Israeli public figures accuse judiciary of ignoring incitement to genocide in Gaza
JVL Introduction
The Guardian reports on a legal move begun within Israel to redress the issue of “Extensive and blatant incitement to genocide, expulsion, and ethnic cleansing in Gaza by public figures, and the absolute silence of the judicial system.”
A brief selection from the surfeit of such statements now freely available is followed by a call on Israel’s most senior legal officers (the Attorney General, the State Prosecutor and the Deputy State Prosecutor) to do their duty by acting against such incitement.
The letter makes clear that should they fail to do so they in turn will bear responsibility “for the results of the ferocious and unbridled incitement described in this letter”.
The letter has been submitted on behalf of a number of former senior members of Israel’s diplomatic corps, academics, journalists, former members of Knesset, and social activists. This includes three former Israeli Ambassadors: Ilan Baruch, Dr. Alon Liel, and Eli Barnavi.
This, together with the South African application to the International Court of Justice (submitted quite independently) will hopefully bring senior politicians and army officers one step closer to being held accountable for the gravest of crimes that they are aiding and abetting.
The full letter is appended below, after the Guardian report.
RK
This article was originally published by the Guardian on Wed 3 Jan 2024. Read the original here.
Israeli public figures accuse judiciary of ignoring incitement to genocide in Gaza
Letter to attorney general and state prosecutor demands action to stop ‘explicit calls to commit atrocious crimes’
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The depravity of Zionists is on show here for all to see. However, this is not new. Ever since Zionists decided in 1897 that they were going to colonise Palestine, their intention to remove Palestinians from Palestine by any means possible was made clear, and demonstrated by the murderous Zionist terrorist gangs in the lead up to their declaration of independence in 1948. The murder of Palestinians by Zionists has continued ever since.
South Africa has put all of these individuals and their apologists in the West on notice that they will be prosecuted
Nuremberg II
Genius is knowing when to stop
Incitement to mass genocide seems evident from reported and not refuted apparently freely expressed statements by populist politicians inside Israel.
In my observation, English establishment media is remarkably tolerant of it.
I fear that there are those on both sides who consider insufficient blood has been spilled. I hope I am wrong.
And these people are no doubt the first to condemn hate-speech against Jews.
Israel’s rulers present this ‘war’ as the same as the Nazis to the Jews in Germany 1940s and, that Hamas IS Palestine and thus all Palestinians are Nazis and thus, it is completely legitimate for self-protection, for Israel to annihilate all Palestinians/Palestine.
This is nonsense and is a logistics to justify what appears to me to be a vicious racist hatred of an Arabic peoples who have a right to live in and farm much of the land in this part of the world.
As far as I can tell, there has never been a call anywhere for an annihilation of all Germans, despite the Nazis. The War that ensued from the other countries that became involved, was primarily a defensive War against the Germans taking over their countries. The Nazi murder of Jews was simply RACIST, since the Jews per se, did not threaten take-over, colonisation, or actual danger to the German people at large. In any case, the Nazi hatred of Jews extended across the German borders to peaceful countries, and the major reason for their attacks was imperialism and to take over ownership of other countries.
There is a parallel in that the Israelis, like the Nazis, want to have all the land for themselves. The Palestinians have every right to part of this land, too. How does Israel square this right? – make Palestinian(s) bad: create a racist aversion, even hatred, of this group of people to justify actions that kill or drive these people out.
We, yet do not know the full reasoning behind the initial Hamas attack – because surely, Hamas would have known Israel would throw everything they had back at Gaza, and that this would far outweigh the Hamas capabilities and be un-winnable (whatever that means). I have read that there are young Gazan …
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Please see the youtube video from 2013 titled “Israel is destroying itself by the its settlement policy”, how prophetic, particularly William Sieghart’s argument at 15:15 – the one state solution “by annihilation of all gazans”!
You have revealed what has been suppressed for decades, America has enabled Israel to sink into madness. The quotes are only the tip of the iceberg of this monster Biden has set loose. Refusing to vote for a ceasefire has left us partners in genocide. He seems unaware he is damming Israel to generations of hatred and whatever was left of respect for America is going fast. Biden is stuck in another era, remembering Golda Meir, unaware she was a vicious terrorist. What else is there to say. Biden is not able and Trump is worse. I feel sick every day.