We live in unprecedented times, and living in unprecedented times means you witness unprecedented things.
Such as witnessing South Korea, a country that's extremely close to America, calling out Israel for war crimes in Gaza. 🇰🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱
Believe it or not, Ambassador Hwang made the following speech in the United Nations:
This was Israel's 8th bombing of a school sheltering civilians so far in August alone. We are all aware that civilian infrastructure should not be targeted; this is all the more so when those schools are being used as shelters for desperate civilians who have been displaced multiple times amid ongoing hunger, insecurity, and disease. Israel argues that these attacks on Al Tabi'een school were carried out using precise munitions to eliminate Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad members embedded in the compound but, regardless of this argument, a fact is a fact: Yet another school where hundreds of civilians were sheltering was intentionally targeted. Israel claims that 31 terrorists were eliminated, but in this indiscriminate airstrike, no distinction was made between militants and civilians, including women and children.
Why has a staunch American ally called out a heinous crime at the UN? Because after months of fighting, there is no justification for being unable to differentiate between civilians and fighters.
If they can pinpoint and assassinate Haniyeh all the way in Tehran, there's no excuse on earth that allows them to get away with the fact that they can't tell who's a civilian and who's a fighter. 🇮🇷
But they do. No matter how many times they've been called out, they always do get away with it. Because as long as America backs them, everything is fine.
As long as big brother exists, the little brother can rampage as much as he wants, knowing that his older brother will cover for him every single time.
Unfortunately, in the long run, that damages relationships with friends. Friends who hope one day that big brother will help them against their neighbor (NK). 🇰🇵
And when their neighbor commits war crimes, because they all do, every single time, they hope big brother 🇺🇸 will come to the rescue and rally the world around their cause 🇰🇷.
But America doesn't realize that if it doesn't contain Israel, it's going to lose its entire political goodwill amongst friends. I mean, I might be late to the party seeing as it already has. But whatever little of it is left is also withering away.
And we can see that from the Ambassador's speech. They're running out of patience, and they're running out of excuses.
If South Korea and America aren't able to rally support for the war against North Korea, it'll have been lost before it even began.
Israel's isolated in the region. They have no friends. Only American vessels in the region protecting them from Iran and Co.
If South Korea doesn't distance itself from Israel's crimes, they won't generate enough goodwill and public support for their war against North Korea, and they'll need international public support to win their war.
The same goes for the rest of America's allies. Calling out Israel for war crimes and distancing themselves is a strategy to generate public support and keep peaceful diplomacy alive. To keep international law alive, simply because everyone benefits from it. Rich and poor countries alike.
If international law is forsaken for support of Israel, the entire geopolitical scene of the world collapses and it becomes a free-for-all.
And living in a free-for-all world is similar to living in the apocalypse.
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