Donoghue said the court was “gravely concerned” about the fate of the hostages abducted from Israel on 7 October “and calls for their immediate and unconditional release”.
So, one insistence from the court, Hamas must release the hostages.
Israel is under renewed pressure to avoid civilian deaths in Gaza and enable the delivery of humanitarian aid after the international court of justice (ICJ) ordered it to prevent its forces from carrying out genocide against Palestinians.
In a historic interim judgment, the UN court in The Hague told Israel it must “take all measures within its power” to desist from killing Palestinians in contravention of the genocide convention, and to prevent and punish the incitement of genocide and facilitate the provision of “urgent basic services”. But the ruling stopped short of ordering a ceasefire to the war in Gaza.
The other is that Israel must not break the law.
Umm, yes, OK. Seems like the sort of thing a court would say. Don’t break the law.
What the court didn’t say is that Israel is breaking the law. Nor that it must stop it’s military actions, nor that there must be – however desirable – a ceasefire.
Now, obviously, views differ here. But we’ve not a plain and testable proposition.
Anyone who says that the ICJ demands a ceasefire is wrong. Anyone who claims the ICJ says Israel is committing genocide is wrong. Anyone who says everyone must do what the ICJ says but does not insist Hamas release the hostages is wrong.
Not, in this sense morally wrong – as could be true of any of those things – but simply factually wrong.
It’s gonna be interesting watching what people say to find out who is idiot – or partisan – enough to try to get away with such lies, isn’t it.
’Anyone who says that the ICJ demands a ceasefire is wrong.’
That little popinjay the Mayor of London needs to read this.
The bit I liked best in the article was where the US states it will not provide ‘additional’ funding for the UNRWA.
I really think it’s time we stopped paying organisations to be our enemies.
So UNRWA has immediately severed ties with a dozen staff members and opened an investigation. That must have been some pretty damned compelling evidence supplied by Israel – not exactly a country the UN is known for taking seriously.
How about actually detaining them Mr Guterres as you were allegedly horrified by the news? (Surely that should be “shocked, shocked I tell you”).
P.s. after delivering the verdict did the 16 out of 17 judges join the South African delegation in a rousing chorus of “Kill the farmer, kill the Boer”?
As the ICJ has (had?) a lawyer based with the IDF advising what is illegal (according to the good people at the the Defence of the Republic podcast) so they would have known in advance if Israel was breaking laws.
There’s a lot of very visible evidence that Israel isn’t attempting genocide, there’s still over 2m and increasing Palestinians in Gaza.
“GENOCIDE!”, screamed the people who just five minutes ago were dancing and celebrating the murder of little old Jewish ladies.
“GENOCIDE!”, screamed the organisation whose manifesto explicitly calls for genocide against Jews.
Allow me to whip out the world’s smallest violin, and then do a Nigel Kennedy for the Pallys.
Here’s another $730 million but don’t let me catch you spending it on anything naughty said the senile sniffer-in-chief.
OT but still WAR related. Remember we were told the Royal Navy needs to improve its Twitter game to match American levels of recruiting success?
That recruiting success:
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn’t graduate from high school or get a GED, marking the second time in about a year that the service has opened the door to lower-performing recruits as it struggles to meet enlistment goals.
The decision follows a move in December 2022 to bring in a larger number of recruits who score very low on the Armed Services Qualification Test. Both are fairly rare steps that the other military services largely avoid or limit, even though they are all finding it increasingly difficult to attract the dwindling number of young people who can meet the military’s physical, mental and moral standards.
Me be go work on a aircraft caddy!
#Defund the UN
And must SA Govt avoid deaths and genocide of Afrikaans – or is that OK?
If it isn’t committing genocide, how can it “desist from killing Palestinians in contravention of the genocide convention?” Desist, verb: stop doing something.
I’m disagreeing with Tim’s construction of the language used, not agreeing with the court.
Why should anyone care what some lawyers on a pretend court have to say?
Mouth noises can’t stop you.
Steve is (of course) correct. If there was such a thing as ‘international law’ then there’d be an agency responsible for international law enforcement*. There isn’t, so it’s all just a virtue-signalling circle-jerk.
* law that can only be ‘enforced’ if you’re on the losing end of a conflict – e.g. Milošević – doesn’t really count
And the ICJ judgment against Hamas will be coming along when?
Can’t you avoid genocide by keeping a breeding pair in captivity?
Can’t you avoid genocide by keeping a breeding pair in captivity?
I’m using this, you may hear a head exploding in Cyprus later today… 🙂
The ICJ has as much jurisdiction – and is as much of a court – as I do.