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I think most of us know that, pathetically enough, the second part of the article's title is not true. For many years I wondered how civilized people could ignore what was happening in Palestine, given how obvious the crimes were, how openly they were committed, and how much fairly blatant documentary evidence existed to corroborate the atrocities, long before smartphone cameras became ubiquitous and they could all be recorded. And then the Syrian war (and also the counter-revolution / coup in Egypt) happened and I realized, "Oh, that's how." While I think maintaining a documentary record of these kinds of atrocities is important, I doubt it will mean that anyone will pay any price for them. The ICC's record, even with smaller regimes that are less influential, is pretty bad. They could not get Kenyatta, they couldn't get Omar Al Bashir. Syria has much stronger allies than both of those regimes, and far greater geopolitical significance. The ICC will never hold these men accountable, and I doubt anyone else will either. Amith R. Gupta _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
