If "international law" was a real thing that actually existed, every nation which facilitated the destruction of Gaza would be forced to rebuild it immediately and war crimes tribunals would already be underway.
If "international law" was a real thing that actually existed, every nation which facilitated the destruction of Gaza would be forced to rebuild it immediately and war crimes tribunals would already be underway.
But international law does not exist in any meaningful way. Domestic laws exist because states have the power to enforce them, but there is no international body which has the power to force the US-centralized empire to stop committing mass atrocities. The reality is that we still live in an ultimately lawless world where tyrants do as they please, and the only rules of any real consequence are the ones which benefit the tyrants.
Domestic laws exist because it would never do for the masses to start killing the rich and powerful and taking back what's been stolen from them. The ruling tyrants pretend international laws exist in order to justify "humanitarian interventions" and economic sanctions against disobedient governments. In all cases what we're really seeing is the people with the guns and the bombs dictating how everyone else is allowed to act. That's not the rule of law, it's just garden variety totalitarianism with some narrative spin painted overtop it.
We will never live in a world where true justice is allowed to flourish as long as we are dominated by a tyrannical globe-spanning empire. Until then we remain in this wild west environment where the biggest band of thugs with the biggest guns make the rules.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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