I was just catching up on ICJ #192, South Africa v Israel Genocide in the Gaza Strip, reading Palestine’s intervention (3 June 2024) when I came to this
::: spoiler text of the above, relevant part only, and the missing second footnote > 19. Strikingly, on 22 September 2023, Israel’s Prime Minister displayed to the United > Nations General Assembly a map of the “new Middle East” that showed Israel > consisting not only of Israel’s territorial boundaries but including all the territory > constituting the State of Palestine40 making explicit what had long been overlooked, > namely, that Israel has legislated its denial of the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights, > and its refusal to recognize the right of the Palestinian people to exist on their ancestral > lands. 41 It was actually much more than an outrageous denial of the right of the > Palestinian people to self-determination. It was a clear manifestation, only weeks > before Israel’s genocidal war, of its intent to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole > or in part.41 > > 40 https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/09/1141302, minutes 10: 12 to 11 :53. > > 41 See: Basic Law: Israel-The Nation State of the Jewish People, 19 July 2018, available at: > https://main.knesset.gov.il/EN/activity/documents/BasicLawsPDF/BasicLawNationState.pdf ___ ::: Footnote #40: Israel on the cusp of historic peace with Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu announces at UN. September 2023. Look at this:
While it is somewhat funny the delay between his pauses for applause and when the clapping actually starts (bb looking annoyed lol), it’s still a horrible thing and I’ve not watched the whole thing. I would read a transcription if I found it. Immediately after this bit with the map he starts complaining about how everyone is antisemitic against them, causing all their woes. I can’t provide much analysis, hopefully someone else can, but boy there’s gotta be something in there. Footnote #41 I can’t access due to geoblocking but the document is available elsewhere, e.g. Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People.

