By Ramzy Baround
A dramatic escape was cited by Israeli media as the reason that Yuval Vagdani, a soldier in the Israeli army, managed to escape justice in Brazil.
Vagdani was accused by a Palestinian advocacy legal group, the Hind Rajab Foundation, of carrying out well-documented crimes in Gaza. He is not the only Israeli soldier being pursued for similar crimes.
According to the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (KAN), more than 50 Israeli soldiers are being pursued in countries ranging from South Africa to Sri Lanka to Sweden.
In one case, the Hind Rajab Foundation filed a complaint in a Swedish court against Boaz Ben David, an Israeli sniper from the 932 Battalion of the Israeli Nahal Brigade. He is also accused of committing war crimes in Gaza.
The Nahal Brigade has been at the heart of numerous war crimes in Gaza. Established in 1982, the brigade is notorious for its unhinged violence against occupied Palestinians. Their role in the latest genocidal atrocities in the Strip has far exceeded their own dark legacy.
Even if these 50 individuals are apprehended and sentenced, the price exacted from the Israeli army pales in comparison to the crimes carried out.
Numbers, though helpful, are rarely enough to convey collective pain. The medical journal Lancet’s latest report is still worthy of reflection. Using a new data-collecting method called ‘capture–recapture analysis’, the report indicates that by the first nine months of the war, between October 2023 and June 2024, 64,260 Palestinians have been killed.
Still, capturing and trying Israeli war criminals is not just about the fate of these individuals. It is about accountability – an absent term in the history of Israeli human rights violations, war crimes, and recurring genocides against Palestinians.
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Via https://original.antiwar.com/ramzy-baroud/2025/01/21/the-gaza-genocide-the-fall-of-israels-immunity/
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Agreed! I heard an interesting analysis last night that advised listeners to evaluate what Trump does rather than what he says. Apparently a lot of what he says is just trash talking. I reckon his survival chances are better if he doesn’t tell the global oligarchy what he plans to do to them.
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I agree!
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Trump’s bullying style of diplomacy will not impress Putin. The Russians don’t give a damn about sanctions. If Trump warns Putin about impending sanctions, Putin will tell Trump to go pound sand! Since the Maiden CIA-fueled coup in 2014 Ukrainian lives have been wasted in an attempt to harm Russia. When Trump recently said the Ukraine conflict is not our war, he was either lying or he’s just dense! America started the war and proceeded to finance it for the last ten years. While America is playing a game with Ukrainian lives, Russia is fighting an existential battle. And, the battle lines were not drawn in February 2022. They were marked by America’s and NATO’s meddling in 2014.
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According to the analysis I heard, papasha408, Trump is being cagey in concealing his real intentions towards Russia and China from the Davos crowd. To be honest, I wouldn’t blame him if he were.
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