I haven't read the main text yet and will do so now. I'm sure it will help put this horror into better perspective, though the mass psychosis of Israeli society (and its US backers) is difficult to even contemplate. Regarding the means of carrying out this Israeli genocide, humanitarian organizations have stated (don't have the citations…
I haven't read the main text yet and will do so now. I'm sure it will help put this horror into better perspective, though the mass psychosis of Israeli society (and its US backers) is difficult to even contemplate. Regarding the means of carrying out this Israeli genocide, humanitarian organizations have stated (don't have the citations in front of me) that the deliberate infliction of starvation and disease may ultimately surpass the use of massive "dumb" bombs in causing deaths among the trapped people of Gaza. As there is no safe place from the unrelenting US-provided bombs, nor any escape from the ravages of disease and starvation, truly every life in Gaza is at great risk - every one in this prison could be killed unless some force (God knows what that could be at this point) stops it.
I agree: in the long run, which the Israeli perpetrators clearly want to make happen, starvation and promoting diseases are likely to be even more murderous than the mass bombing. I see only one way out: military intervention against Israel, as the Genocide Convention really demands. I know how unlikely that is, for now.
I agree that it seems only force can stop this horror. International organizations and courts continue to be passive bystanders, offering only words of outrage and a trickle of aid trucks -all while their courageous workers have been killed at an unprecedented scale by Israel -with its usual impunity. One of the lawyers representing South Africa at the ICJ hearing today, Blinne Ni Ghralaigh, who made the most eloquent and impassioned (in a decorous way of course) remarks of all the distinguished advocates I thought, said the following about the future relevancy of international law in the context of the unfolding Gaza genocide:
"The imminent risk of death, harm and destruction that Palestinians in Gaza face today, and that they risk every day during the pendency of these proceedings, on any view justifies — indeed compels — the indication of provisional measures. Some might say that the very reputation of international law — its ability and willingness to bind and to protect all peoples equally — hangs in the balance."
I haven't read the main text yet and will do so now. I'm sure it will help put this horror into better perspective, though the mass psychosis of Israeli society (and its US backers) is difficult to even contemplate. Regarding the means of carrying out this Israeli genocide, humanitarian organizations have stated (don't have the citations in front of me) that the deliberate infliction of starvation and disease may ultimately surpass the use of massive "dumb" bombs in causing deaths among the trapped people of Gaza. As there is no safe place from the unrelenting US-provided bombs, nor any escape from the ravages of disease and starvation, truly every life in Gaza is at great risk - every one in this prison could be killed unless some force (God knows what that could be at this point) stops it.
I agree: in the long run, which the Israeli perpetrators clearly want to make happen, starvation and promoting diseases are likely to be even more murderous than the mass bombing. I see only one way out: military intervention against Israel, as the Genocide Convention really demands. I know how unlikely that is, for now.
I agree that it seems only force can stop this horror. International organizations and courts continue to be passive bystanders, offering only words of outrage and a trickle of aid trucks -all while their courageous workers have been killed at an unprecedented scale by Israel -with its usual impunity. One of the lawyers representing South Africa at the ICJ hearing today, Blinne Ni Ghralaigh, who made the most eloquent and impassioned (in a decorous way of course) remarks of all the distinguished advocates I thought, said the following about the future relevancy of international law in the context of the unfolding Gaza genocide:
"The imminent risk of death, harm and destruction that Palestinians in Gaza face today, and that they risk every day during the pendency of these proceedings, on any view justifies — indeed compels — the indication of provisional measures. Some might say that the very reputation of international law — its ability and willingness to bind and to protect all peoples equally — hangs in the balance."