Anti-Israel farce in the International Court of Justice
Orwell could have given this court its name. “Justice” indeed:
Earlier the international tribunal heard South African accusations that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. The South African delegation was the first to present their case to the 17-judge panel aiming for an injunction to be issued by the court to stop Israel’s fighting in Gaza.
“The world should be ashamed,” South Africa claimed after accusing Israel of purposeful genocide of Palestinians and much more. Among accusations Israel was said to conduct an annihilation of Gaza, targeting population growth there, turning it into the largest concentration camp in the world.
It is indeed the world that should be ashamed – for entertaining this biased show trial. Then again, all trials in the International Court of Justice are show trials because it has no way to enforce its rulings except if countries decide to abide by them. “How many divisions does the ICJ have?”
The point of the charade is propaganda, and the “international community” has been very good at anti-Israel propaganda for many decades. There’s strength in numbers, and unfortunately way too many countries in the world are run by corrupt despots, and anti-Israeli sentiment is ripe among them. South Africa is certainly one of those countries.
More:
The [Israeli] Foreign Ministry on Thursday said the South African accusations against Israel in its war in Gaza were baseless lies and the most hypocritical in history. In a statement released soon after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearing was adjourned the ministry said South Africa was being used as a judicial arm of the Hamas terror group and had presented a perverted account of the October 7 massacre while completely ignoring Hamas atrocities and the kidnapping of hostages.
The atrocities which are the entire reason for the Israeli action against Gaza, and the hiding by Hamas in civilian areas in order to use Gazan civilians as human shields – these apparently are mere irrelevant details to the South African lawyers.
Also:
Diaspora Minister Amichai Shikli said the proceedings in the Hague were a new low for the UN institutions which have become a bastion for world antisemitism. “It is doubtful whether the UN still has any moral standing as an organization that was established to promote human rights but appoints the representatives of the Iranian dictatorship to be at the helm of its human rights council,” he said.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid also criticized the proceedings in the ICJ. “It is not Israel that is on trial today,” Lapid said, “it is the international community. If a country defends itself against a barbaric attack by murderous terrorists, and can then find itself facing charges of genocide in court, then the Genocide convention has become a means to reward terror and advance antisemitism,” he said.
That’s what the UN and the international community have become. Actually it’s even worse – the UN is actively involved in directly teaching the Palestinians their murderous hatred of Jews through the educational system.
The thanks Israel gets for helping SA.
Musk said is a mistake for SA to do this.
We should not forget UN peacekeeping troops have come under criticism several times for engaging in numerous sex crimes. International organizations are filled with examples of contradictions in definitions. The International court of Justice doesn’t deal in justice, it metes out injustice. UN peacekeeping troops are accused routinely of sex trafficking and violence against civilians. The UN Human Rights Organization is filled with some of the greatest violators of human rights in the world. UNRWA has schools all over Gaza that teach violence against Israel and their food and energy distribution has been taken over by Hamas and used to blackmail the civilian population. The whole world of international organizations seems like a study in contradictions. I am sympathetic with people who call for pulling the US out of the UN and kicking the UN out of New York.
F:
That’s why I say “Orwellian.”
now this happening under the so called respectable prime minister ramaposa, as opposed to zuma who was kind of a crook, well they were all in mandela’s umkhonto du sizwe, the militant arm of the ANC, they have some long standing Russian ties going back to the Soviet era, I’m guessing the Chinese have some part in the matter,
it’s not because the USSR was really interested in racial justice, they wanted the resources of the future Azania, gold uranium, palladium
heres one view
https://qz.com/africa/1449906/china-soviets-backed-both-south-africa-apartheid-and-liberation
the late Wilbur Smith, who was a South African liberal, noted the Soviet influence in Rage, that described the Rivonia plot sans Mandela, and Golden Lion, which illustrated Soviet and other East Bloc influences,
Once more the UN demonstrates its foul corruption and unfitness to exist. It has become a focus of evil in this world.
Neo: right! Another example, BTW, of the Soviets having worked behind the scenes to kidnap an institution and bend it toward their own aims.
The Language of Soviet Propaganda: Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.
F:
The Soviets may be gone, but the Left marches on. The seeds the Soviets planted have borne fruit. I used to think people who looked at it that way were paranoid. I no longer think so.
F and others have mentioned UNRWA, but not until today did I look it up.
OMG, it’s an entire UN agency devoted, not to children, not to education but to Palestinian refugees! Clever how they clip the Palestinians out of the acronym.
They could switch Relief and Works around, then leave off the Refugees and it would be:
UNWRAP, the gift that keeps on giving!
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East[a] (UNRWA) is a UN agency that supports the relief and human development of Palestinian refugees. UNRWA’s mandate encompasses Palestinians displaced by the 1948 Palestine War and subsequent conflicts, as well as their descendants,[3][4] including legally adopted children.[5] As of 2019, more than 5.6 million Palestinians are registered with UNRWA as refugees.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNRWA
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I’m not entirely naïve, but this surprised me.
Welcome to the party, pal!
oh yes they run propaganda and education and other projects, so they are very reliable sarc,
huxley:
The Palestinians are treated differently than any other refugees in the world. They are VERY special. An entire huge agency devoted to only them. Tons of money and services. And a special definition of the word “refugee.”
“reward terrorism and advance” Jew-hatred….
He nailed it.
UN’s been doing that for decades.
Demolish the building. Throw them out of the USA and build the Trump Presidential Museum over the ruins.
To Neo and huxley.
Your characterization of UNWRA is incomplete.
The UNs longest mission is border security between Cyprus and the unrecognized Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, which runs through this islands biggest city, nearly on million there alone.
This is the result of a civil war circa, 1973, and politically parallels Putin’s war in Ukraine. Even if provoked, the bloodshed was initiated by Turkey.
And what does Gaza have in common with Cyprus? Only one guess, but it’s the same religion!
The view that the Cold War ended when the Berlin Wall fell, isn’t holding up. As Neo points out the seeds planted by the Soviets are still being nurtured by worldwide Marxism.
You see it, if you look hard enough.
It’s in the UN and its various agencies, It’s in many countries – Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, China, Zimbabwe, probably South Africa, and more. It’s become well entrenched in our society – academia, the MSM, the tech industry, the Democrat Party, etc.
The slogans and ideas are inevitably anti Judeo-Christian, democratic, and free enterprise values.
It’s all about an all-powerful central government that runs everyone’s lives. They call it Marxism, or Communism, or Socialism, or National Socialism or something else, but it’s all about centralized state control – tyranny.
They sell it as equity and social justice, but it’s actually quite Medieval in its form. The Nobles (Those who comprise the state ruling class) and the serfs. (Everyone else.)
“…1973…”
(’74, actually.)
RE UNRWA, from Wikipedia:
“…UNRWA was established in 1949 by the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to provide relief to all refugees resulting from the 1948 conflict. It also provided relief to Jewish and Arab Palestine refugees inside the State of Israel following the 1948 conflict until the Israeli government took over responsibility for them in 1952.[7][8][9] As a subsidiary body of the UNGA, UNRWA’s mandate is subject to periodic renewal every three years; it has consistently been extended since its founding, most recently until 30 June 2026.[10]….”
Phyllis Chesler is trying her best.
(Always gracious, she’s trying hard not to say “I told ya’ so”…)
“We underestimated the hatred and it is blowing up in our faces;
Jews and Israelis underestimated the profound effect that the anti-Jewish narrative, coupled with a half-century of funding intersectionality, critical race and ANTI-ISRAEL theories, etc. would have on the coming generations.”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/383479
She might have said “…of us funding—AND US SUPPORTING THE POLITICAL PARTY THAT SUPPORTS—…”
Has anyone noticed that Glenn Greenwald is also on the side of saying that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza as well? I find his take very perplexing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz-y7zk4mLM
ArmyMom:
I noticed it from the start and it doesn’t surprise me overly. Greenwald is one of those “when he’s right he’s really right and when he’s wrong he’s really wrong ” people. He’s always been a leftist libertarian. In the case of Israel, his leftism takes over.