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I mean jfc look at the Congress of Vienna which is as textbook a formal international settlement as you can get. Literally Metternich's whole deal was a balance of self-interests to prevent another general European conflict.

And who decides this universal morality to which the laws are tied? You, vimothy? Someone else? What universal arbiter of morality exists

The basis of any international agreement is a balance of self-interests

Semantics You know exactly what I mean There is no universal morality. Laws are exactly an expression of whoever made them.

why? Besides "bc I say so" I mean

To get back on topic, the immediate point is that whether or not it's even feasible (which I doubt) indisputably no international institution currently exists which is likely to serve as a means to solve Isr/Pal Certainly the UN Security Council ain't it

But we're way into some IR tangent

Yes it's almost as if laws have no inherent connection to morality

As I said to begin, lip service is better than nothing. Another of saying it is a useful fiction. If govts have to say that they care about human rights qua human rights instead of realpolitik, it might mitigate their behavior. An ICC that prosecutes leaders who aren't powerful enough to prevent...

I object to what Israel is doing - and tbc, various things its opponents have done - bc I as an individual find them immoral, not because they do or don't constitute war crimes according to whatever body decides what are and are not war crimes (i.e. no one, there is no such body with the ability...

reconcile these two statements

It's your criteria. Literally a direct quote from you.

You're confusing a description of reality with a seal of approval

Name a single occasion in which a truly global crisis has been solved by international law

Which is basically the same as Isr/Pal Ofc try It's just very unlikely to happen Tho imo more likely than an intl solution to climate change

But seriously I'm not saying don't try Of course try I'm just saying it won't happen

No you're right I'll stop what I'm doing and reorder the world economy to construct an unprecedented international solution to climate change

It won't come from anywhere bud we're just fucked Welcome to the desert of the real

The major problem w a two-state solution, which gets worse every year, is as has been mentioned the settlers

Some kind of two-state solution based on the pragmatic recognition that openended indefinite occupation is simply untenable Various Israeli leaders have recognized that. Rabin, Barak, Olmert. They've never been able to make a peace deal for a variety of reasons including both domestic...