During a United Nations Security Council meeting this week, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield launched a full-throated condemnation of Russiaā€™s bombing of Ukraineā€™s largest childrenā€™s hospital on Monday. The attack was a part of a Russian bombing campaign that killed more than 30 Ukrainian civilians.

ā€œWeā€™re here today because Russia ā€¦ attacked a childrenā€™s hospital,ā€ Thomas-Greenfield said. ā€œEven uttering that phrase sends a chill down my spine.ā€

Thomas-Greenfield went on to list a string of Russian attacks on other Ukrainian hospitals throughout the war. She described Russiaā€™s aggression as a ā€œcampaign of terrorā€ and labeled its attacks on civilian infrastructure as violations of international law. Representatives of other countries, such as the United Kingdom and France, echoed Thomas-Greenfieldā€™s denunciations. (Russiaā€™s ambassador denied responsibility for the Monday bombing.)

ā€œIā€™m very glad the U.S. is coming out and so vocally condemning all of those actions,ā€ said Jessica Peake, an international law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, referring to Thomas-Greenfieldā€™s comments toward Russia. ā€œBut at the same time, we donā€™t get any language anywhere near as strong as that when weā€™re talking about Palestinian hospitals, or Palestinian schools, or Palestinian children.ā€

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    Might it have something to do with Israel being USAā€™s ally and a functioning democracy, and Gaza being the one who started the war?

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      4 months ago

      Israel is not a democracy they donā€™t even have freedom of press and gay marriage is illegal in israel.

      Also israel started the Genocide.

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        4 months ago

        gay marriage is illegal in israel.

        What does this have to do with anything?

        Also gay marriage isnā€™t illegal, getting gay married is

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      Democracy and apartheid are diametrically and definitionally opposed to one another. By your metric, an illegal occupation is not an act of war, and the deaths, rapes, torturings, and kidnappings didnā€™t constitute any violations. Only through ignorance or hatred can you arrive at your view of the war.