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International-UN-NGOs
Gaza genocide case 'meritless, counterproductive': US
2024-01-04
[GEO.TV] The United States hit out at South Africa for lodging the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
genocide case against Israel before the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
' top court. The US also dismissed charges against its ally over the conflict in the occupied territory.

The International Court of Justice in The Hague will next week hold hearings on a filing by South Africa that alleges "genocidal acts against the people in Gaza" and seeks to order Israel to end the military operation.

South Africa's request to end Israel's military operation in Gaza will be heard next week at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

"This submission is meritless, counterproductive and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever," White House National Security Council front man John Kirby told a briefing.

State Department front man Matthew Miller said separately that from a US assessment, "We have not at this point seen acts that constitute genocide."

"Genocide is, of course, a heinous atrocity," Miller told news hounds. "Those are allegations that should not make be made lightly."

South Africa has often criticized Israel and alleged parallels to its history of apartheid.

In The Hague application, South Africa says that Israel has been acting "with the requisite specific intent... to destroy Paleostinians in Gaza as part of the broader Paleostinian national, racial and ethnical group."

Posted by:Fred

#5  #4 addresses #2.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-01-04 11:52  

#4  ^You mean: if they can redifine the meaning of the word genocide, then they don't have to worry of ever called to account for that they do to white minority in South Africa?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-01-04 11:47  

#3  IDF says troops locate UNRWA daycare booby-trapped by local terrorists in West Bank
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-01-04 11:44  

#2  Early DEI beta-testing. A disaster of our own making. Alles volgens die plan (all according to the plan).

Posted by: Besoeker   2024-01-04 01:10  

#1  Genocide = killing 1% of the population?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-01-04 00:59  

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