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Ruling that the Palestinians are a protected class under the Genocide conventions is pretty big though...
From the live thread:
"7m ago 07.43 EST International Court of Justice orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza Judge Donoghue says the court has decided that Israel must “take all measures within its its power” to prevent all acts within the scope of the genocide convention.
She adds that Israel must ensure “with immediate effect” that its forces do not commit any of the act in the genocide convention.
Israel must also take immediate measures to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza."
and:
"14m ago 07.37 EST ICJ recognises right of Palestinians in Gaza to be protected from acts of genocide Judge Donoghue, speaking now at the ICJ, said at least some rights sought by South Africa in its genocide case against Israel’s war in Gaza are plausible. She said: “A link exists between the rights claimed by South Africa that the court has found plausible and at least some of the provisional measures requested.”
With the reading still ongoing, the court said it recognises the right of Palestinians in Gaza to be protected from acts of genocide. Palestinians appear to be a protected group under the genocide convention, the court said.
Friday’s ruling at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) does not deal with the core accusation of the case – whether genocide occurred – but will focus on the urgent intervention sought by South Africa."
Also, statements by Israel are pretty fucking damning IMO:
"20m ago 07.33 EST Judge Donoghue is detailing comments made by Israeli officials during the war, including:
Defence minister Yoav Gallant saying he had ordered “complete siege” of Gaza City”, and later said “we will eliminate everything” and that Israel was fighting “human animals”.
President Isaac Herzog saying, “It’s an entire nation out there that is responsible”."
So is saying that we shouldn’t kill innocent humans ‘A big deal’
Was the world up till now thinking that Palestinians are not humans?
Are only Jews protected under the genocide convention?
What the fuck is going on?
I know you're being sarcastic, but yeah. The situation is so dire that having someone at least come out and say "This is wrong" is a net improvement.
Israel argued that because Jews were affected by a genocide, Israel is therefore unable to commit it themselves.
Makes sense, pretty reasonable of Israel
The tl;dr is:
Internet warriors distorted reality and made you believe self-defense is genocide. Although terrible, what the Palestinians are experiencing right now is nothing like what the Jews experienced in world war II, which is what the genocide statutes were written to address. Were they being forced into trains and worked to death or put into gas chambers, I guarantee you they would apply.
Are you really saying we should go holocaust level before anyone should take action?
I'm saying collateral damage is not genocide.
‘Wait until enough Palestinians are killed before punishing Israel’
Wait until the legal definition applies before punishing people for breaking the law.
Who applies the legal definition before punishment for breaking the law?
Oh, right. International orgs like the International Court of Justice.
Cutting off food water and power to the populace while preventing humanitarian aid is deliberate and is in no way collateral damage you fucking ghoul
You need help, bro. Read the article.
Back at your murder apologist trolling again, I see
Palestinians are a national group and should qualify under the statutes, I didn't think that was ever under question. Hamas, however, is a political group and therefore not protected. If those Israeli statements refer to them, I don't believe they violate any statutes.
If this referred to Hamas militants, not Palestinians in general, it is not incitement to genocide.
An entire nation did in fact elect Hamas to power and to this day they enjoy popular support among Palestinians, which would in fact make them responsible for everything that followed from their leadership. Pointing this out is not incitement to violence against them.
The phrases "he had ordered 'complete siege' of Gaza City”, and later said “we will eliminate everything” sure doesn't make it sound like they are interested in limiting it to Hamas.
The siege is a war crime and most of the statements are straight genocidal. The Gallant quotes seem to have been from a poor translation by Bloomberg that spread everywhere -- and used as evidence at the ICJ. They issued a correction a few days ago. He said "Gaza won't return to what it was before. There will be no Hamas. We will eliminate everything." That entire middle sentence was missing originally. He also said, "We are fighting human animals. This is the ISIS of Gaza."
When Bibi comes out and outright says "in the future, the state of Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea" or alternatly "must have security control over the entire territory west of the Jordan River" it's hard to argue any other intent.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/netanyahu-from-river-sea-israel-control-1234949408/
Everything, not everyone. It sounds like he's referring to destroying infrastructure, not people, but I'm not in his head so I could be wrong.
If your intent is to "eliminate everything", that's including non military targets, and would fall under Article II of the Genocide Convention:
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
"In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
a. Killing members of the group;
b. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
c. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
d. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
e. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
How dare you bring facts?
That's assuming that he was being 100% literal. Even if he was, Hamas uses civilian infrastructure thereby making non-military targets into legal military targets. In this context, "eliminating everything," doesn't necessarily mean destroying protected sites illegally.
More importantly, when it comes to operations and not merely statements, it's very clear that Israel is quite selective about choosing targets, and they care if they are legal or not, they even built an AI for this purpose. They go to great lengths to try and minimize civilian deaths during their operations, taking far more precautions than I'm aware that any other country does. Info on how the IDF does this despite Hamas hiding among civilians can be found here.
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Are "human animals" things or ones?
Except Hamas is the excuse and was never the real target. The real target are and always have been the Palestinian people.
The popularity of Hamas is a consequence of 70+ years of subjugation under control of the settlers. The genocide of Palestinians didn't start 100+ days ago; it started with the Nakba.
Perhaps it seems that way because of the popular support of Hamas and intifada in Palestine, the fact that Hamas is comprised of Palestinians, and because they hide among civilians to maximize collateral damage.
And why did the Nakba happen? All the jew murdering. Jews started out legally buying lands until they were murdered and genocided and ethnically cleansed by Arab nationalists and neighboring Arab countries allied with Palestine. It's incredible you see the constant aggressors as the victims.
This is what happened when the shoe was on the other foot:
Yet somehow Israel is the bad guy and must be restrained, It is Israel who is genocidal for defending themselves, not the explicitly genocidal Hamas, not the constantly belligerent terrorists next door who target civilians and want to destroy Israel in whole in or in part.
And that somehow justifies the displacement and genocide of the Palestinian people.
Because it's the Settlers that are commiting genocide.
Your quote from the Jordanian commander dates to after the Nakba. There was significant intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine because of the mismanagement of Jewish migration by Britain, and escalating tensions from the "legal" land purchases you mentioned that had been occurring since the late 1800s. Yes, Jews attempted to purchase and settle uninhabited land, but the fact is big chunks of the land purchased were misappropriated under the Ottoman Land Code, and European Jews frequently expelled (by force if the implication wasn't clear) the Arab Muslims they found living on it, who may have had no idea it was sold out from under them.
Cope and justification.