Day 2 of the proceedings.
[LegalInsurrection] The entire proceeding is a farce. South Africa, through a highly distorted set of accusations, doesn’t seek to prevent genocide, it seeks to enable genocide against Jews by preventing Israel from defending itself.South Africa’s politicians are closely aligned with Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,..., so it’s not surprising that South Africa took it on itself to bring a claim of Genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel for Israel defending itself against the Hamas, Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, and Paleostinian "civilians" who murdered, tortured, sexually mutilated, and raped Israelis and foreigners on October 7.
The entire proceeding is a farce. South Africa seeks to weaponize the ICJ so that Hamas and other Islamist Death Eaters can commit genocide against Jews. It’s a complete inversion of the purpose of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the role of the ICJ — South Africa doesn’t seek to prevent genocide, it seeks to enable genocide against Jews by preventing Israel from defending itself and making sure the butchers of October 7 can never do it again — and they have promised to do it again. South Africa seeks extraordinary "provisional remedies" ordering Israel to cease military actions.
Just because the charge of Genocide is a farce doesn’t mean Israel will prevail at the ICJ, which serves under the tutelage of the U.N. General Assembly. The Judges have superficially impressive credentials, and on any other issue perhaps that would matter. But as to Israel, is a Judge from Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
really going to rule against Hamas? Same with Judges from Russia, China, Somalia, and several other countries hostile to Israel.
It’s basically a U.N. General Assembly vote, where you keep hoping they will do the right thing, but they never do. Maybe this time will be different because the nationality of Judges from countries hostile to Israel is not as skewed as in the overall General Assembly, but I’m not hopeful.
Key points from Israel’s opening statement to the court can be read at the link.
Germany is intervening on the side of Israel:Tweets can be seen at the link.
The ICJ being a function of the General Assembly, has limited power to implement anything. But even the finding of Genocide, though without basis, would be another bullet in the guns of the fake human rights activists and genocidal terrorists and governments to use against Israel.South Africa, which filed the lawsuit at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in December, asked judges yesterday to impose emergency measures ordering Israel to immediately halt the offensive.
Israel rejects the accusations of genocide as baseless and says South Africa was acting as a mouthpiece for the Hamas terror group that seeks to eliminate the Jewish state. The IDF is targeting Hamas terrorists, not Palestinian civilians, Jerusalem says.
The 1948 Genocide Convention, enacted in the wake of the mass murder of Jews in the Nazi Holocaust, defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”
The court is expected to rule on possible emergency measures later this month but will not rule at that time on the genocide allegations with those proceedings potentially taking years.
The ICJ’s decisions are final and without appeal, but the court has no way to enforce them.
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