Opinion | Don’t Turn Away From the Charges of Genocide Against Israel
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South Africa’s case before the International Court of Justice is crammed with evidence of breaches of the 1948 international genocide convention.

archive link: https://archive.is/LHa1Z

With the question of whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza now before the International Court of Justice, the Biden administration has struck a tone of glib dismissal.

Top Israeli political and military leaders have themselves helped to bolster the case against their government. The words of Israeli officials are being offered as evidence of intent: from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging Israelis to “remember” the Old Testament account of the carnage of Amalek (“Spare no one, but kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings,” reads one passage); to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowing that “Gaza won’t return to what it was before — we will eliminate everything”; to the minister of energy and infrastructure pledging, “They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave this world.” By speaking openly about destroying Gaza and dispersing its residents, Israeli leaders have publicized what has, in other cases of genocide, been hidden or denied.

  • DarkGamer
    2•5 months ago
    • That’s an opinion piece, it contends that genocide accusations rely on the premise that comments from far-right Israeli politicians represent Israel as a whole, and as such they should be removed from power, “to persuade the world that the deranged ideas they are spreading do not reflect reality.” It does not make the claim that Israel’s actions are in fact a genocide, rather it says that the claim does not reflect reality and the world must be persuaded of this.
    • Those links to other op-eds do not appear to be part of the article, rather they are navigation links to keep readers engaged with similar articles.
    • Equating Israeli behaviors with the Nazi genocide against Jews is literally Hamas’ social media strategy.