The International Court of Justice will rule on South Africa’s request to order a halt to Israel’s offensive on Rafah tomorrow [Friday] afternoon.
The demand is part of a larger case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide.
After initial hearings in January, the ICJ issued several provisional measures, ordering Israel to take action to limit humanitarian suffering in Gaza.
The IDF has ignored US advice on how to avoid the mass killing of civilians in Gaza & hasn't even implemented its own existing avoidance policies. "There’s a huge disagreement on strategy now.
"The US has given Israel carte blanche up till now & continues to ship light weapons."
It's absolutely clear to the Palestinians that "the US is doing next to nothing to save them from the onslaught of the Israeli forces."
Nahost-Liveblog: ++ USA drängen auf Öffnung von Grenzübergängen ++
US-Außenminister Austin hat an Ägypten und Israel appelliert, die Grenzübergänge Kerem Schalom und Rafah zu öffnen. Kolumbien will im Westjordanland eine Botschaft eröffnen. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.
"In Israelis' wallowing and victimhood; in endless self-righteous panels on TV; in cries about an antisemitic world and the injustice of bundling Israel with Hamas, there's one fundamental, fateful question missing: Did Israel commit war crimes in Gaza? No one dares deal with this critical, key question: Were there, or were there not, crimes?"
Gideon Levy
"It is not enough to blame Netanyahu, the main culprit, nor is it enough to whitewash this with evasive arguments about hasbara, faulty legal counsel & extreme remarks from Israeli officials. The issue runs far deeper: For 57 years, Israel has been maintaining a regime of wrongdoing and evil, and now, at last, the world is waking up and starting to act against it. Will it also be able to wake up at least some Israelis from their heedless, twisted sense of justice?"
Gideon Levy #Israel#Gaza#ICC
Nahost-Liveblog: ++ Israel will Verhandlungen über Geiseln fortführen ++
Das israelische Kriegskabinett hat dafür gestimmt, die Verhandlungen über die Freilassung der Geiseln aus der Gewalt der Hamas fortzusetzen. Ägypten droht damit, seine Vermittlerrolle aufzugeben. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.
Canada’s largest private high school recently organized a genocide solidarity trip in which students cooked for Israeli soldiers. In a sane world, the school’s charitable status would be revoked.
Eco's definition of "eternal" is rather idiosyncratic @heretical_i :blobcat_thinkingsmirk:
The roots of Zionism can be traced to the early 17th century. Until relatively recently, it was a gentile concept. Jews didn't start using the term in relation to themselves until very late in the 19th century. Jewish Zionism comes in many forms. The form that spawned Israel dates to that time period.
Fascism was founded during World War I by Italian national syndicalists who drew upon both left-wing organizational tactics and right-wing political views. Italian Fascism gravitated to the right in the early 1920s.
It looks like @EyalL has blocked me. Here is the reply that I was going to send him:
Israeli Zionism (as distinct from other forms of Zionism, Jewish and otherwise) is the notion that someone who claims to be Jewish is entitled to take the home of a Palestinian, solely because they claim to be Jewish. Such injustices precipitated the October 7 atrocities and continue to endanger Jews worldwide.
Abuse of the term "antisemitism" has effectively neutered the concept. Here's a definition for you: https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/