„[…] The Biden administration is playing a very cynical game. It insists it is trying to halt what, by its own admission, is Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of Palestinians, while bypassing Congress to speed up the supply of weapons to Israel, including “dumb” bombs. It insists it wants the fighting in Gaza to end while it vetoes ceasefire resolutions at the U.N. It insists it upholds the rule of law while it subverts the legal mechanism that can halt the genocide. […]“

„[…] Genocide is not a political problem. It is a moral one. We cannot, no matter what the cost, support those who commit or are accomplices to genocide. Genocide is the crime of all crimes. It is the purest expression of evil. We must stand unequivocally with Palestinians and the jurists from South Africa. We must demand justice. We must hold Biden accountable for the genocide in Gaza. […]“

The Case for Genocide

The International Court of Justice may be all that stands between the Palestinians in Gaza and genocide.

By Chris Hedges

January 12, 2024

The exhaustive 84-page brief submitted by South Africa to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) charging Israel with genocide is hard to refute. Israel’s campaign of indiscriminate killing, wholesale destruction of infrastructure, including housing, hospitals and water treatment plants, along with its use of starvation as a weapon, accompanied by genocidal rhetoric from its political and military leaders who speak of destroying Gaza and ethnically cleansing the 2.3 million Palestinians, makes a strong case against Israel for genocide.

Israel’s smearing of South Africa as “the legal arm” of Hamas exemplifies the bankruptcy of its defense, a smear replicated by those who claim that demonstrations held to call for a ceasefire and protect Palestinian human rights are “anti-Semitic.” Israel, its genocide live streamed to the world, has no substantial counter argument.

But that does not mean the judges on the court will rule in South Africa’s favor. The pressure the U.S. will bring – Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called the South African charges “meritless” – on the judges, drawn from the member states of the U.N., will be intense.

Read more: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-case-for-genocide

PDF: CH12.1.2024

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See also

APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS

To the Registrar of the International Court of Justice, the undersigned, being duly authorised by the Government of the Republic of South Africa, state as follows:

In accordance with Articles 36 (1) and 40 of the Statute of the Court and Article 38 of the Rules of Court, I have the honour to submit this Application instituting proceedings in the name of the Republic of South Africa (“South Africa”) against the State of Israel (“Israel”). Pursuant to Article 41 of the Statute, the Application includes a request that the Court indicate provisional measures to protect the rights invoked herein from imminent and irreparable loss. […]

December 28, 2023

https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf

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South Africa presents its case against Israel at the ICJ

January 11, 2024

https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11/k11gf661b3?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Ryan%20Grim%20Newsletter

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Israel presents its case at the ICJ

January 12, 2024

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UK’s chief rabbi gives his blessing to war crimes in Gaza

By Jonathan Cook

January 11, 2024

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2024-01-11/uk-chief-rabbi-war-crimes-gaza/

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BRICS member South Africa takes Zionism to court

Pretoria’s genocide case against Israel is crucial, not just to stop Tel Aviv’s carnage in Gaza, but to plant the first flag of multipolarism in the globe’s courtrooms: this is the first case of many that will seek to halt western impunity and restore international law as envisioned in the UN Charter.

By Pepe Escobar

January 10, 2024

https://new.thecradle.co/articles/brics-member-south-africa-takes-zionism-to-court

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The Chris Hedges Report with Israeli historian Ilan Pappé on Israel’s end game in Gaza and the future of the Israeli apartheid state

By Chris Hedges

January 5, 2023

https://afsaneyebahar.com/2024/01/05/20697769/

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