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☆ Opinion | Don’t Turn Away From the Charges of Genocide Against Israel
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Megan K. Stack | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

With the question of whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza now before the International Court of Justice, the Biden administration has struck a tone of glib dismissal. “Meritless” seems to be the agreed-upon term among U.S. officials. “The charge of genocide is meritless,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken intoned from a podium in Tel Aviv this week. “Meritless, counterproductive, and without any basis in fact whatsoever,” blustered the National Security Council spokesman John Kirby. Top Israeli political and military leaders have themselves helped to bolster the case against their government.

Persons: Biden, “ Meritless, Antony Blinken intoned, ”, John Kirby, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, —, “ Organizations: International Court of Justice, National Security, Gaza Locations: Israel, Gaza, ”, Tel Aviv, South Africa

☆ Israel denies genocide accusations at top UN court, says war in Gaza is self-defense
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Christian Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

South Africa and Israel are signatories to the 1948 Genocide Convention, meaning they are obliged not to commit genocide and to prevent and punish it. South Africa has asked the court to order Israel to suspend its military campaign in Gaza. In January 2020, the court granted The Gambia’s request for provisional measures to protect the Rohingya people remaining in Myanmar from genocide. A 2022 report by Human Rights Watch found continued abuses against the Rohingya remaining in Myanmar, despite the provisional measures. South Africa cited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Israeli forces on October 28, ahead of the imminent launch of its ground offensive in Gaza.

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☆ ‘Erase Gaza’: War Unleashes Incendiary Rhetoric in Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Mark Landler | More About Mark Landler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

Shock, grief and pain have cascaded across Israel since Hamas gunmen poured out of Gaza to kill an estimated 1,200 Israeli civilians and soldiers on Oct. 7. Mr. Netanyahu suspended Mr. Eliyahu, saying that his comments were “disconnected from reality.”Mr. Netanyahu says that the Israeli military is trying to prevent harm to civilians. Such reassurances are also belied by the language Mr. Netanyahu uses with audiences in Israel. “Gaza nakba 2023.”The rise in incendiary statements comes against a backdrop of rising violence in the West Bank. It will also make Israelis more inured to the civilian death toll in Gaza, which has isolated Israel around the world, he added.

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☆ Opinion | We Still Have Time to Stop the Worst
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Omer Bartov | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

But are Israel’s actions — as the nation’s opponents argue — verging on ethnic cleansing or, most explosively, genocide? That means two important things: First, we need to define what it is that we are seeing, and second, we have the chance to stop the situation before it gets worse. That’s well over five times as many people as the more than 1,400 people in Israel murdered by Hamas. War crimes are defined in the 1949 Geneva Conventions and subsequent protocols as serious violations of the laws and customs of war in international armed conflict against both combatants and civilians. There is still time to stop Israel from letting its actions become a genocide.

Persons: —, ”, Benjamin Netanyahu, Gazans, “, Amalek, Yoav Gallant, Ghassan Alian, Giora Eiland, Amichai Friedman, Netanyahu Organizations: Gaza Health Ministry, Criminal, United Nations, Israel Defense Forces, ”, Israeli Ministry of Intelligence, Nahal Brigade, West Bank, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington , D.C Locations: Gaza, Israel, Geneva, Rome, The State, Sinai, Lebanon, ”, Washington ,, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

☆ In Israel and Gaza, Losing Sight of a Shared Humanity - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Nicholas Kristof | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Israel’s invasion of Gaza is destroying tunnels, ammunition dumps and Hamas fighters, yes. But I’m afraid it’s also helping to pulverize the recognition of shared humanity that in the long run allows people to live beside one another in peace. I pressed her, and she insisted it was fine even to kill a 5-year-old Israeli child, because “they are all Jews and Zionists.”That conversation pretty much broke my heart. “Extremists need each other, support each other,” Eyad al-Sarraj, a Gaza psychiatrist who died in 2013, once lamented to me. He complained that Israel’s blockade of Gaza since 2007 had turned Hamas fanatics into popular heroes.

Persons: it’s, Benjamin Netanyahu, “, ” Netanyahu wasn’t, Eyad Organizations: Islamic Locations: Gaza, United States, Israel, East Jerusalem, Palestinian

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