Court in Case orders Israel to take ‘all’ measures to avoid further genocide, as South Africa strikes huge blow for Palestinians and humanity
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that at least some (!) of Israel’s actions in Gaza fall under the provisions of the Genocide Convention and that Israel must take a list of measures to prevent further genocide, including immediate, ongoing and adequate humanitarian relief, which South Africa says must amount to a ceasefire order to allow relief to reach those who need it, and the prevention of any attempts to destroy evidence of genocide. Israel must return to the ICJ in a month with a report on what it has done to comply with the orders.
The court also threw out Israel’s request for the case to be taken off the genocide case list.
The rulings were by a huge majority – on two of the orders, even the Israeli judge on the ICJ, a hard-line Zionist, voted against Israel. No matter how Netanyahu’s regime tries to spin it, Israel is now on trial for genocide.
South Africa, in bringing the case, has struck a huge blow for Palestinians, for justice and for humanity.
Of course, an Israeli regime that has slaughtered tens of thousands of civilians, mostly women and children, has flattened hospitals, schools and homes and conducted mass arrests and summary executions is unlikely to listen, but other countries now have an unequivocal duty to act to prevent Israel’s genocide.
The court did not order a complete halt to military operations in Gaza, but this is not the victory that Israel has tried to claim. As Ali Abunimah pointed out, the language of ‘ceasefire’ is not applicable in a one-sided slaughter:
And the court has ordered Israel to stop killing Palestinians:
But how big a blow to Israel this judgment represents can be seen in the furious, spitting reaction of the regime and it’s spokespeople to it.
From now on, any government or so-called ‘opposition’ which, like the US and UK, now provides assistance or cover to the Israelis in their mass slaughter of innocents is now expressly on the wrong side of international law.
So toxic is international realpolitik that this will not stop them, but their already shredded claims to stand for order or democracy are now dust. Shame on them forever.
Congratulations South Africa. Solidarity with the people of Palestine and all who stand with and for justice and humanity.
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Just a shame that benny & co won’t hang.
To all the starmeroids who kept on denying. Oh dear me. What now????
Well, as Claudia Webbe seems to have implied……
https://skwawkbox.org/2024/01/26/webbe-salutes-south-africa-for-walking-in-the-steps-of-mandela-and-tutu-for-gaza/
….if the Labour Party as an organisational entity, its individual employees, elected representatives, members and activists do not wish to fall foul of Article 25 of the ICC Rome Statute concerning the aiding and abetting of War Crimes they are going to have to do a rapid 180 degree policy turn immediately in regards support for the Israeli Genocide and all actions by the UK Government linked to supporting that Genocide – including the bombing of Yemen.
Although for some who have already publicly committed and declared their support for the War Crimes it should already be too late. Those who have already done so in the LP – just as with those within the UK Government – should be pursued relentlessly by all means possible.
No hiding place. No safe space. They need to be hounded out of the Party.
Thank you South Africa.
Solidarity with Palestine !
There is a plausible and strong case that Israel is undertaking genocide in Gaza in the judgement of at least 15 of 17 judges at the International Court of Justice.
Just wondering, will Keir Starmer use his forensic brain to explain why the ICJ ruling is wrong (and probably anti-Semitic)?
Wrong side of history, guys.
Just wondering, will Keir Starmer use his forensic brain to explain why the ICJ ruling is wrong (and probably anti-Semitic
Useless, slimy, deadbeat twunt can’t even tell you what constitutes the working classes, there’s NO WAY he’s gonna attempt to contradict the ICJ and have his arse served to him…again.
Even dummkopf-schmitt got something half-right when he referred to keef as a second rate lawyer (keef’s not even Lionel Hutz rate).
God, but I despise that cuboid-headed greasy gobshite and all he stands for.
On a side note, I see bliars renewing his call for ID cards; this time backed by little willy hague.
..So you KNOW what’s coming next from keef. And I’ve been warning about it since I was unfortunate enough to be aware of his tenure as an MP.
Vote keef = get staasi.
I think the ruling is bitter sweet. Whilst it doesn’t call for an immediate ceasefire, it accepts all of SAs argument and orders emergency measures for Israel and its allies to prevent genocidal acts. Its important that the public perception of these orders see them as a victory ( as SA does ) to counter the MSN particularly the BBC keen to play down the landmark impact of this ruling. Israel now has to report Monthly to the ICJ on how they have taken measures. This should also apply to the US, UK and Europe who are also on trial!
“A “ceasefire” is what you demand in an armed conflict. In a genocide you demand an immediate end to all genocidal acts and that is exactly what the ICJ ordered with immediate effect. Please stop helping “Israel” spin its historic defeat as a win” – Ali Abunimah, founder Electronic Intifada (https://electronicintifada.net/)
The full document can be found here:
https://icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240126-ord-01-00-en.pdf
JVL posted a couple of videos on their website yesterday under the heading ‘Israel army spokepeople lie and deny’, the first of which is an ITV New At Ten clip (9mins) from a couple of days ago showing a group of five Palestinian men waving a white flag and holding up their hands, and then the IDF shooting at them and killing one of them. And the one they shot and killed just happened to be the one the ITV reporter had just spoken to briefly.
And in the second one (14mins 40secs) Novara Media, shows footage of the Israeli Government Spokesman, Eylon Levy lying repeatedly in interviews with Victoria Derbyshire and Krishnan Guru-Murthy.
Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar comment.
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/israel-army-spokepeople-lie-and-deny/
Thank you South Africa for standing up for humanity and against inhumanity.
An interview with the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert:
“What Caused the Terrorist Attacks Was Arrogance”………..
“I think that Israel has to declare now, today, that at the end of the military campaign, it will pull out of Gaza. We need the Europeans and the Americans to send a military intervention force to Gaza for the interim period because the Arabs and the Palestinians will not come “………
“The bitterness and disappointment [in Israel] will build up into a rage that will erupt like a vulcano. And at the peak of it, Bibi will not be prime minister anymore.”
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/former-israeli-prime-minister-ehud-olmert-what-caused-the-terrorist-attacks-was-arrogance-a-eb6f8e0f-fc97-42c9-b3fb-7b94358963ac
Herr Flick
How does the Fuhrer feel about one of his greatest achievements ‘Jews Committing Genocide ‘
He must be ever so proud, just an ordinary working class human rights lawyer who is now complicit in crimes against humanity
Can I personally acknowledge his unequivocal support for Israel, the man is nothing If not steadfast
Can’t wait for him testify at the Hague, the first British PM in the Dock at the ICJ, tell him not to forget to take his Union Jack with him, ever the patriot
He could also take the former PM and War Criminal, they might do a 241
Regards
For the record you are not part of the Jewish Community if you support Genocide, there can now never be a Jewish State and resolution of Palestinian rights should now be imposed by the UN and enforced by all the major powers
Only that can begin to make reparations to the Palestinian and Jewish Communities for the atrocities committed by Israel and its supporters
and, Doug, the greatest atrocities, has to include Zionism’s destruction of The GE17-Hope that was created and embodied (briefly) by Jeremy Corbyn.
Imagine if he were still a member of the Privy Council: ‘Covid19’ wouldn’t even have become the carefully orchestrated deceit that it became as soon as JC was no-longer a member of the Privy Council, i.e. covid19, was made a year late by him: Capitalism’s post 2008 decline into ‘platform techno-feudamism’ (look up Yannis Veroufakis on techno-feudalism on utube)) needed a democratic socialist Labour party to help the working class through the End-days of capitalism (when all that is solid melts into air…. and amazon and facebook and google and Apple become the embodiment of a ‘New World Order’) and our food system and health system are destroyed by tPtB (because they can).
Veroufakis’ macro-economic analysis of the the ‘banking crisis’ and all that has followed explains the covid “con”, Ukraine, Gaza and – most chillingly of all – Keir Rodney Starmer.
qwertboi – Oh dear
I’ll file that alongside your previous assertions about Covid-19 and mRNA vaccines.
qwertboi
The Law of Diminishing returns says its only a matter of time before they disappear up their own backsides
Biden actually summed it up when he said of the current Israeli government ‘ you can’t work with these guys’
So the ICJ guidance is actually America’s off ramp
The Beltway Oligarchs and their me-too marionettes are not interested in off ramps.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-finland-italy-join-us-in-halt-of-unrwa-funds-for-alleged-role-in-oct-7-massacre/
On the basis of allegations made by the Zionist Israeli Regime that a number of UNWRA staff were supposedly actively involved with the Hamas operation on October 7th 2023 the Genocide supporting cabal of usual suspects have immediately stopped funding to the UN body.
This within hours of the allegations being made with no testing of those allegations via proper due process. How does anyone know the truth or otherwise of these allegations without their veracity being properly tested with substantiating evidence through proper due process?
Yet, once again, mirroring the post-modernist ‘rules based order’ an allegation is automatically considered to equate to a guilty verdict without any due process or testing of evidence. Questions such as how the information from which this allegation originates – was it via torture or simply made up as so much else is on the basis of subjective individual whims – are not even considered as an after thought.
Its not as though we have not witnessed and experienced this farce before on numerous occasions. From people being sacked from their employment for wrongthink to the internal disciplinary procedures of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition against its own members to the false accusations of antisemitism against anyone who – including members of the Jewish Community – refuses to cry uncle and seek a practicable path to the failed and non-credible TINA.
This is mob rule running rampant at every level and the only way the chaos it creates is going to end is to enforce due process on all those involved – including their paid scribes and cheerleaders – and subsequently apply the same verdict as that applied at Nuremburg. Only this time letting no one through the net for factional or sectarian convenience.
Doug –
As DH points out below, America/Biden doesn’t want an ‘off ramp’from facilitating genocide. Jonathan Cook reasons that the very wording of the ICJ genocide rulings was carefully constructed to ensure Biden (and his Empire) didn’t reject the ICJ conclusion.
Globo capitalism (Biden, the UK Establishment and Sir Keir Rodney Starmer) will never ‘disappear up their own backsides’ as long as the (UK/USA) embedded press and FPTP flourish!
The withdrawal of UNHRA funding is by definition ‘collective punishment ‘ of the Palestinians, those responsible are now complicit in the Genocide
The Rest of the World is not going to let any of this go, there will be so many legal cases launched and it will only take one to be successful to breach the dam
Dead men walking
What happens to Fascists in the end, genius would be to stop and crawl back under their rocks, take the money and run
I agree history tells us they won’t stop
My prediction has always been, those who want Peace and Prosperity, those behind the new ‘Silk Road’ will triumph, I can’t see what the Yanks and the Banks can do to stop the inevitable shift to a multi polar world
The Fascists have already financially bankrupted their countries, now they have morally bankrupted their electorates
Mandemic, Nazis in Ukraine and Israel, doubling the cost of living, they think they are winning, I think they are proper fucked