ICJ Will Probably Find Israel Guilty of Genocide in Gaza, Top Senator Says
The Biden administration has fully supported the genocide in Gaza despite sporadic public criticisms
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., told an audience on Friday that she believes the International Court of Justice will eventually rule that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, as the death toll in the enclave approaches 34,000 and Tel Aviv plans an invasion of Rafah.
“If you want to do it as an application of law, I believe that they’ll find that it is genocide, and they have ample evidence to do so,” she told a mosque in Wayland, Mass, according to Politico.
She told the group: “For me, it is far more important to say what Israel is doing is wrong. And it is wrong. It is wrong to starve children within a civilian population in order to try to bend to your will, it is wrong to drop 2,000-pound bombs, in densely populated civilian areas.”
Warren managed to distance herself from the comment after her office told the outlet that she “commented on the ongoing legal process at the International Court of Justice, not sharing her views on whether genocide is occurring in Gaza.”
Her spokesperson told The Hill that, “Senator Warren believes that Prime Minister Netanyahu and his right-wing war cabinet have created a massive humanitarian disaster in Gaza and have not taken reasonable steps to protect civilians.”
TRENDPOST: it is worth noting that the pro-Israel U.S. government uses Netanyahu as the scapegoat and pretends that his opinion is not widespread in Israel. Indeed, 46 percent of Israelis want war with Hezbollah, according to a new poll.
Netanyahu rejected an interim judgment by the International Court of Justice after it refused to toss South Africa’s genocide case and insistence that Israel prevent the killing or injuring of innocent Palestinians.
Netanyahu tried to spin the ruling as a win for Israel—since the court did not call for an immediate ceasefire, and repeated the famous line that Israel has “the right to defend itself.”
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa embraced the court’s decision.
“After more than half a century of occupation, dispossession, oppression and apartheid, the Palestinian people’s cries for justice have been heeded by an eminent organ of the United Nations,” he said.
Kenneth Roth, the former Human Rights Watch executive director who has been called “the godfather of human rights,” called the interim judgment a “repudiation of Israel and its Western backers.”
He wrote a column for The Guardian and called the court’s ruling a “powerful repudiation of Israel’s denialism.”
“By an overwhelming majority, the court found a ‘plausible’ case that provisional measures were needed to avoid ‘irreparable prejudice’ from further Israeli acts in Gaza that could jeopardize Palestinian rights under the genocide convention,” he wrote. He continued: “Regardless of Israel’s history, regardless of its claim of self-defense, the means chosen to fight Hamas can still be genocidal. The court found enough merit in that claim to recognize that Palestinian civilians need the court’s protection.”