Good question. From Gideon Levy at Haaretz via archive.is:
A Palestinian woman walks near the rubble of a house destroyed in an Israeli strike, earlier this week.Credit: Reuters/Mohammed Salem
Let us assume that Israel’s position at The Hague is right and just and Israel committed no genocide or anything close to it. So what is this? What do you call the mass killing, which continues even as these lines are being written, without discrimination, without restraint, on a scale that is difficult to imagine?
What to call dying children on hospital floors, some of whom have no one left in the world, and hungry elderly civilians fleeing for their lives from the unceasing threat of bombs everywhere? Will the legal definition change their fate? Israel will breathe a sigh of relief if the court dismisses the charge. As far as it is concerned, if this is not genocide our conscience will be clean again. If The Hague says “not genocide,” we will once again be the most moral ones in the world.
This weekend, the Israeli media and social media erupted with admiration and praise for the legal team that represented us at The Hague. What elegant English and persuasive arguments. On the previous day, the media hardly reported South Africa’s position, which was presented in even better English than the English of the Israelis and was far more anchored in facts and less on propaganda, once again proving that in this war, Israel’s media has reached an all-time nadir. It sees its duty as enhancing the Israeli position and nullifying the position of “the legal arm of Hamas.” Look at how much legal honor those experts have brought us.
Hopefully the end is near for the Satanic state of Israhell