Putting that aside, under what jurisdiction can they make arrests when they’re occupying internationally recognized sovereign territories. The Palestinians aren’t subject to their laws.
Fair enough, but the law binds its subjects as much as it does its judiciary. In other words, if the Israeli government can break the laws when it comes to Palestinians, what prevents it from doing the same to Israeli citizens? How can any citizenry be okay with this?
What you say is totally rational, which is why many of the people supporting these monsters are doing it for irrational reasons. Things like hate, anger, and bigotry seem to be very effective right now!
And thus you get the “and I did not speak up”. Everyone who is not affected at first thinks it won’t happen, when it does start happening to them, it’s too late.
Putting that aside, under what jurisdiction can they make arrests when they’re occupying internationally recognized sovereign territories. The Palestinians aren’t subject to their laws.
Their power comes from the barrel of a gun, and they do little to hide that fact besides bad-faith arguments.
Since when does an occupying supremacist colonizer care about laws?
If you’re ever being robbed just remind the robber that crime is illegal
Fair enough, but the law binds its subjects as much as it does its judiciary. In other words, if the Israeli government can break the laws when it comes to Palestinians, what prevents it from doing the same to Israeli citizens? How can any citizenry be okay with this?
That’s called selective enforcement. Just because there are laws, that doesn’t magically make the system fair.
What you say is totally rational, which is why many of the people supporting these monsters are doing it for irrational reasons. Things like hate, anger, and bigotry seem to be very effective right now!
And thus you get the “and I did not speak up”. Everyone who is not affected at first thinks it won’t happen, when it does start happening to them, it’s too late.