Arrogant to the core, and dim to boot.

Absolute rubbish, even antisemitic in labelling a whole people because of the actions of a minority. You do yourself and your family and your ancestry a grave disservice with that comment.
I’d suggest you investigate the thousands of Israelis now imprisoned because they oppose the current regime and it’s actions.

Exact

Didn’t attack anything mate, just pointed out the flaws in your argument. Nothing arrogant about that either, except to the super sensitive little babies who can’t debate.
As for the rest of your nonsense spouted, well, events proved you wrong, as was acknowledged by Nelson Mandela. Our protests shocked the South African regime to the core, as he said, but he also said it was the economic sanctions by the EU that brought that regime to a close. Check the history – it’s all there.
Which proves the whole point I was making. States act outside ordinary people’s morality, but the individuals who make up the governments of states act usually in their own interests, usually for political survival.
Apply that lesson to Palestine/Israel. What’s your take on where it’ll be in five years time, in 10 years time?

How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn’t see?
You know where the answer is blowing

And on top of the ICJ – plausible genocide ruling – is this UN piece….”Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gaza” – https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147976

And an overview
https://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/05/the-icjs-findings-on-plausible-genocide-in-gaza-and-its-implications-for-the-international-criminal-court/

This International Court of Justice? https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/04/26/former-icj-president-says-world-court-did-not-rule-genocide-claim-against-israel-is-plausible/

So Richard you attack my decision not to pursue Pol Sci and what I remember. How fucking arrogant. Oh, and you imply only people who took the courses you took actually know anything, more arrogance. You demonstrate exactly the simplistic conclusions I objected to then.

So to apartheid, a straw man argument you say. Only those in power had the power to change it you contend. Individual and collective moral power only “set the stage”. That’s really typical materialistic cost benefit thinking, Randian nonsense. It reminds me of Thatcher telling us there was no society, only individuals prior to her releasing mental health patients into community care. Fortunately most politicians aren’t amoral, they are the product of civilisation that has long term patterns of moral thought that underpins their concepts of and use of power. You say you can see patterns, I’d suggest that you get wider optics.

Is there a reason you haven’t included Ottoman. Turk, Azerbaijain, Iraqi and Syrian warmongers in your litany of vicious and murderous behaviour? Asking on behalf of we gentiles and infidels.

Very – naive – that is.

Who would you have appointed?

Who gets to choose? Putin? Trump?

See my middle paragraph. States aren’t people, even if they’re made up of them. Not all governments are democracies, not even the majority!

This is supposed to be an informed political blog. I see too much of one and not enough of the other.