Friday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly in response to South Africa’s claim.
The headline of the article is misleading, and I think this person said it best:
Bueckert said the language the federal government chose is “so vague that anyone can project onto it what they want to think.”
Which means Bitcoin Millhouse will be practicing his attacks using this information.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
I think it’s a total failure of communication," said Michael Bueckert of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), which has called on Canada to declare its support for South Africa’s case against Israel.
“Canada’s unwavering support for international law and the ICJ does not mean we accept the premise of the case brought by South Africa,” wrote Joly.
Marceau said he doesn’t understand why the federal government took so long to state its position, and why it issued it on a Friday afternoon, when it knew the ICJ hearing was coming well in advance.
The misinterpretation also was repeated in the Washington Post, where columnist Max Boot reported that “the charge of genocide has been rejected not only by the United States but also by Canada, Britain and Germany.”
“Canada is siding with Israel in its defence against allegations of genocide, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau breaking the silence over the case heard this week at the United Nations’ court ICJ,” she tweeted.
“I would have hoped that that the government, as a self-declared friend and ally of Israel, would have clearly come out like Germany and the U.K. did, against the politicization of the ICJ by South Africa,” he said.
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Marceau said he doesn’t understand why the federal government took so long to state its position, and why it issued it on a Friday afternoon, when it knew the ICJ hearing was coming well in advance.
Because you release news on Friday if you want people to forget about it on Monday.
Glad it’s cleared up, but I think the top of the fence poked Trudeau’s butt…
Oh, well said, I’m stealing this.
Kids are dying and this asshole thinks he speaks for me? I don’t CARE what his position is, I didn’t vote for him and I no longer trust anyone to speak on my behalf if what they say in such a grim situation isn’t 100% what I would have said.
For the record? “You - Israel and Palestine - have been at this for so long that the only thing that matters to me is that your children don’t suffer. The rest of you either stop fighting, NOW AND FOREVER, or this will be the first time in history that genocide was the ultimate goal of both sides (the Hamas and the Israelis) and I do not give a FLYING FUCK if you were Holocaust victims, because that means YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN TO TRY AND WIPE OUT AN ENTIRE POPULATION AND YOU PULL THIS SHIT?!”
If you’re going to act like fucking Hitler, after your grandparents were the people Hitler wronged, you don’t get to fucking cry when the rest of humanity wants to prosecute you for war crimes. But NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, fucking Trudeau thinks otherwise and my opinion doesn’t matter. If you voted for Trudeau or for the Liberals last election, I hate you and I wish the worst upon you because clearly you don’t care about being FAIR. Life isn’t unfair, people who fucking want to have MORE than someone else so much that they TAKE it are unfair but they don’t give a shit because they’ve never had a reason to care about being fair as long as THEY won. So fuck everyone. I hate this world and I am never coming out of this goddamn room again, and if that sounds like a teenager crying unreasonably, THEN STOP FUCKING ACTING LIKE WORLD POLITICS IS A GODDAMN HIGH SCHOOL!
Oh, and for the record? Doesn’t mean I think South Africa is somehow free of guilt (see Apartheid). Every country has hypocrisy, what matters is policing each other when it comes to goddamn genocide. People’s lives are not expendable just because the person expending them isn’t affected by the consequences, but that means we all call each other out or we fucking go extinct.
If you look at who in South Africa is actually handling the prosecution, it makes a lot more sense. They, more than any other state, know what apartheid looks like.
I don’t think any other nation could have brought charges. It had to be SA.
Good point, that actually does make sense. If it takes one to know one, the people who know what oppression looks and feels like are absolutely the ones who know most what a place under an oppressive regime with good PR is from the outside. Not sure if it’s a complex set of skills or if it’s just a matter of comparing dictators to dictators and not to oranges, but stress testing and security testing bounties are things for a good reason.
Sorry about the above posts feeling accusatory, I’m having a terrible time and I’ve had a comfortable but miserable life of never succeeding at anything yet wanting to at the very least succeed in bringing other people happiness by helping to create or protect a near-utopian (since outright perfection is impossible and plausibly a boring existence if it was possible) world. When you’re protected from your failures most of the time but you never actually succeed you start to feel like you are worthless, and if you realize that’s not the case after too long, then someone starts to feel like the whole world is in some manner against them.
Problem is, I’m smart enough to know the logical conclusion is NOT that the people around me are all against me, and it’s taken long enough that I know the problem isn’t me either (long story). If it’s not me, and the world isn’t conspiring, then the real reason must simply be some sort of discrimination against me. As for what, I honestly can’t figure it out beyond “nobody anywhere online believes the truth about what they think I did even though it really is the truth”. I refuse to believe it was simply bad luck, though. Discrimination is not a conspiracy, and if you have psychiatrist A drugging you wrong but you get a new psychiatrist Band you have no issues, it is not a crazy thing to say “my last psychiatrist ruined my life”.
Crazy is - aside from being repetitively delusional - when no answer is ever good enough. I know because the only time in my life where I’ve felt paranoia was under my old psychiatrist’s medications, when every answer didn’t calm me, but stress me out with overthinking everything (and I don’t mean like this post, I mean like literally everything was too questionable to trust at that time, especially social media). I don’t know how people who - unlike my Autism diagnosis - have psychosis for real can stand NOT taking their pills as “feeling more lucid”. I have never felt my mind be more clouded than it was when that old doctor’s prescriptions caused chemically-induced paranoia, and mixed with a literally negative value of myself caused by it and two coincidential moments in my social life where I was unfairly pushed out of a group through no fault of my own, it nearly destroyed my mind and DID destroy my online reputation as a result.
I literally have a doctor’s note in my email and I haven’t shown it to the OpenTTD communit that I am a f-ing pariah of because I don’t know if even that will convince them that “my” behavior from March of 2017 until very recently was the work of this man… https://www.ratemds.com/doctor-ratings/531703/Dr-Richard-McGee-Castlegar-BC.html/ (also https://perma.cc/QE8Y-33US so it doesn’t redlink) …and that website speaks all that I would need said to confirm that that guy ruined my life and I shouldn’t have to and can’t be the one to rebuild it; I’m not this monster’s only victim. I already posted that link to them, they didn’t seem to care and believe I made it up.
I don’t have anything against any group at this point, because I know discrimination should, at the minimum, mean the discriminator silently leaves instead of being arrogant and cruel or you get all the people I feel like I’ve personally been wronged by, and now you know why I apparently have some of the highest empathy, best reasoning and (sadly) shortest tempers of anyone I’ve ever met. Thus, I’m mostly just angry that humanity seems to be falling apart everywhere at the same time and when someone points out that doing X is making that worse, X is either a completely innocent thing that the accuser is trying to destroy for personal gain, or the person doing X is trying to employ X and make it look like they are “allowed to” because they are part of Group Y (either Group Y is rich or Group Y is a corrupt culture warrior who justifies their actions as social justice or religious freedom). The rules are supposed to be equal, I suppose that does mean that if you want to prevent a hacker from breaking your system, some security-testing by a hacker who knows what to look for is exactly what is needed.
…this may sound crazy, but… anyone think uploading the world’s flaws to a Git repository of some sort as “bugs” would go a long way?
Maybe just… Chill a little?
