Israel Remains Intent on Genocide Despite World Court Orders | truthout

[Scott]

Article I thought was good published Tuesday, thought it might garner a bit of discussion here...

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After the ICJ told Israel not to commit genocide, it killed, wounded and denied aid to tens of thousands of Gazans.

By Marjorie Cohn , TRUTHOUT

Published March 26, 2024

Israel is continuing its genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza and hindering humanitarian relief efforts despite specific orders from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), or the World Court, to refrain from these very actions.

On January 26, in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, the ICJ ordered the following provisional measures be taken:

1. Israel shall prevent the commission of all genocidal acts, especially (a) killing Palestinians in Gaza; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to Palestinians in Gaza; (c) deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in whole or in part; and (d) imposing measures intended to prevent Palestinian births in Gaza;

2. Israel shall immediately ensure that its military does not commit any of the acts listed above;

3. Israel shall punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide;

4. Israel shall immediately enable urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza;

5. Israel shall prevent the destruction and ensure the preservation of evidence; and

6. Israel shall submit a report to the ICJ on all measures taken to carry out this order within one month.​

Since the ICJ issued the order, Israel has consistently flouted its mandate.

Israel Continues to Kill, Wound and Deny Humanitarian Aid

Gaza’s Health Ministry reported that between January 26 and February 23, more than 3,400 Palestinians in Gaza had been killed. Israeli forces repeatedly killed and wounded civilians fleeing or taking shelter in areas the Israeli military had declared “safe zones.” As of this writing, more than 32,000 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 75,000 have been wounded in Gaza.

One month after the ICJ’s ruling, Human Rights Watch reported that, “Israel continues to obstruct the provision of basic services and the entry and distribution within Gaza of fuel and lifesaving aid, acts of collective punishment that amount to war crimes and include the use of starvation of civilians as a weapon of war. Fewer trucks have entered Gaza and fewer aid missions have been permitted to reach northern Gaza in the several weeks since the ruling than in the weeks preceding it,” citing a study by the United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

“The Israeli government is starving Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians, putting them in even more peril than before the World Court’s binding order,” said Omar Shakir, who is Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch. “The Israeli government has simply ignored the court’s ruling, and in some ways even intensified its repression, including further blocking lifesaving aid.”
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Israel Remains Intent on Genocide Despite World Court Orders | truthout

 

[Kamala Trump]

Article I thought was good published Tuesday, thought it might garner a bit of discussion here...

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After the ICJ told Israel not to commit genocide, it killed, wounded and denied aid to tens of thousands of Gazans.

By Marjorie Cohn , TRUTHOUT

Published March 26, 2024

Israel is continuing its genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza and hindering humanitarian relief efforts despite specific orders from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), or the World Court, to refrain from these very actions.

On January 26, in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, the ICJ ordered the following provisional measures be taken:

1. Israel shall prevent the commission of all genocidal acts, especially (a) killing Palestinians in Gaza; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to Palestinians in Gaza; (c) deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in whole or in part; and (d) imposing measures intended to prevent Palestinian births in Gaza;

2. Israel shall immediately ensure that its military does not commit any of the acts listed above;

3. Israel shall punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide;

4. Israel shall immediately enable urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza;

5. Israel shall prevent the destruction and ensure the preservation of evidence; and

6. Israel shall submit a report to the ICJ on all measures taken to carry out this order within one month.​

Since the ICJ issued the order, Israel has consistently flouted its mandate.

Israel Continues to Kill, Wound and Deny Humanitarian Aid

Gaza’s Health Ministry reported that between January 26 and February 23, more than 3,400 Palestinians in Gaza had been killed. Israeli forces repeatedly killed and wounded civilians fleeing or taking shelter in areas the Israeli military had declared “safe zones.” As of this writing, more than 32,000 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 75,000 have been wounded in Gaza.

One month after the ICJ’s ruling, Human Rights Watch reported that, “Israel continues to obstruct the provision of basic services and the entry and distribution within Gaza of fuel and lifesaving aid, acts of collective punishment that amount to war crimes and include the use of starvation of civilians as a weapon of war. Fewer trucks have entered Gaza and fewer aid missions have been permitted to reach northern Gaza in the several weeks since the ruling than in the weeks preceding it,” citing a study by the United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

“The Israeli government is starving Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians, putting them in even more peril than before the World Court’s binding order,” said Omar Shakir, who is Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch. “The Israeli government has simply ignored the court’s ruling, and in some ways even intensified its repression, including further blocking lifesaving aid.”
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Full article:
Israel Remains Intent on Genocide Despite World Court Orders | truthout

Jews get to keep reliving their ptsd on the rest of the world for eternity apparently, cuz never again.

 

[Guno צְבִי]

The problem Israel has is the Palestinian Leaders for the past 100 years have convinced there people that Israel should not accept Israels existence because they are a Jewish Majority State.

This opposition to a Jewish State forced the Arab world to make Israel stronger by making sure every Jew in the Middle East was in Israel. This was done so they could slaughter all the Jews in the same place and not have to hunt them down. They attempted this in both 1948 and 1967 failing both times.

Now before 1967 these Arabs denied being Palestinian- in fact they Rioted due to the British referring to them as so. The Grand Mufti of Mandatory Palestine sided with the Nazis during the war and they learnt a lot from the Nazi Propaganda Machine- even having an Arab division of the SS. The Antisemitic ideology is still alive and well in the region and is part of the reason the conflict continues.

 

[Kamala Trump]

The problem Israel has is the Palestinian Leaders for the past 100 years have convinced there people that Israel should not accept Israels existence because they are a Jewish Majority State.

This opposition to a Jewish State forced the Arab world to make Israel stronger by making sure every Jew in the Middle East was in Israel. This was done so they could slaughter all the Jews in the same place and not have to hunt them down. They attempted this in both 1948 and 1967 failing both times.

Now before 1967 these Arabs denied being Palestinian- in fact they Rioted due to the British referring to them as so. The Grand Mufti of Mandatory Palestine sided with the Nazis during the war and they learnt a lot from the Nazi Propaganda Machine- even having an Arab division of the SS. The Antisemitic ideology is still alive and well in the region and is part of the reason the conflict continues.

globalists believe no countries should exist.

borders are racism.

Are you a fascist troglodyte?

 

[Scott]

Jews get to keep reliving their ptsd on the rest of the world for eternity apparently, cuz never again.

In fairness to jews, not all of them are on the gaza slaughter bandwagon. Some articles on this:

‘Not in our name’: Jewish peace activists across the US call for immediate ceasefire and justice for Palestinians | CNN

‘Not in my Name’: how a new generation is divesting from Israeli apartheid | Mondoweiss

As to those Jews who do believe that what jewish people suffered during Nazi germany justifies what Israel is doing now, the irony is that they are essentially copying elements of the Nazi model. Wikipedia actually has an article on the subject that I found quite interesting:

Comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany | Wikipedia

A good paragraph in their article:
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The Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz introduced the term "Judeo-Nazis." He argued that continued military occupation of the Palestinian territories would lead to the moral degradation of Israeli Defense Force (IDF), with individuals committing atrocities for state security interests.[18][19] In 1988, Holocaust survivor Yehuda Elkana warned that the tendency in Israel to see all potential threats as existential and all opponents as Nazis would lead to Nazi-like behavior by Jews.[20] During the First Intifada, historian Omer Bartov was enraged by Yitzhak Rabin's call to "break the bones" of Palestinians and wrote him a letter arguing that, based on Bartov's research, the IDF could be similarly brutalized as the German Army was during World War II.[21] One Israeli nationalist told Amos Oz that he did not care if Israel was called a Judeo-Nazi state, it was "better [to be] a living Judeo-Nazi than a dead saint."[22] In 2018, Noam Chomsky cited Leibowitz, arguing that he was right in his prediction that the occupation was producing Judeo-Nazis.[23]
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[Kamala Trump]

In fairness to jews, not all of them are on the gaza slaughter bandwagon. Some articles on this:

‘Not in our name’: Jewish peace activists across the US call for immediate ceasefire and justice for Palestinians | CNN

‘Not in my Name’: how a new generation is divesting from Israeli apartheid | Mondoweiss

As to those Jews who do believe that what jewish people suffered during Nazi germany justifies what Israel is doing now, the irony is that they are essentially copying elements of the Nazi model. Wikipedia actually has an article on the subject that I found quite interesting:

Comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany | Wikipedia

A good paragraph in their article:
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The Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz introduced the term "Judeo-Nazis." He argued that continued military occupation of the Palestinian territories would lead to the moral degradation of Israeli Defense Force (IDF), with individuals committing atrocities for state security interests.[18][19] In 1988, Holocaust survivor Yehuda Elkana warned that the tendency in Israel to see all potential threats as existential and all opponents as Nazis would lead to Nazi-like behavior by Jews.[20] During the First Intifada, historian Omer Bartov was enraged by Yitzhak Rabin's call to "break the bones" of Palestinians and wrote him a letter arguing that, based on Bartov's research, the IDF could be similarly brutalized as the German Army was during World War II.[21] One Israeli nationalist told Amos Oz that he did not care if Israel was called a Judeo-Nazi state, it was "better [to be] a living Judeo-Nazi than a dead saint."[22] In 2018, Noam Chomsky cited Leibowitz, arguing that he was right in his prediction that the occupation was producing Judeo-Nazis.[23]
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no shit. I didn't mean all jews.

please don't be that exhausting.

 

[Scott]

The problem Israel has is the Palestinian Leaders for the past 100 years have convinced there people that Israel should not accept Israels existence because they are a Jewish Majority State.

From what I've learned from a chart I found on Wikipedia page on the timeline of the demographics of Palestine, the year before Israel first came into being in 1948, it was clearly evident that Jewish population was -not- in the majority in Palestine- Israelis accounted for less than 32% of the population, Christians around 7% and Muslims almost 60%. The chart actually shows that prior to that, the Jewish population was in the majority only from the 1st to the 4th century. After that, there's no solid evidence that they were ever a majority again in Palestine prior to declaring itself a nation in Palestinian territory.

What's more, in the early 20th century, there were actually more Christians in Palestine than Jewish people. Only by 1922 does their begin to be more Jews than Christians. Meanwhile, Muslims had been the largest part of the Palestine population since the end of the 12th century at least.

This opposition to a Jewish State forced the Arab world to make Israel stronger by making sure every Jew in the Middle East was in Israel. This was done so they could slaughter all the Jews in the same place and not have to hunt them down. They attempted this in both 1948 and 1967 failing both times.

While it's certainly true that Arab countries attacked Israel in 1948, let's not forget what happened before this, namely Plan Dalet. From Wikipedia's page on this plan:
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In the summer of 1937, according to the official history of the Haganah, the commander of their forces in the Tel Aviv area, Elimelech Slikowitz ("Avnir") received an order from Ben-Gurion. Ben-Gurion, anticipating an eventual British withdrawal from the country after the Peel Report, asked Slikowitz to prepare a plan for the military conquest of the whole of Palestine. According to the historians Walid Khalidi and Ahmad H. Sa'di, it was this Avnir Plan which provided a blueprint for future plans. The blueprint was refined in subsequent adjustments (A, B, C) before emerging in its final form over a decade later as Plan Dalet.[11][12]
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Another Wikipedia page goes into more detail as to what happened in 1948 in its article titled Nakba. Quoting from said article:
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The Nakba (Arabic: النكبة an-Nakbah, lit. 'The Catastrophe') was the ethnic cleansing[1] of Palestinians in Mandatory Palestine during the 1948 Palestine war through their violent displacement and dispossession of land, property and belongings, along with the destruction of their society, culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations.[2] The term is also used to described the ongoing persecution and displacement of Palestinians by Israel.[3] As a whole, it covers the shattering of Palestinian society and the long-running rejection of the right of return for Palestinian refugees and their descendants.[4][5][6][7]

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In early April 1948, the Israelis launched Plan Dalet, a large-scale offensive to capture land and empty it of Palestinian Arabs.[45] During the offensive, Israel captured and cleared land that was allocated to the Palestinians by the UN partition resolution.[46] Over 200 villages were destroyed during this period.[47] Massacres and expulsions continued,[48] including at Deir Yassin (9 April 1948).[49] Arab urban neighborhoods in Tiberias (18 April), Haifa (23 April), West Jerusalem (24 April), Acre (6-18 May), Safed (10 May), and Jaffa (13 May) were depopulated.[50] Israel began engaging in biological warfare in April, poisoning the water supplies of certain towns and villages, including a successful operation that caused a typhoid epidemic in Acre in early May, and an unsuccessful attempt in Gaza that was foiled by the Egyptians in late May.[51]
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It was only -after- these atrocities that the Arab states went to war with Israel. Continuing from the same article:

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Under intense public anger over Palestinian losses in April, and seeking to take Palestinian territory for themselves in order to counter the Israeli-Jordanian deal, the remaining Arab League states decided in late April and early May to enter the war after the British left.[52] However, the armies of the newly-independent Arab League states were still weak and unprepared for war,[53] and none of the Arab League states were interested in the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Amin al-Husseini at its head. Neither the expansionist King Abdullah I of Jordan nor the British wanted the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.[54] On 14 May, the Mandate formally ended, the last British troops left, and Israel declared independence.[55] By that time, Palestinian society was destroyed and over 300,000 Palestinians had been expelled or fled.[56]

May 1948 – Oct 1948

On 15 May, Arab League armies entered the territory of former Mandatory Palestine, beginning the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the second half of the 1948 Palestine war.[57] Most of the violence up to that point occurred in and around urban centers, in the Israeli portion of the partitioned land, while British troops were still present.[58] After the end of the Mandate, Israel seized more land allocated to the Palestinians by the UN partition plan, and expulsions, massacres, and the destruction of villages in rural areas increased,[59] including the Tantura massacre (22-23 May).[60]

The first truce between Israel and the Arab League nations was signed in early June and lasted about a month.[61] In the summer of 1948, Israel began implementing anti-repatriation policies to prevent the return of Palestinians to their homes.[62] A Transfer Committee coordinated and supervised efforts to prevent Palestinian return, including the destruction of villages, resettlement of Arab villages with Jewish immigrants, confiscation of land, and the dissemination of propaganda discouraging return.[63] During the ten days of renewed fighting between Israel and the Arab states after the first truce, over 50,000 Palestinians were expelled from Lydda and Ramle (9-13 July).[64] A second truce was signed in mid-July and lasted until October.[61] During the two truces, Palestinians who returned to their homes or crops, labelled "infiltrators" by the Israelis, were killed or expelled.[65]

Oct 1948 – Jul 1949

Expulsions, massacres, and Israeli expansion continued in the autumn of 1948,[66] including the depopulation of Beersheba (21 October),[67] the al-Dawayima massacre (29 October),[68] and the Safsaf massacre (also 29 October).[69] That month, Israel converted the ad hoc military governates ruling over Palestinian Arabs in Israel into a formal military government that controlled nearly all aspects of their lives, including curfews, travel restrictions, employment and other economic restrictions, arbitrary detention and other punishments, and political control.[70] Martial law assisted Israeli efforts to find and expel or kill "infiltrators" in order to prevent Palestinians from repopulating their villages.[71]

Most of the fighting between Israel and the Arab states ended by the winter of 1948.[72] On 11 December 1948, the UN passed Resolution 194, resolving that Palestinians should be permitted to return to their homes and be compensated for lost or damaged property, and establishing the United Nations Conciliation Commission.[73] Armistices formally ending the war were signed between February and July 1949,[74] but massacres and expulsions of Palestinians continued in 1949 and beyond.[75]

By the end of the war, Palestine was divided and Palestinians were scattered.[76] Israel held about 78% of Palestine,[77] including the 55% allocated to it by the UN partition plan and about half of the land allocated for a Palestinian state.[78] The West Bank and Gaza Strip comprised the remaining half, and were now held by Jordan and Egypt, respectively.[79] The internationally-governed corpus separatum was divided between an Israeli-held West Jerusalem and a Jordanian-held East Jerusalem.[80] Israel with its expanded borders was admitted as a member to the United Nations in May 1949.[81] About 156,000 Palestinians remained under military rule in Israel, including many internally displaced persons.[82] The approximately 750,000 Palestinians who were expelled or fled from their homes were now living in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.[83] None were allowed to return.[84] No Palestinian state was created.[85]
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Now before 1967 these Arabs denied being Palestinian- in fact they Rioted due to the British referring to them as so.

If you could point me to an article that describes this, by all means. In the meantime, here's what Wikipedia's Nakba article has to say about the period between 1949 and 1966:
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Military governance period (1949–1966)

The Nakba continued after the end of the war in 1949.[3] Palestinians in Israel remained under strict military rule until 1966.[86] Israel prevented Palestinian refugees outside of Israel from returning.[87] Palestinians continued to be expelled, and more Palestinian towns and villages were destroyed, with new Israeli settlements established in their place.[88] Palestinian place names and the name "Palestine" itself were removed from maps and books.[89]

Sixty-nine Palestinians were killed in the 1953 Qibya massacre;[90] a few years later, 49 Palestinians were killed in the Kafr Qasim massacre, on the first day of the 1956 Suez Crisis.[91]
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As to what happened in 1967, from the same article:
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During the 1967 Six-Day War, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees were driven from the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. Most were driven into Jordan.[92] This has become known as al-Naksa (the "setback").[93] After the war, Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip.[94]
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The Grand Mufti of Mandatory Palestine sided with the Nazis during the war and they learnt a lot from the Nazi Propaganda Machine- even having an Arab division of the SS. The Antisemitic ideology is still alive and well in the region and is part of the reason the conflict continues.

I would say that the -main- reason the conflict continues is because of all the injustices that the Israeli government has done and continues to do to the Palestinian people.

 

[Scott]

In fairness to jews, not all of them are on the gaza slaughter bandwagon. Some articles on this:

‘Not in our name’: Jewish peace activists across the US call for immediate ceasefire and justice for Palestinians | CNN

‘Not in my Name’: how a new generation is divesting from Israeli apartheid | Mondoweiss

As to those Jews who do believe that what jewish people suffered during Nazi germany justifies what Israel is doing now, the irony is that they are essentially copying elements of the Nazi model. Wikipedia actually has an article on the subject that I found quite interesting:

Comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany | Wikipedia

A good paragraph in their article:
**
The Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz introduced the term "Judeo-Nazis." He argued that continued military occupation of the Palestinian territories would lead to the moral degradation of Israeli Defense Force (IDF), with individuals committing atrocities for state security interests.[18][19] In 1988, Holocaust survivor Yehuda Elkana warned that the tendency in Israel to see all potential threats as existential and all opponents as Nazis would lead to Nazi-like behavior by Jews.[20] During the First Intifada, historian Omer Bartov was enraged by Yitzhak Rabin's call to "break the bones" of Palestinians and wrote him a letter arguing that, based on Bartov's research, the IDF could be similarly brutalized as the German Army was during World War II.[21] One Israeli nationalist told Amos Oz that he did not care if Israel was called a Judeo-Nazi state, it was "better [to be] a living Judeo-Nazi than a dead saint."[22] In 2018, Noam Chomsky cited Leibowitz, arguing that he was right in his prediction that the occupation was producing Judeo-Nazis.[23]
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no shit. I didn't mean all jews.

I didn't think you did. However, I wanted to remove all doubt. Time and again, I've seen the danger of saying "jews" followed by some not good thing and then getting labelled as anti semitic. By making it clear that we don't mean -all- jews, we get rid of this problem.

 

[Kamala Trump]

I didn't think you did. However, I wanted to remove all doubt. Time and again, I've seen the danger of saying "jews" followed by some not good thing and then getting labelled as anti semitic. By making it clear that we don't mean -all- jews, we get rid of this problem.

I did say crazy Jews.


these crazy Jews. one would only think I meant all Jews IF one's own view of Jews is that they are all crazy.

ergo, the accuser only fingers themselves.

and don't get me started on that.

 

[Scott]

I didn't think you did. However, I wanted to remove all doubt. Time and again, I've seen the danger of saying "jews" followed by some not good thing and then getting labelled as anti semitic. By making it clear that we don't mean -all- jews, we get rid of this problem.

I did say crazy Jews.


these crazy Jews. one would only think I meant all Jews IF one's own view of Jews is that they are all crazy.

You didn't though. Quoting:

Jews get to keep reliving their ptsd on the rest of the world for eternity apparently, cuz never again.

 

[Kamala Trump]

You didn't though. Quoting:

oh well I meant the crazy Jews.

thanks for the correction.