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The bias predates the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.

The litmus test is if they were just opposed to the policies of the South African government, or did those countries also hate South Africa and South Africans?

Did they have a history of persecution of South Africans in their own country?

Were they funding armed groups to attack South Africa?

Did they believe that South Africa has no right to exist anyway?

Many members of the UN are openly biased against Israel, many are officially against the very existence of Israel and have always been, and they happily vote on any condemnation of Israel regardless of what Israel does.

This includes countries that have ethnically cleansed their Jews, and countries that do not allow Jews to enter.

“Justice” without enforcement is meaningless.

They have a warrant out for Putin, has that made any impact on the war in Ukraine?

Regardless, the international law is that they are supposed to be given a chance to do so, which they weren’t.

There are no trials in combat.

Trial by which court?

This is standard rules of war. Soldiers don’t have to convene a court before shooting at enemy combatants.

If the country itself has a justice system that can prosecute the individual, the ICC has no jurisdiction.

In the case of Israel the ICC used a loophole to work around this, since the Israeli courts are actually able to prosecute Netanyahu (and are currently doing so on other matters).

There’s a fundamental flaw in the concept of “international justice”.

On a nation level the power of a court to prosecute individuals is supported by a policing force that is capable of resorting to violence on a local level that is acceptable for the greater peace.

On an international level, enforcing justice would ultimately require going to war, with mass casualties and likely numerous incidents of potential breaches of the law itself.

In the example of Israel vs Hamas, the ICC warrant included the leaders of Hamas - but the ICC had zero chance of actually arresting them, they were killed by Israel though. So half of the defendants carried out the justice sought by the ICC on the other half.

Neat demo. The unsettling part is how little signal you actually need: big CDNs and fraud teams already run much richer timing models than a simple min_rtt / rtt ratio. You can’t spoof away the speed of light, only add latency or jitter, and that itself becomes a fingerprint once you have enough traffic and a few global PoPs to compare from. So this doesn’t magically break L3 VPNs, but anyone relying on “just stick a TCP proxy in front and I’m anonymous/in-region” has been living with a pretty outdated threat model.

The UN is not an unbiased institution. It’s a representation of the viewpoints of countries, and it’s quite obvious that many member countries are biased to one side on the matter.

Countries get an equal vote regardless if they are corrupt dictatorships with abysmal human rights at home.

Your comment is one data point in a deluge of similarly slanted views across all platforms that, in conjunction, have real consequences and fuel the violence.

I don’t think that’s your intention, or that your comment on its own can have a significant impact, you are just one person I can reach out to. I think you agree that it’s wrong to make a negative exaggeration against a group of people, and I was just pointing out that that what you said was an exaggeration.

I was actually trying to be precise.

The 27 UN member countries (within 1,000 miles):

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Chad, Cyprus, Egypt, Eritrea, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, North Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, Yemen.

Additional non-UN / partially-recognized entities also within 1,000 miles

Kosovo, Palestine, Northern Cyprus.

Although my source occasionally hallucinates, I think this is approximately accurate, especially if you consider the distance Israeli jets actually travelled.

Iran is a thousand miles away from Israel. There are like 30 other countries within that radius.

I get that you’re trying to make a different point, but your exaggerated language presents a distorted slant, and such one-sided rhetoric, especially when repeated many times, actually contributes to the political shifts and the spirals of violence that you worry about.

The fact that “no ads and no AI” reads like a luxury feature set in 2025 says a lot about the state of search. Nice reset to sane defaults.

> Israel is attacking all of their neighbours.

That’s a bit of an exaggeration. Israel has not attacked Egypt or Jordan.

It has attacked Lebanon after the north of Israel had been evacuated for many months due to relentless rocket attacks from Lebanon.

The only preemptive attack on a neighbour was Syria, after the fall of the Assad regime.

It's not about what the company does but about who they are, and the hatred is ancient.