South Africa is a kleptocratic state where white farmers are murdered every week by black criminals intent on helping themselves to white-owned property, and black politicians with the African National Congress manage to enrich themselves through every conceivable kind of theft, has just filed a claim with the International Court of Justice, accusing Israel of “genocide” in Gaza. The charge is absurd. More on this can be found here: “Israel is not committing genocide — but Hamas is,” by Arsen Ostrovsky and Stanislav Pavlovschi, The Hill, January 4, 2024:
As 2023 drew to a close last week, South Africa decided to file a claim at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, preposterously accusing Israel of carrying out genocide in Gaza.
The crime of genocide, coined in 1944 by the Polish-Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin to describe the systematic extermination of Jews by the Nazis, is one of the most serious accusations that can be leveled in international law. Today, it has a very specific definition under Article II of the Genocide Convention of 1948, meaning committing acts, including by killing, that are intended to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.
It is important to underscore that the commission of genocide has nothing to do with the number of civilian casualties; the key element of the crime is the need to possess relevant “intent.” Whatever criticism one may have of Israeli policies or Israel Defense Forces (IDF) actions in Gaza, Israel is not seeking to destroy the Palestinian people, whether in whole, in part, or in any manner.
Neither in peacetime, nor in times of war, has Israel been guilty of genocide. In 1967, when Israel came into possession of Gaza by force of arms in the Six-Day war, there were 410,000 Palestinians in the Strip. By 2005, when every last Israeli, soldier and civilian, was pulled out of Gaza, its Arab population stood at 1.3 million, or more than a three-fold increase since 1967. This leads one to ask the obvious question about those 38 years when Israel controlled Gaza: Genocide? What genocide? It is the same story in Judea and Samaria (a/k/a the West Bank). In 1967, when Israel took possession of the area, its Palestinian Arab population was 600,000; today it is 3 million. That’s a fivefold increase in the Arab population. Again we must ask: Genocide? What genocide?
Fortunately, the Biden Administration has publicly rebuked the South Africans:
During a Nov. 20 briefing, U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby eviscerated the inappropriate use of the term genocide to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza, forcefully stating:
“Israel isn’t trying to wipe the Palestinian people off the map. Israel isn’t trying to wipe Gaza off the map. Israel is trying to defend itself against a genocidal terrorist threat. So, if we’re going to start using that word, fine. Let’s use it appropriately.”
Kirby was even forceful when responding to a specific question about South Africa’s filing a claim of “genocide” by Israel at the I.C.C.:
This week [the first week in January], asked about South Africa’s claim against Israel, Kirby could was unequivocal, saying the U.S “find this submission meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever.”
The claim that Israel is committing “genocide” is, according to the American government, “meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact.” Take that, Pretoria. And your scandal-prone president, too, Cyril Ramaphosa, of the graft-tainted ANC, ought to be more careful with his wild charges. After all, he has accumulated a fortune of at least $450 million — hiding some of it inside furniture at his Phala Phala Game Farm at Limpopo — and how he managed to acquire such a fortune is something he would no doubt prefer be kept secret. Does anyone care to raise the matter of Ramaphosa’s Grand Theft, not at the International Criminal Court, but at the International Court of Public Opinion?
Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, have been unequivocal and repeated in stating that the goal of the operation in Gaza is to eliminate Hamas, by destroying its military and governing capabilities.
If anyone is guilty of genocide here, it is the internationally recognized terrorist group Hamas. Not only does Hamas openly state that the destruction of Israel is its ultimate goal, as evidenced in its Charter, it acted out on those intentions on Oct. 7, when Hamas massacred over 1,200 Israelis, including raping, burning, mutilating and executing women and children.
The Hamas Charter itself calls for the annihilation of the Jewish state. And on October 7, 3,000 Hamas terrorists swept into Israel, torturing, raping, murdering men, women, and children. They beheaded babies. They burned children alive. They gang-raped, tortured, and murdered girls. Sometimes they raped corpses. They sliced off the breasts of women, and just for fun, played catch with those breasts. They gouged out the eyes, and cut off their genitalia, of men — sometimes before, and sometimes after, killing them. They murdered children in front of their parents, and parents in front of their children. That is genocide. Had they been able, Hamas’ operatives would have kept on with their satanic spree for as long as it took to destroy every Jew in Israel. That is what Hamas lives to accomplish. It was proud of its atrocities. The Hamas “fighters” took videos of themselves raping, mutilating, and murdering, something to show to their family and friends back in Gaza. One of the murderers called home and proudly announced to his mother “Mom, I killed ten Jews with my own hands.” When they returned to Gaza, they were welcomed as heroes. Candies and pastries were handed out; men Allahu-akbaring, women ululating triumphantly at the “brave deeds” of those who had accomplished such feats.
When you behead babies, that is genocide. When you burn children alive, that is genocide. When you gang-rape girls, torture, and murder them, that is genocide. When you gouge out the eyes and cut off the genitalia of the men, that bespeaks genocide.
Bexarkat says
Based on what? What they heard? No competent court in the world would accept charges and accusations based on hearsay….but then again, it is the ICC, so who knows?
Constance says
This is so absurd… in ANY COUNTRY!!! Why World Leaders, Government, Police & Judicial systems tolerate this horse shit … AGAINST their Sovereign Citizens????
Thinking that “they” maybe part of NWO. Think the Islamist are Evil , these Elitist are insane!
somehistory says
And yet, they remain silent about what is going on in the whole of Africa….places like nigeria, the congo, chad, niger, sudan, etc….where mozlums are slaughtering Christins by the tens of thousands. Hypocrites by the words of their own mouths.
And OT
“A Chinese scientist known as “Batwoman” allegedly took part in a meeting with US Government officials about funding for a project to “supercharge” coronaviruses – before the Covid-19 pandemic.
Shi Zhengli, who is renowned for her work researching SARs-like coronaviruses in the flying mammals, held a meeting at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in June 2017 – the MailOnline reports, citing newly released documents.”
The “pandemic” was on purpose. Genocide maybe?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/us-scientists-enlisted-china-s-batwoman-to-supercharge-coronaviruses-before-pandemic/ar-AA1mA64m?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=cb4c36bc24094968aeb8a861399975e2&ei=28
࿗Infidel࿘ says
You missed the big kahuna here – South Africa itself. Classic case of pot, kettle, black!
All the Whites – both Boer and English – who could flee that country have! They’ve moved to Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Canada & several other countries. The people left there are the elderly Whites, who are often targeted for murder by Blacks. As Tucker Carlson noted, if you wanna know what the BLM/DEI crowd have in store for us, just look at South Africa
Israel should file an identical claim w/ the same court accusing South Africa of the same, but backing it up w/ real evidence, of any former South African who fled that country b’cos they no longer felt safe there
somehistory says
I leave the “big kahuna” for you, Infidel.
Of course south africa is also guilty of the same thing of which they are branding…falsely…Israel. Thus, my charge of hypocrites.
Hoi Polloi says
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/06/lab-leaks-accidents-pandemic-viruses-bacteria-wuhan/
Lab leaks up 50%.
Hoi Polloi says
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/06/lab-leaks-accidents-pandemic-viruses-bacteria-wuhan/
Even better, lab leaks are up 50%.
somehistory says
The article to which I linked, said that the job to make the viruses worse and spreadable to humans was given to china because there were fewer safeguards and therefore, cheaper to make them.
Many of us know the lab was making a bio-weapon and knew this before the current documents being exposed as to it being for the purpose of making many people ill to the point of dying. And of that many, most if not all, know that the “leak’ was deliberate. It was not an accident. Accidents can be admitted; but they tried to put the blame on a market selling food stuffs instead. Because it wasn’t an accident at all.
One glaring factor at the time, so many Americans there for some kind of games came home ill from the virus., a.k.a. bioweapon.
Another: the young doctor who exposed the deception was suddenly taken ill and died. He was a healthy young man….no “comorbidity” to blame with his death from the *virus.*.
Hoi Polloi says
Oh, I agree it was intentional; absolutely. Just making a related point; that they’re not backing off these dangerous labs and endeavors and that safety procedures are increasingly being ignored, so problems are increasingly likely. One reason the Wuhan labs were known to scientists before all this was international news was due to their many egregious violations of safety standards.
Apologies for the double post.
WPM says
Maybe the South Africa government can put themselves out there and volunteer to letting the “refugee” Gaza Moslems to immigrate to South Africa? They can give them the farms that the whites there have left for fear of being killed by the “native” Africans in South Africa.
Cam says
Nice! Myanmar all the ‘Palestinians’ to South Africa!
Tony Rice says
The real reason maybe is to draw attention away from South Africa’s as a failing state, which it is. At one time Israel used to support S A in many ways, such is the thanks they get. Let S A sink in it’s own mire, which it will increasingly do and become an outpost for Russia and China. As more whites leave, greater the acceleration .
WPM says
I can see China licking it chops with all the national resources in South Africa ,I could see them putting up a few puppets of native Africans in charge and putting the remainder into slavery to work the mines. With the way the Chinese treat their own native people who do not confirm to the way the government wants them to obey them the natives will be only so much chattel to them
Rick Olsha says
What hypocrites !!!!
AM ISREAL CHAI !!!!!