#rules based order

Emma Shortis‬ ‪@emmashortis.bsky.social‬ in the Guardian today:

Bravo Heather McPherson 👏👏

... over the last three decades, the US' magic touch in the region has almost systematically failed. These failures encompass everything from the collapse of an Israeli-Palestinian deal in 2000 and the "war on terror" across the broader Middle East (including Afghanistan in 2001 and a renewed invasion of Iraq in 2003) to an ignominious withdrawal from Kabul two decades later and the delivery of Iraq to pro-Iran militias after 2011. They also include the “Assad must go” policy in Syria in 2011, followed by the country's readmission to the Arab League and the reopening of Arab and western embassies in Damascus, along with an intelligent nuclear deal with Iran in 2015, followed by the Trump administration's ignominious withdrawal from the same deal three years later.

In addition, the US' failures encompass the biased Abraham Accords, which only served Israel’s interests, and an ironclad and blind support for Israel in its murderous assault on Gaza, which has led to accusations at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide and crimes against humanity.

Dr Pierre Klein; (Dato’ Seri Utama Haji) Mohamad Haji Hasan. 👏🏼👏🏼

It was good to discover that Mauritius has previously litigated this successfully against the UK in a recent precedent.