People who don’t care about genocide victims are anything but humanist. For you to see such unnecessary and great suffering, and be apathetic to it, you must have some serious issues.
On 26 January 2024, the ICJ said that it was plausible that Israel had breached the Genocide Convention. As an emergency measure, it ordered Israel ensure that its army refrained from genocidal acts against Palestinians.
The ICJ reported, as part of its decisions in March and May, that the situation in Gaza had deteriorated and that Israel had failed to abide by its order in January.
So, when we look at the actions taken, the dropping of thousands and thousands of bombs in a couple of days, including phosphorus bombs, as we heard, on one of the most densely populated areas around the world, together with these proclamations of intent, this indeed constitutes genocidal killing, which is the first act, according to the convention, of genocide. And Israel, I must say, is also perpetrating act number two and three — that is, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and creating condition designed to bring about the destruction of the group by cutting off water, food, supply of energy, bombing hospitals, ordering the fast evictions of hospitals, which the World Health Organization has declared to be, quote, “a death sentence.” So, we’re seeing the combination of genocidal acts with special intent. This is indeed a textbook case of genocide.
More than 800 scholars of international law and genocide have signed a public statement arguing that the Israeli military may be committing genocidal acts against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as the total siege and relentless airstrikes continue to inflict devastation on the occupied territory.
An independent United Nations expert warned Monday that “Israel’s genocidal violence risks leaking out of Gaza and into the occupied Palestinian territory as a whole” as Western governments, corporations, and other institutions keep up their support for the Israeli military, which stands accused of grave war crimes in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Our documentation encompasses over 500 incitements of violence and genocidal incitement, appearing in the forms of social media posts, television interviews, and official statements from Israeli politicians, army personnel, journalists, and other influential personalities.
I appreciate this good faith response. These aren’t bad sources and I’ve gone through some of this material several months ago when making my mind up about this, my position is pretty in line with this scholar quoted in your TIME article:
David Simon, director of the genocide studies program at Yale University, says that Israel has only explicitly said they want to exterminate Hamas, and has not directly stated intent to “destroy a religious, ethnic or racial group.” Simon says it’s possible a court could conclude that either Hamas or some elements of the Israel Defense Force (IDF) could be found guilty of committing an act of genocide, but “it’s certainly not textbook in that connecting the intent to destroy ethnic group as such is difficult.”
Nonetheless I do agree that the IDF has committed multiple war crimes during the Israel-Hamas War, going back to its beginning when their besieged Gaza, for which Israel must be held accountable.
People who don’t care about genocide victims are anything but humanist. For you to see such unnecessary and great suffering, and be apathetic to it, you must have some serious issues.
What genocide?
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I appreciate this good faith response. These aren’t bad sources and I’ve gone through some of this material several months ago when making my mind up about this, my position is pretty in line with this scholar quoted in your TIME article:
Nonetheless I do agree that the IDF has committed multiple war crimes during the Israel-Hamas War, going back to its beginning when their besieged Gaza, for which Israel must be held accountable.