Government attributes decision to war crimes and human rights abuses being committed in Gaza
The title isn’t exact :
Moreover, their relations were only re-instaured after the western-supported coup by J.Añez :
(Here’s Colombia’s president 6 hours ago b.t.w., among other examples)
(no need to point out that it would be safer for them not to take position for//against any side. The article also spoke of Argentina, here’s an interesting 2mn-long point of view)
Basically every country, for the most part, wants to keep regular relations going with every other country. Doesn’t mean they agree with each other or really even engage in trade. They want to remain friendly and have open communications channels. Severing ties in this way means that there is no possible normal interactions between them again.
Good. Only ~215 countries to go. No one should have normal interactions with Israel or anyone who supports Israel.
Is this mostly symbolic? I wasn’t aware these countries had anything to do with each other.
Yes and no. We live in a global world and generally all countries are seen as “equal” when it comes to international relations. So when a country specifically severs ties with another, it creates friction, normally the rest of the world can provide proxy relations, i.e. Qatar with Iran, or Turkey or Britain/Canada with Cuba or whatever. But if multiple countries stop recognizing another countries sovereignty, that can cause a lot of complications with say citizens of that country traveling and having relations.
So even if Bolivia doesn’t deal with Israel directly, if there is an Israeli business conducting commerce within Bolivia, suddenly it becomes a lot more complicated if there is any kind of financial dispute, or some kind of international incident involving a country that Bolivia doesn’t have relations with.
Basically the Israeli company is exposed to a lot more risk then they would be otherwise.
I wish Arab and Muslim countries with relations with the settler colony were as honourable as Bolivia
How can it be that Muslim/Arab countries talk so much about Israel, yet it was South Africa who went to ICJ.
I believe even though the Arab/Muslim people care about Palestinian people, but Arab/Muslim politicians don’t. They don’t give a fuck, as Israel also don’t give a fuck.
PS: Free Palestinians!
All I know is we need better leaders but the means to achieve that are mostly violent and the current governments are willing to be very violent to protect themselves
