01/28/2024
ICYMI
The International Criminal Court in The Hague has ruled in 15 to 2 that Israel has committed war crimes and must immediately abide by all the provisional measures ordered by the court:
✅ Israel must “prevent & halt crimes against Palestinians”…
✅ ensure humanitarian aid
✅ preserve evidence & in one month submit response to the court
✅ all parties are bound by international law
✅ calls for release of hostages held by Hamas
✅ South Africa has established before the court that there is “possible risk of genocide occurring in Gaza”
❌Ultimately what the court HAS NOT done? It has not said this is genocide, saying it needs more time and is relying on Israel to hold itself accountable, which by all evidence it will not do. This is not much better than virtue signaling…
What they should have done:
☑️ The court should have forced Israeli offensive forces to vacate occupied Palestine, released the thousands of Palestinian prisoners & cease all attacks immediately
☑️ Israeli hostages could be released upon prior conditions met
☑️ Palestine must be established as a state and join the UN immediately
☑️ Israel must be sanctioned & ousted until they abide by the rules
I don’t get why many are calling this a victory? Today the ICJ was on trial & it proved what many in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria & in the neo-colonized world have been saying: There is no international law.
Its ruling doesn’t commit to admitting that Israel is indeed committing genocide, it simply places the burden on them to police themselves which is a failed method, as Israel will continue to lie as they’ve been doing. There is no consequence placed on them at least for a month, in which they’ll continue killing Palestinians. No one but Israel is enforcing this so who will enforce them and what will be punishment? Nothing. This should have been done now not in one month.
There’s a mention of releasing Israeli hostages but what about the thousands of imprisoned Palestinians in Israeli jails?
The ruling proved that the only salvation for Palestinians is the axis of resistance. International law is far too cowardly to act according to the necessary conditions. It is such conditions which should force Israel to cease all military attacks, leave occupied areas & be sanctioned until they do so. Conditions that fail to make Palestine as a state but continue to call the Israeli project one.
I’m not surprised western voices hail this as a feel-good victory for which they can pat themselves on the back. But it is not this. In one month, Israel who has never respected any law, a Zionist occupation project, will continue killing thousands more. In one month Palestinians will continue dying. In one month, there will still be a genocide because Israel has received the equivalent of a slap on the wrist.
Today the ICJ proved international law is but a feel-good western virtue signal, as the brutal reality for Palestinians is their own people & own resistance is the only thing that will liberate them.
Children and families blown to pieces don’t give a damn about how good westerners feel about this so-called advance. Good for who? Not for Palestinians. They’ll continue fighting as will all the resistance, with or without the veneer of international law, which so happens to only function for those in North America, Europe, the UK or their chosen proxies. Not for the nations that have been occupied, exploited & vilified by western imperialism.
Glad y’all “feel good” but to Palestinian families dying everyday, this matters little. They already knew this. It is you who needs to grasp reality.
It’s not even about the ceasefire. A ceasefire was a bare minimum but it can’t come without demilitarization and deoccupation of Gaza, so Palestinians can return home. A ceasefire also implies that there are two equal sides at war, which is false. The implication of a ceasefire by the court is not outright & only works if the defendant respects international law. But we know Israel won’t and there is no enforcement.
It’s about the fact that the court has double standards when it came to for example, Russia; ordering them to “immediately suspend all military operations that began on February 24, 2022 in the territory of Ukraine.” This when they weren’t attacking civilians. Yet they failed to even do that this time. And when they did, they had no enforcement and Russia continued because Russia wasn’t attacking civilians.
Yemen will of course continue to defend Palestine as will the entire resistance. That’s what will save them, not international law. I will not pat institutions of power on the back, when they’ve failed to function and do what the axis of resistance will only be capable of doing. The court failed to meet the urgent needs of the moment.
As we deliberate this so-called “win for justice,” more children and mothers, families and entire generations will die. This is why there is no true international law.
•Christopher C Black, international lawyer on ICJ interim ruling:
“Well the first thing is the ICJ ruling - a shameful display of double standards by the Court.
In 2022 Kiev did the same as South Africa-took Russia to court over its operations in Ukraine-when the Russians were invited in by the Donbass republics and acted to defend them against the war crimes of Kiev. Did the court rule that the Russians should behave themselves in their operations? No, They ordered Russia to withdraw, even though no civilians were being killed.
(March 16, 2022- ‘Russia shall immediately suspend the military operations that it commenced on 24 February.’)
But in the case of Israel? ‘No problem Israel, your war on Gaza can continue, but try to behave yourselves.’ That's it.
So once again we see international politics played out in the this ‘court’ which usually does what the West wants, demonstrating once again that the West has become a putrid fermentation of corruption and decay.”
