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In reply to the discussion: Children are starving in Gaza. [View all]Beastly Boy
(13,283 posts)I did it from memory and obviously I erred. The "not Israel" part should have been outside the quotation marks, and it referred to your leaving the ICC's identical action in Israel's case out of your consideration. And if the "people" in that post referred to ICC among others, as you are clarifying now, that would make your later statement, "So people are doing more about Sudan than about Gaza", partially inaccurate, raising questions about who the "people" you are referring to are.
It is inaccurate to describe courts and administrations as "people", no matter the context. Adding to the confusion is your later statement, "But you are claiming to not understand that people show more interest in war crimes by governments allied to their own", which uses "people" in the correct context, hence the ambiguity of your statement is rather evident.
Now that I know who "those people" are, I can tell you that your allusion to them doing "more" having any chilling effect on the public and the media is absolutely unfounded. There is simply no correlation between the two. Case in point: when the ICC prosecutor announced charges against Netanyahu and Gallant, both the mainstream and the social media exploded with comments, a phenomenon that still reverberates unabated. Not so with Sudan, in whose case the ICC charges barely made a ripple.
So the correlation you are proposing, notwithstanding the leniency of the US government towards Israel, which I happen to agree with, is just not there. And the correlation I am proposing becomes self-evident.
And where did you get the idea that I claimed here, in writing no less, that the way an average person thinks is a mystery to me? My claim is the exact opposite: