OK, first, if we’re going to try calling out specific fallacies: that’s a slippery slope fallacy, and expecting remedial action and/or accountability does not automatically lead to Hammurabi’s Deathtrap.
As regards the behaviour of world powers in a way that is perfectly analogous to bullies, with stated intentions and past actions to use as guides, what, precisely, do you believe I have ascribed as far as personalities are concerned? I can list specific events which are analogous to every event in that narrative, from sykes-picot to the crusades, the holocaust to white phosphorus raining over Gaza. Also, whose argument are you suggesting I am strawmanning? Netanyahu with his government’s stated intent to “destroy” Gaza? These governments, who’ve been too busy jailing people for calling them out for genocide to actually give a shit about, you know, the genocide?!
Other than all of that, sure, what about this exemplifies “good faith” to you? This appears, to me, to be nothing more than Realpolitik, using this move as a way to try to convince their people to stop calling out their complicity in genocide, without actually doing anything to stop the genocide. Is there some actual commitment to action that this entails, or is it just words amounting to “we support the right of Palestinians to self govern, at some point in the hypothetical future where they continue to exist as a distinct people”. There is a difference between performative words and concrete action. If they intend to wash their hands of their deeds, then words are a shitty solvent at so late a juncture.
OK, first, if we’re going to try calling out specific fallacies: that’s a slippery slope fallacy, and expecting remedial action and/or accountability does not automatically lead to Hammurabi’s Deathtrap.
As regards the behaviour of world powers in a way that is perfectly analogous to bullies, with stated intentions and past actions to use as guides, what, precisely, do you believe I have ascribed as far as personalities are concerned? I can list specific events which are analogous to every event in that narrative, from sykes-picot to the crusades, the holocaust to white phosphorus raining over Gaza. Also, whose argument are you suggesting I am strawmanning? Netanyahu with his government’s stated intent to “destroy” Gaza? These governments, who’ve been too busy jailing people for calling them out for genocide to actually give a shit about, you know, the genocide?!
Other than all of that, sure, what about this exemplifies “good faith” to you? This appears, to me, to be nothing more than Realpolitik, using this move as a way to try to convince their people to stop calling out their complicity in genocide, without actually doing anything to stop the genocide. Is there some actual commitment to action that this entails, or is it just words amounting to “we support the right of Palestinians to self govern, at some point in the hypothetical future where they continue to exist as a distinct people”. There is a difference between performative words and concrete action. If they intend to wash their hands of their deeds, then words are a shitty solvent at so late a juncture.