This is also a test of the ICJ; if they find Israel innocent of genocide it will never be taken seriously again. And if Israel is found not to be committing genocide then this case will just be used to defend other genocides in future.
What I think will happen is that the court will find they are committing genocide, and then all Western leaders will say that they disagree with the conclusion the ICJ/ICC found.
So much nonsense has been flung around by Israel and its supporters in the last few months, I don’t see why they’d suddenly want to return to some semblance of logic and reason just because their obvious crimes have been formally recognised.
Or they might do the human rights groups both sides shit. Regardless, ICJ has no teeth and if it fails here, this might just make a lot of people let go of liberalism.
I think the South African team presented their arguments extremely well. I wonder what extreme Oct. 7 atrocity propaganda Israel has prepared to show the UN’s highest court tomorrow. Surely that’s all they can do since they haven’t been able to refute any single argument presented by South Africa. Initially, each side was given 2 hours to make statements, Israel requested an extension to 3 hours.
All they had to do was play back the Zionist’s own statements to prove they were genocidal. So far they’ve claimed that Hamas is the party committing genocide (ridiculous), but as was explained by South Africa, they are not a state party and so aren’t subject to the Genocide Convention.
Vaughan Lowe argued strongly that nothing can possibly merit a response of Genocide in any context. This simple fact must expose whatever attempt to reframe themselves as victims that Israel will try to pull tomorrow.
In case you want to watch from the beginning (they had really good opening remarks), it’s also streaming on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfAa1GiNdgM
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
