cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19627044

Palestine is expected to submit its application to join the BRICS, a group of emerging economies, after its upcoming summit in October in the city of Kazan, southwestern Russia.

Earlier, Putin invited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to attend the BRICS summit in Kazan.

“This invitation means that despite all the crimes, killings and destruction in the Gaza Strip, our message is that Palestine wants to live and to develop,” Ambassador Nofal added.

BRICS includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. In January, it welcomed Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the UAE as full members.

  • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    How doesn’t, the west has turned its back on the genocide they are facing so it only makes sense that they would seek to align themselves with players outside that group.

    China and Russia are as self serving as the US, no less or no more. Palestine could benefit from this relationship more than it benefits from being ignored by the west.

      • HikingVet@lemmy.caEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        Sure, but they aren’t doing it in Palestine, which is what the Palestinians are currently concerned about.

      • c10l@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        2 months ago

        So are the USA, or at the very least being complicit and enabling. Furthermore, of the Palestinians themselves!

        • InternetUser2012@lemmy.todayEnglish
          32·
          2 months ago

          Israel is committing a genocide. The world is letting it happen. The US is supplying them with weapons and has a ten year weapons contract with them that was signed in 2016.

          Fixed it for ya.

          • c10l@lemmy.worldEnglish
            23·
            2 months ago

            How is that a fix? You added weight to my argument.

            “The world” is not letting it happen though. The USA were the only country to veto the 2 cease-fire Security Council resolutions early in the conflict, only to later propose a washed down, toothless resolution.

            The USA remains silent over the ICJ’s ruling after South Africa’s genocide case.

            The USA are the ones slapping Netanyahu on the wrist but still supplying him with weapons, money and intelligence.

            The fact that it’s a 10 year contract has nothing to do with the issue. Surely your weapons and money being used to perpetrate a genocide would be reason enough to breach the contract, if there was political will. The problem is, there isn’t.

              • c10l@lemmy.worldEnglish
                13·
                2 months ago

                Are you trying to compare the USA selling missiles to Israel to Glock producing pistols? And a troubled teenager with a gun to a genocidal maniac?

                  • c10l@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    23·
                    2 months ago

                    I’d be willing to entertain you if the question was related to the thread at all but I don’t see how it is.

        • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          2 months ago

          So but China is literally rounding up Uighurs into camps though, you have to understand that it’s not the same thing

          • c10l@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            2 months ago

            Of course not. Israel is not only rounding up Palestinians but also bombing them, raping them, destroying their infrastructure, killing international aid workers to stop help coming in, destroying their schools and hospitals, … all with the support, political, financial and in weapons, of “the west”, led by the USA.

            Edit: and with very little hope of that changing after elections. https://theintercept.com/2024/08/30/kamala-harris-cnn-interview-israel-gaza/