Craig Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official. He left the UN in October of 2023, penning a widely read letter that warned of genocide in Gaza, criticized the international response and called for a new approach to Palestine and Israel based on equality, human rights and international law.

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  • BettercallMao [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    11 days ago

    No countries should exist at all.

    Once again, point to el comandante. As i know, the only one from our time who supported a planet without borders as a possibility

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      11 days ago

      Idk I know it isn’t meant this way but it feels like an “all lives matter” framing.

      “Israel shouldn’t exist” “No country should exist”

      No, Israel specifically shouldn’t exist.

      And also, “no country should exist” is a weird thing to say in a world where countries exist to defend against colonialism. Cuba is a country and it has far more right to exist than the genocidal settler-colonial project of iϟϟntreal