No defense for what Israel is doing. And i believe US arms shipments violate US law because of how they’re being used in Gaza. But also believe that absolutist attitudes like the one displayed by your post, though understandable, do the cause of stopping Israel’s war crimes more harm than good.
"This hurts the cause" -everyone who despises the cause
Listen to “Angry Young Man” by Billy Joel and think about it. That is, if you are a real person operating in good faith. Good luck to you.
It's not angry young men classifying Israel's military actions as genocidal, it's the world court, most genocide scholars, and basically every human rights org including the ones in Israel. Basically everyone who takes human rights seriously
The ICJ indictment does not charge genocide. With good reason. Overheated rhetoric does not help unless either there’s clueless self righteousness (see the song) or the objective is to inflame passions rather than to persuade (bad faith actor). In either case, life is too short to continue this.
The ICJ doesn't indict, it adjudicates. And it has ruled against Israel in it's adjudication of the Genocide Convention many times. This isn't clueless self righteousness, it's a legal determination by the highest court in the world substantiated by basically every human rights org, even in Israel
Aside from the highly conditional 1/26/24 ruling (“some acts may be close; don’t cross the genocide line”) please point me to an ICJ ruling on Israel and genocide. Given how things are going in Gaza, they may cross the line, but I know of no ICJ ruling that they have already done so.
Israel violated the conditions of the 1/26/24 ruling. www.un.org/unispal/docu...
Read it carefully. No holding of genocide. I believe that Ben Gvir, Smotrich, and Netanyahu will cross the line and that there will be such a ruling, but they haven’t yet. And screaming “genocide” won’t create an adjudication of genocide where none exists.
Israel violated the provisional orders to mitigate the risk of genocide. Short of a final determination which will take years this is the most definitive adjudication the court can possibly make on being in violation of the genocide convention.
Then say “Israel is committing war crimes and is unwilling to impose safeguards against genocide. Under Netanyahu, Israel is a rogue state.” Constant bleating that they have committed genocide when the elements of the offense haven’t been proved and/or aren’t crystal clear cheapens the term.