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Negotiations are proceeding for a global treaty to reduce total plastic production.

When a non-citizen commits a serious crime in Australia, after per prison sentence, Australia's practice is to keep per in deportation prison until deportation actually occurs — which was meant not to be very long. But what if someone is impossible to deport? In practice this resulted in a sentence of life in prison.

A court ruled that Australia must release those people if actual deportation can't happen in the foreseeable future.

This is just, and safe. Citizens who commit the same crimes are not sentenced to life in prison. If it's not too dangerous to release the citizens who commit these crimes, why should it be more dangerous to release non-citizens who commit them (when deporting them is impossible).

Australia is putting its counterpart to Chelsea Manning on trial for leaking secret information about Australian soldiers' covered-up war crimes in Afghanistan.

*[Many] US supporters of Israel and Palestine fail to admit suffering of other side.*

They become *so entrenched in [their] views that to give an inch, even to acknowledge someone else’s suffering, feels like a betrayal [of the side one supports].*

I do not want to try to compare the gravity of HAMAS's war crimes with the gravity of Israel's war crimes. But we can easily see that Israel commits fresh war crimes every day, while HAMAS does not.

It's not that HAMAS has reformed or learned anything about the morality of killing or seizing civilians. It is simply that the current tactical situation offers HAMAS no opportunities to commit its forms of war crimes. It is nonetheless true that the newly committed war crimes are committed by Israel. Therefore, in regard to putting an end to the war crimes, we must focus on Israel's continuing war crimes, which It cannot excuse by citing the crimes of its enemies,

"Retaliation" and "deterrence" are not excuses for war crimes.