ICJ decision holds that Israel’s siege on Gaza is “plausible” genocide By Dave McKee The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled today that Israel’s siege on Gaza is a “plausible” genocide and has ordered a series of emergency, provisional measures that Israel must take. Shamefully, the Canadian government’s response to the decision by the highest […]
Yes, but at this point it literally could not look any more like a genocide. By every legal mechanism possible at this point, any stronger wording could not be possible. By that logic, genocide can only happen in the past, after a trial has made an official ruling.
The trial has begun, and was overwhelming voted as having merit. I don’t know what more anyone could want here. We’re staring down a live-streamed extermination and debating the wording we can use to describe it.
If the ICJ rules this a genocide in the future, the actions taken by its alies right now could ammount to assisting in their genocide.
Yes, I agree with all points you made.
Governments are legal entities mostly filled with lawyers that dance around legalese and semantics, now also.
The Rwandan genocide was also like this in the sense that noone expected this many casualties could be accrued with machetes and small arms in such a short time… In the end the whole world watched as in 100 days somewhere between 500k and 1 million people where killed and half of that number where raped. Once the fog of war lifted the extent of the horror became clear.
I think the whole situation in the middle east around Israel and Palestinians is incredibly difficult, since there is so much bad blood between all parties that I cannot imagine an outcome that would last over time…
It’s something rather uncomplicated if you look at it through the lens of settler colonialism. This is been Noam Chomsky’s project for decades if you’re interested in looking deeper into it. But yes the bad blood and the bad faith arguments run deep.
I’m familiar with Mr Chomsky’s work, I don’t agree to all of it but he has some very deep well thought out thoughts on the matter.
It’s not difficult at all. One state Palestine. Zionists can fuck off back to their home country or learn to co-exist as equals.