Israel is in the dock once again, this time at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, where it has been accused by South Africa of committing “genocide” against the Palestinians in Gaza. This charge has been brought despite the fact that the IDF has dropped six million leaflets, made 14 million pre-recorded calls and 72,000 personal calls, to warn Palestinians to leave areas of the most danger. The first warning was intended to persuade inhabitants of northern Gaza to move south of the Wadi Gaza in order to avoid the attacks that Israel was about to unleash. Later, when the IDF turned its attention to southern Gaza, it dropped two million leaflets, and sent emails, containing maps showing the places in southern Gaza that would be safe from attack by the IDF. And the IDF has continued its long-established practice of warning civilians away from buildings — schools, mosques, apartment buildings — that are about to be targeted. This is not the behavior of a military set on “genocide.” In fact, the IDF is the only army in the world that in order to save civilian lives also alerts its enemy, as to where attacks will take place — a practice that led British Colonel Richard Kemp to describe the IDF as “the most moral army in the world.”
Now the British journalist Brendan O’Neill has noted the hypocrisy surrounding the singling out of Israel for the crime of “genocide” by those who have either committed genocide in the past or are doing so now, without any consequences to themselves. More on O’Neill’s scathing condemnation of those countries can be found here: “These accusations of ‘genocide’ bring shame on humanity,” by Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, January 13, 2024:
The more you think about the genocide case against Israel, the more horrendous it becomes. First there’s the hypocrisy. It is an orgy of cant. Turkey has noisily joined the ranks of shameless governments pointing a collective finger at Israel. This is the same Turkish government that denies that its nation carried out the Armenian Genocide of 1915, when a million people [1.5 million] were wiped from the face of the Earth. As part of a programme of tyrannical Islamisation, Armenian Christians were forced on to death marches in the desert during which unimaginable numbers perished. Now the genocide deniers are genocide judges. It would be funny if it were not so repulsive.
Turkey is providing ‘documents’ for South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice this week. ‘I believe that Israel will be convicted’, says Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. This is the same Erdoğan who locks people up for speaking of the Armenian Genocide. Article 301 of Turkey’s penal code, which forbids ‘insulting Turkishness,’ has been used to prosecute people who mention 1915. Writers and publishers have been banged up for the sin of saying ‘Armenia’ and ‘genocide’ in the same breath. Now this tyrant who ruthlessly punishes discussion of his own nation’s genocide loudly accuses Israel of genocide. These are Kafkaesque levels of moral fraud.
The Organisation of Islamic Countries has likewise joined the genocide chorus against Israel. This includes Saudi Arabia. Fresh from its slaughter of thousands in Yemen. Surely it will be a cold day in hell before any nation takes lectures on violence from these fanatics who whip and kill their own citizens for such crimes as apostasy, homosexuality and being a woman who wants rights.
Iran has lined up with South Africa, too. It’s getting ridiculous now. Vastly more people have perished in Iran’s wars of the past 40 years than in the wars Israel has been involved in since 1948. Just last year Iran slaughtered hundreds of its own citizens for the crime of believing women are human beings. Kurds in particular got it in the neck. Masses were murdered. ‘They tried to wipe us out’, said one Kurd. For Iran to sit in judgment on any nation is a nauseating spectacle, an inversion of morality of Orwellian proportions.
Iran has not only murdered tens of thousands of political dissidents, but also many thousands of separatists — Arabs in Khuzestan on the Persian Gulf, Baluchis in Baluchistan on the border with Pakistan and, most murderously, Kurds in the northeast of the country. Force, or the threat of force, is how the Persians hold together a country where they constitute only a little more than 50% of the population.
Then there’s South Africa, the nation that brought the case against Israel. Its imperious judges reeled off charge after charge against the Jewish State at the ICJ this week. You’ll forgive my gagging. ANC-run South Africa is one of the most corrupt regimes in the world. The heirs to Mandela have catastrophically failed to make good his promise of a new, fair nation. South Africa under their rule has some of the highest rates of murder and rape in the world. Poverty is rampant. The ANC has massacred black workers who were merely campaigning for better pay. It failed to counter murderous pogroms against Zimbabwean immigrants. It presides over a country where, for millions, life is brutish and short. Perhaps it should save some of the fashionable sympathy it feels for the people of Gaza for its own long-suffering citizens.
Who will be called up next to give evidence? An old Hutu commander, perhaps? Maybe they’ll dig up Pol Pot and let him rage against the Jews. The ICJ trial of Israel is one of the most absurd and sinister events of the 21st century so far. Israel is being accused of unconscionable violence by the practitioners of unconscionable violence. It is being charged with reckless disregard for civilian life by the self-enriched rulers of nations in which thousands of civilians die every year from preventable disease, political violence and execution. It is being charged with war crimes by nations that beat to death young women who want to show their hair. It is being called criminal by criminals.
And still the West’s woke left laps it up. They’re glued to the ICJ proceedings. They appear to derive a perverse relish from seeing the Jewish State in the dock. They ask not one critical question about the moral credentials of Israel’s accusers, for to do so would muddy the moralistic waters they swim in; it would add irritating complexity to the infantile narrative they have fashioned in which Israel is evil incarnate, and thus anyone who opposes Israel is good.
Any mention of Turkey’s suppression of its genocidal history, Iran’s theocratic barbarism or the South African regime’s supercilious disregard for the economic and spiritual wellbeing of its own citizens would do something unforgivable: distract attention from what they consider to be the unique wickedness of the Jewish State. And so they just nod along, cheer along in fact, as the corrupt and despotic accuse Israel of sin….
Let’s be clear: to accuse the Jews of genocide is the gravest calumny. To drag the historical victims of genocidal mania to court in order to bark the accusation of genocide in their faces is, to me, unconscionable. To liken these survivors of the Nazi derangement to the Nazis – as so many leftists and Islamists are doing – is an unforgivable inversion of morality, history and truth. To use the Genocide Convention that was brought in following the Nazis’ extermination of six million Jews against the nation in which many of the descendants of those Jews now reside is nothing more than [an] act of cruelty. It reorders history itself. It whitewashes the sins of the Western world by putting those sins on to their historic targets. It is self-serving absolution dressed up as radical critique. The Final Absolution, we might say.
The public shaming of Dreyfus was driven by a lust for ‘hunting down “dirty Jews”’, a lust that ‘dishonours our times’, said Zola. Few would even dream of saying ‘dirty Jews’ these days. But they do say ‘evil Israelis’, ‘blood-lusting Israelis’, ‘uniquely murderous Israelis’. And they do dishonour our times. That’s it: I accuse you of dishonoring the values of Enlightenment, truth and reason by falsely accusing the survivors of genocide of being genocidal.
Brendan O’Neill’s furious condemnation of the hypocrites of South Africa, Iran, and Turkey, is quite a tour de force. Each of them has been guilty of real “genocides.” In South Africa, the victims have been Zimbabwean migrant workers and – whom he did not mention – white farmers. In Iran, the victims have been the Kurds and members of other separatist groups. In Turkey, it has been the 1.5 million Armenians murdered in 1915, about whose murders — whose “genocide” — it is illegal to speak in Turkey. He tells us that there has indeed been “genocide” in the current conflict, but Israel was not the victimizer, but the victim. The 3,000 Hamas killers who surged into Israel on October 7 were hellbent on the genocide of the hated Jews. They murdered Jewish babies in their beds, burned Jewish children alive, gang-raped, tortured, and murdered Jewish girls, sliced the breasts off Jewish women, gouged out the eyes, and cut off the genitalia, of Jewish men, murdered children in front of their parents, and parents in front of their children. This is the “genocide” that the world should be condemning.
Israel, which makes endless efforts to minimize civilian deaths, through its warnings delivered by leafletting, messaging, telephoning, and use of the “knock-on-the-roof” technique, is not committing genocide. Israel, that right now is treating Hamas prisoners in Israeli hospitals, is not committing genocide. Israel, whose pilots call off an airstrike if they think there are too many civilians who might be harmed, is not committing genocide.
Bendan O’Neill is outraged by the hypocritical gang-up on Israel. His furious indictment, his Zolaesque “J’accuse” moment, is stirring and, as he clearly meant it to be, infuriating. I have every expectation, having seen the first speaker for the defense, Malcolm Shaw QC, so eloquently take apart South Africa’s meretricious behavior in bringing its charges, that Israel will emerge unscathed, and it will be South Africa whose behavior at the ICJ will be held up for condemnation.
MJ Raichyk, PhD says
Strangely silent about ‘kill the white farmer”… ”kill the Boer”… I wonder why… ttyl
Ray Jarman says
I could not agree more and how about Hezbola using anti-tank weapons to directly target civilian homes in Israel as reported here at Jihad Watch earlier today?
Tony Rice says
To take South Africa’s population off their deteriorating own conditions, plus ANC boast “when Mandela dies we will kill you whites like flies ” So they are the same ilk as Hamas, birds of a feather .
Reziac says
Oh, Mandela said the same thing…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKiePbTcAfY
“We pledge ourselves to kill the whites” and it’s pretty clear the non-blacks in the group have no idea what the African words mean.
Transmaster says
Here is the best source of Israeli new on the War in Gazas, and Southern Lebanon.
https://youtu.be/flG_YK0uihU?si=jCDT3ubN6GlgzKxe
Hudders. says
The Hague is like a portal to the underworld.
A direct hotline from hell itself, seeing as they are doing the devil’s bidding.
How they can justify their recent judicial wranglings, poisonous political posturing & overbearing outright lies is beyond me. It beggars belief.
To these criminals, up is down. Black is white. Heads is tails. Light is dark & good is evil.
Supporting terrorists over Israel, reveals all we need to know about the Hague & the bloviated acolytes of death who worship there.
Jack Reynolds says
The population of GAZA has DOUBLED EVERY 20 YEARS since 1948 … 200,000 to 2,400,000
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Whoever is in Israel is charge of the Genocide ought to be fired, they are REALLY, REALLY BAD AT IT !!!
Walter Sieruk says
How many times does the truth need to be repeated. Which is that it’s no doubt, about it It’s very sad and tragic that so many innocent children died in Gaza because of this current war that Hamas started this with Israel on October 7th when it launched its brutal vicious and murderous and even vile and heinous jihadist attacks on the peaceful Jewish citizens of the State of Israel.
That innocent children died in Gaza because of Israel’s air force was not the intention of the government and military officials of Israel.
Those youngster who had been killed had died because those despicable jihadists of Hamas, because they are so very callous and cruel that they deliberately stationed their jihad strategy command and weapon centers at buildings that have children in and around those places.
Therefore the bloodguilt for the death of those children of Gaza on the wicked hands of the Hamas jihadists.
Walter Sieruk says
To reiterate the important message ,which is that it’s that demonic dangerous and deadly Jihad entity that stated that current war in the Middle East by invading Israel, on October 7,th , and then attempted to commit genocide against the Jewish people and the jihadists of Hamas even went further in heinous evil by kidnapping many Israel’s and raping many Jewish females . Those Hamas jihadist are so cruel and vicious that they even took Jewish infants and burned them to death while they were still alive.
In spite of all those facts, some despicable people want to exculpate Hamas from all is wicked jihad terrorism and release its jihadists from the monstrous Islamic evil that they have so vicious committed and are very guilty of.
To add to this m libelous and slanderous of false charges of genocide are made against Israel about it heads of government and the IDF.
Such charges are as absurd as they are also wrong. Those changes are very absurd.
Related to this, the Bible informs its reader that “Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent – – the Lord detests them both.” Proverbs 17:15. [N.I.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
It should always be remembered that making slanderous and libelous accusations is evil and wrong. Very evil and wrong.
That claim by the enemies of the Jewish State of Israel is a false completely claim.
One genuine newspaper had put it this way “One accusation is that Israel has engaged in genocide against the Palestinians. However, the facts show a vast increase in the Palestinian population, from 156,000 to 2,100,000 in Israel…” [1]
[1] THE EPOCH TIMES January 3-9, 2024, A15
Yeshayahu says
Short and sweet Fuck S. Africa and the Hague, neither of which has any say so, or control over what happens in the state of Israel. South Africa needs to check their own backyard and basically keep riding their elephant. As far as The Hague when you start executing terrorists instead of throwing them in jail when you start hunting them down instead of giving them a free pass, then you’ll be in a position to say something or do something, but after October 7, this isn’t Israeli problem and this will do it be dealt with the way we deal with it and all the arguing in the world won’t stop that we don’t forgive and we will never forget.