What it all means
Trita Parsi, executive vice president for the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Washington-based think tank, called it “a devastating blow to Israel’s global standing.”
What the ICJ ruled
The court in the Dutch city of The Hague flatly rejected Israel’s request to toss out the case, giving an unflinching account of the war so far.
Meanwhile it gave the Israeli government six legally binding orders to follow while the likely lengthy process plays out. Israel can easily ignore these imperatives — the ICJ has no real enforcement mechanism — although it has previously argued it is complying with all of these anyway.
Many of the measures were approved by an overwhelming majority of the judges, with an Israeli judge even voting in favor of two of the half dozen diktats imposed.
A panel of 17 judges agreed that the court, based in The Hague, has jurisdiction to hear South Africa’s case, and passed seven “emergency measures” requested by Pretoria. In addition to demanding that Israel refrain from committing genocide, the judges ordered the Jewish state to punish members of its military who commit genocidal acts, as well as officials who publicly call for the genocide of the Palestinians. Israel must also preserve evidence of any genocidal acts already committed, the ruling stated.
The judges also ruled that Israel “shall take immediate and effective measures to address adverse conditions to life in the Gaza Strip.” West Jerusalem was further ordered to report back to the court in a month with an update on what it is doing to comply with these measures.
ICJ President Judge Joan E. Donoghue told Israel to “prevent the commission of all acts” of genocide by its forces, and “punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide” by politicians and other public figures. She said “urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance” must be allowed in Gaza. And she ordered Israel to “prevent the destruction” of evidence related to the case. Israel must also submit a report within one month detailing everything it’s doing to comply.
“The court considers that the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is at serious risk of deteriorating further before the court renders its final judgment,” Donoghue told the hearing, which was streamed online and eagerly anticipated around the world.
Naledi Pandor, the South African Minister of Foreign affairs, attended the ICJ yesterday and was utterly unhappy that the ICJ did not order a ceasefire in Gaza.
Israel does not have the right to “defend itself” because it shouldn’t be there in the first place. Israel shouldn’t be there in the first place as it was built on Palestinian land.
Furthermore, if the jews say they are a religion, then should there also be a Catholic homeland created by driving someone off their land, or a Protestant homeland, too? How about a Buddhist homeland, or a Shia Muslim homeland?
There are Palestinians who still have the keys to their grandparents’ and great-grandparents’ homes that the Israelis stole from them, even burning down their olive groves. To say that it has a right to defend itself is like saying that squatters have the right to defend themselves against your efforts to get them out of your house.
This is just the first stage of the case against Israel brought by South Africa. And we see that by being a member of BRICS, with Russia and China as the very powerful key members, South Africa is no longer afraid of Jewmerica.
The case now promises to be a complex, years-long legal battle. Friday was about whether the court felt it had jurisdiction — it said yes — and its answer to South Africa’s request to impose emergency “provisional measures” — all of which it accepted except for an immediate cease-fire.
Israel could ignore the ruling as others have before, for example Russia’s flouting of an ICJ order in 2022 to halt its war in Ukraine. The U.S., Israel’s closest ally and backer, would likely veto any attempt to impose sanctions on Israel at the U.N. Security Council,.
The whole premise behind jews ousting the Palestinians in 1948 was and is insane:
“We Jews have written a book saying God chose us to be His people, and our book, which WE wrote, also claims that Yahweh gave us Palestine, though others were living there.”
Abraham was actually no Palestinian at all; he was from Ur in what is now called Iraq!
This would be like modern Italians showing up in modern England and saying “By the will of Mars and Jupiter, England became part of OUR Roman Empire.
So you English are squatting on OUR Roman land, and you have to immediately abandon your homes, farms and businesses without any compensation and leave, or we will SHOOT YOU.”
Imagine if you or I were to say that, or just “I am God’s Chosen Person”?
The cops would cuff you, put you in a squad car, and drive you as a severely delusional, mentally ill person, right to a psychiatric hospital!
And what evidence is there for being God’s People in our own era?
Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, gulag head Kaganovich, Bernie Madoff, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Sam Bankman-Fried, Poroshenko, Zelensky (who has caused the deaths of 500,000 Ukrainian soldiers for nothing), State Department warmonger Victoria Nuland…. thugs!
This condemnation is yet another propicious event for my movement!
I thank a French comrade for yet another HUGE and wonderful donation!
Unless I am mistaken, the American government is legally forbidden to give money to foreign powers that have committed genocide.
They were committing genocide on Palestinians in 1,000 BC already, sawing them asunder, and burning them alive.
From the Holy Bible:
The prophet Samuel tells us how the “humanitarian” race in the ecstatic rapture of victory dealt with its defeated enemies:
“And he brought forth the people that were therein (in the Ammonite city of Rabbah—translator) and put them under saws and under harrows of iron and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln; and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.” (2 Samuel 12:31.)