The United Nations says it is collecting evidence of war crimes by both sides in the Israel-Hamas war, which began with the militant group’s brutal Oct. 7 cross-border attack and was followed by Israel’s relentless bombardment and a siege of Gaza.
I wish international law regarding war crimes was actually enforceable. There’s a long list of world leaders who’ve gotten away with mass murder with no consequences.
And it will mean nothing, because they can’t enforce anything.
At the moment.
But you know, some war criminals even from as far back as WWII were tried and convicted this century. Even though they got away with it for decades, it caught up with them in the end.
And yet nothing can be done because the very concept of war crimes runs face first into the concept of national sovereignty, which is what the entire current world order is built on
International law doesn’t work too well when basically everyone ignores it.
Russia? Yep. The US? Yep. Ukraine? Yep. Israel? Yep. Palestine? Yep. China? Yep. Vietnam? Yep. Taiwan? Yep.
People are too attached to their profits and global trade to do anything.
