As Palestinians pushes for statehood, Israel finds itself more isolated
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Israeli officials’ calls for ‘voluntary’ migration of Palestinians alarm human rights experts
“What needs to be done in the Gaza Strip is to encourage emigration,” Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Sunday. Referring to Gaza as a “ghetto,” he added: “If in Gaza there will be 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs and not 2 million, the entire conversation on ‘the day after’ will look different.”
The idea of expelling - or encouraging the “voluntary” migration of - Palestinians from Gaza, once a fringe view held by extremists like Meir Kahane, has become normalized in Israeli society since the Oct. 7th attack.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israeli-gaza-voluntary-migration-forced
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The Committee to Protect Journalists has called for an independent investigation into whether Israel is targeting journalists in air strikes.
The Israel-Gaza war has taken an unprecedented toll on the media community. Dozens of journalists and their family members have been killed in the Israel-Gaza war since the start of fighting on October 7. More journalists were killed in the first 10 weeks of the conflict than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year, according to CPJ data.
https://cpj.org/2024/01/cpj-calls-for-probe-into-whether-hamza-al-dahd
ouh-and-mustafa-thuraya-were-targeted-in-drone-strike/
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CNN Admits All Gaza Coverage Is Run Past Team Under Israeli Military Censor
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-cnn-censor
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Why Israel should be very worried by genocide case at International Court of Justice
Owen Jones says in video: “You might think that South Africa’s case against Israel for genocide is doomed – that Israel will just ignore the International Court of Justice if it issues a provisional ruling ordering it to cease its murderous onslaught against Gaza.
“But as lawyer Daniel Machover explains – this could have major consequences for Israel. He explains – very clearly – what the legal case means – and where it could lead.”
The New Arab reports:
Jordan’s foreign minister said on Thursday that Amman will back South Africa’s submission filed at the International Court of Justice that accuses Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Ayman Safadi on Thursday said that Amman will be preparing the necessary legal documents in consultation with legal experts to support South Africa’s file, and will also coordinate with Arab and Islamic countries on the matter.
Continue reading… https://www.newarab.com/news/jordan-backs-south-africa-icj-genocide-fi
le-against-israel
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Professor Vaughan Lowe KC, counsel and advocate, told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday genocide can never be justified.
South Africa understands that not all violence constitutes genocide. Acts of ethnic cleansing, collective punishment, the targeting of civilians, attacks on hospitals, and other war crimes are all unlawful: but they do not always violate the Genocide Convention. Genocide requires an intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. But the fact that what Israel is doing in Gaza may also constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity is no defence to a charge of genocide.
Israel says that Palestine and Palestinians are not its target, and that its aim is to destroy Hamas. But months of continuous bombing, flattening entire residential blocks and cutting off food and water and electricity and communications to an entire population, cannot credibly be argued to be man-hunt for members of Hamas. It is an indiscriminate attack, killing, maiming and terrorizing the entire population of Gaza with no regard to questions of innocence or guilt, obliterating the homes and cities in which they live, and destroying any practical possibility of their return to make their homes amidst the rubble.
More at https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/in-full-professor-vaugh
an-lowe-tells-icj-genocide-can-never-be-justified-20240111
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For many Palestinians in Gaza, the fear of Israeli airstrikes has become secondary to the slow, agonizing threat of starvation
Against the backdrop of intensified Israeli military attacks, the deprivation of food and water under a tightened siege, and the pervasive threat of epidemics with no medical aid, the city’s remaining inhabitants — even as they fight to stay alive — feel as if they have been left with no choice but to wait for their death.
"If we don’t die of hunger, we will die from the polluted water we’re forced to drink."
More at https://www.972mag.com/gaza-city-hunger-disease/
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Fuck Israel too.
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Ex-Netanyahu Aide Predicts How Long Israel's 'Cleaning' of Gaza Will Last
By David Brennan | Jan 18, 2024 at 7:37 AM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/netanyahu-aide-predicts-how-long-israel-clean
ing-gaza-last-hamas-1861812
"It will not be ended within the year," Amidror explained.
"The whole year will be dedicated to cleaning Gaza," Amidror explained, noting Israeli leaders "will not hesitate" to extend the operation into 2025 if needed.
The IDF's "Operation Swords of Iron" has so far killed more than 24,000 Palestinians, per figures published by the Associated Press, with around 85 percent of Gaza's 2.3 million people displaced.
Amidror warned on Thursday that a full-scale conflict with Hezbollah would be "ten times more complicated, and hard, and devastating than the war in Gaza. They have much more rockets, missiles, and drones and so on and so forth, I think ten times that of Hamas."
Regardless, he added: "The IDF is very aggressive in its will to fight in Lebanon. This is the dream of many soldiers, to finish with Hezbollah, which is the main threat to Israel."
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Western capitals have signed off on Israelis’ license to act like despots.
January 17, 2024
https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-icj-tyranny/
It’s hard to overstate the symbolic power of the Jan. 11 hearing at the International Court of Justice. In a moving display of solidarity, a diverse lineup of South African, Irish, and British lawyers meticulously laid out their evidence for charging Israel with the crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip. The malicious statements of Israeli officials, including cabinet ministers and generals, were recited as declarations of murderous intent. Videos of mass destruction, often recorded gleefully by Israeli soldiers, and which have dominated our social media feeds for months were brought before the world’s highest court for judgment. Palestinians have long been bitterly disappointed with international law, but watching the courtroom that day, even the most cynical observers could not help but feel seen, supported, even hopeful.
Notwithstanding South Africa’s performance, the fate of the ICJ case is far from a foregone conclusion. In the second hearing on Jan. 12, Israel’s attorneys gave a tough rebuttal to try and dismiss the claims of genocide as ludicrous. They presented examples of Israel’s coordination of humanitarian aid; the army’s methods of instructing civilians to evacuate targeted areas; images showing Hamas militants’ assimilation into the urban environment; and of course, the repeated invocation of Israel’s right to defend itself under international law.
The Israeli arguments were predictable, and many were easy to debunk, but they still carry significant weight. Along with the court’s proclivity for conservative interpretations of the law, the judges are acutely aware that they are presiding over what may be the most politically divisive case ever brought to The Hague, and thus may opt for a more cautioned approach.
At this point, however, the ICJ’s impending decisions are secondary to the lessons that ought to be drawn from the proceedings. One key takeaway, which has yet to fully register in Western policy circles, is the vacuity of Israel’s claim of “defense” to explain the wanton devastation wrought upon the besieged Strip.
Indeed, from its oral arguments in The Hague to its actions on the ground, Israel has made it abundantly clear that it is not asking the court to respect its right to self-defense. What it really wants is for the world to indulge Israel’s right to tyranny: to violently redesign its geopolitical environment, to secure its military and demographic dominance, and to do whatever it wishes to the Palestinians without criticism or consequence.
This tyranny is not just reflected in the mounting death toll in Gaza, although 24,000 bodies and 7,000 others missing — an especially searing rate for a small population that is tightly intertwined by familial, communal, and cultural bonds — is a grisly indicator. It is also in the terrifying fact that Gaza’s social fabric is deliberately being unraveled.
Much more at https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-icj-tyranny/
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HOSTAGES
As Benjamin Netanyahu clings to power, his country pays a price.
By David Remnick | Jan 14, 2024
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/22/benjamin-netanyahu-israe
l-gaza-hamas-war-hostages
In 1996, following the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, Netanyahu won a term as Prime Minister, which lasted three years. He was the chair of the Likud Party in June, 2006, when another hostage crisis arose: an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, was captured by Hamas fighters who had entered the southern Israeli kibbutz of Kerem Shalom by tunnel. The fighters killed two Israeli soldiers, grabbed Shalit, and brought him to Gaza. The first Prime Minister who had to deal with the Shalit crisis, Ehud Olmert, refused to give in to what he called “extortion” by a “murderous” terror organization. But Shalit’s kidnapping wore on the frayed nerves of Israeli society. Wasn’t the purpose of the state to safeguard its citizens? Netanyahu became Prime Minister again in 2009, and two years later he made an astonishing deal, securing Shalit’s release in exchange for more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners, some of them responsible for the deaths of multiple Israelis. One of the prisoners was Yahya Sinwar, a Hamas military leader, who returned home and eventually became the leader of Hamas in Gaza.
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“We want our country back. We want to feel safe again.” That’s what Netanyahu says his supporters told him when he was out of power a few years ago, urging him to reclaim the office. On page after page, his memoir is filled with illustrations of his magnificent foresight and unparalleled successes in cementing his nation’s security. He explains how in May, 2021, in Operation Guardian of the Walls, miles of Gaza’s underground tunnel network were destroyed, in a coup that “set Hamas back at least a decade.” The operation “worked perfectly,” he boasts. “We had neutralized the tunnel threat.”
The longer the war goes on—and, according to top military analysts, it is not going nearly as well or as quickly as the I.D.F. had hoped—the more time Netanyahu will have to rebuild his base and undermine potential challengers. “Netanyahu has an interest in never finishing this stage of war,” Nahum Barnea said. The Prime Minister’s announced “prerequisites for peace,” certainly, do not suggest he is looking for an off-ramp: “Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must be demilitarized, and Palestinian society must be deradicalized.” Yet Hamas has always been a product as well as a purveyor of brutality, and the Prime Minister hardly needs to be instructed in the gap between his political interests and the larger realities. Recounting a previous crisis in his memoir, he took pains to edify his readers on the subject. A full-blown war with Hamas, he wrote, would be a “hollow” spectacle with no satisfying end. “The Hamas leaders would come out from their holes and declare victory among the ruins.”
THE NEW YORKER. JANUARY 22, 2024
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