To Continue the Gaza Genocide, Israel and the US Must Destroy the Laws of War, by Jonathan Cook

The U.S. and Israeli governments have condemned the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court decisions against them and have ignored their strictures. From Jonathan Cook at unz.com:

The world’s two highest courts have made an implacable enemy of Israel in trying to uphold international law and end Israeli atrocities in Gaza.

Separate announcements last week by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) should have forced Israel on to the back foot in Gaza.

A panel of judges at the ICJ – sometimes known as the World Court – demanded last Friday that Israel immediately stop its current offensive on Rafah, in southern Gaza.

Instead, Israel responded by intensifying its atrocities.

On Sunday, it bombed a supposedly “safe zone” crowded with refugee families forced to flee from the rest of Gaza, which has been devastated by Israel’s rampage for the past eight months.

The air strike set fire to an area crammed with tents, killing dozens of Palestinians, many of whom burnt alive. A video shows a man holding aloft a baby beheaded by the Israeli blast.

Hundreds more, many of them women and children, suffered serious injuries, including horrifying burns.

Israel has destroyed almost all of the medical facilities that could treat Rafah’s wounded, as well as denying entry to basic medical supplies such as painkillers that could ease their torment.

This was precisely the outcome US President Joe Biden warned of months ago when he suggested that an Israeli attack on Rafah would constitute a “red line”.

But the US red line evaporated the moment Israel crossed it. The best Biden’s officials could manage was a mealy-mouthed statement calling the images from Rafah “heart-breaking”.

Such images were soon to be repeated, however. Israel attacked the same area again on Tuesday, killing at least 21 Palestinians, mostly women and children, as its tanks entered the centre of Rafah.

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2 responses to “To Continue the Gaza Genocide, Israel and the US Must Destroy the Laws of War, by Jonathan Cook

  1. Neo is the One's avatar Neo is the One

    Kill more of theirs until they stop is the rule of WAR.

    (h/t-Curtis Lemay)

    To be fair he called himself a WAR Criminal at the end due to actions in North Korea.

    This is a Murderworld brother, nobody loves you.

    White Zombie, 1989

    This just in from Crossroads 1986:

    Cutting Heads Duel (Ry Cooder & Steve Vai)

  2. Some scuttlebutt about Saudi Arabia ending the Petrodollar on June 9th?

    Only one commenter brought it up at the brain expanding Larry Johnson (h/t) page from looking around at various places. (h/t-DMM)

    It reminds of the Gandhi quote stating that if 95% decide that they have had enough then they will prevail.

    The world has had enough of Hegemony Cricket?

    I love these pages that are like a free professor lecture from the time when that actually meant something.

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