Opinion | Don’t Turn Away From the Charges of Genocide Against Israel
www.nytimes.com
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.

  • roastedDeflatorOP
    0•5 months ago

    Cool, it has links to the primary source there as well, but I thought it would be less useful to link that as I assume you don’t read Arabic.

    What you say does not make any sense in the context of this conversation. I’m out.

    [gentle reminder of a gentle text on the topic of upvoting oneself]

    edit: the strikethrough

    • DarkGamer
      1•5 months ago

      I’m sorry you seem to be confused by the notion of citations in the form of links to primary sources.

      Haters gonna hate. (I’m upvoting this post, too.)