Such a force could be authorized under the UN General Assembly's veto-proof United for Peace resolution.

Brett Wilkins
Sep 24, 2025

In his stirring final speech to a United Nations General Assembly, Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday called for an international armed intervention to end Israel’s nearly two-year genocide in Gaza.

“We need a powerful army of the countries that do not accept genocide,” Petro, who is in his last year in office and is limited under Colombian law to a single presidential term, told world leaders gathered in New York. “That is why I invite nations of the world and their peoples more than anything, as an integral part of humanity, to bring together weapons and armies.”

“We must liberate Palestine,” he asserted. “I invite the armies of Asia, the great Slavic people who defeated Hitler with great heroism, and the Latin American armies of Bolívar.”

“We’ve had enough words; it’s time for Bolívar’s sword of liberty or death,” Petro argued, referring to the 19th century Latin American independence hero Simón Bolívar.

  • PhilipTheBucket@quokk.auMEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    That’s just a guess though. You will likely pull up the Lancet estimates, but they have methodological problems and are unlikely to be accurate.

    Of course they do. No specific problems, no offer of some alternate attempt to estimate the total number of deaths, just “methodological problems” in general.

    How’s this then?

    https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-strip-un-commission-finds

    In establishing the genocidal acts, the Commission examined the Israeli military operations in Gaza, including killing and seriously harming unprecedented numbers of Palestinians; imposing a total siege, including blocking humanitarian aid leading to starvation; systematically destroying the healthcare and education systems in Gaza; committing systematic acts of sexual and gender based violence; directly targeting children; carrying out systematic and widespread attacks on religious and cultural sites; and disregarding the orders of the International Court of Justice.

    Sounds about right. Your boys are doing a holocaust, the leaders need to face a trial and be hanged as soon as possible, and the systems of international law that failed to prevent it need to be rectified as soon as possible. “Never again” and all that. Ideally, a big chunk of Israel’s territory should be annexed to Palestine as reparations, the current residents should be upended to live wherever, and anyone who tries to resist that effort should face a firing squad. As should, ideally, any individual IDF member who can be shown beyond a reasonable doubt to have taken part in any particular part of the holocaust.