By Kevin Barrett, for the forthcoming issue of American Free Press, posted here for paid subscribers only
Craig Murray, the former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, has been leading an effort to convince at least one nation to invoke the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Murray notes that Israel’s slaughter of civilians in Gaza, and the openly genocidal language of its leaders, makes this a clear-cut case: “Suddenly, not only is genocide occurring with a scale and rapidity that is simply stunning – in six weeks in Gaza ten times the number of children have been killed as in two years of war in Ukraine – but the western nations are roaring on a racial extermination that dehumanises its victims.”
International law offers a clearcut definition of genocide:
In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group". These five acts were: killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. — Wikpedia, “Genocide”
Israel is obviously guilty of genocide. For more than a century, Zionist leaders have known, and occasionally stated, that the only way to implant a “Jewish state” in Palestine is to destroy the Palestinian people. During the past century Zionist terrorists have continued to kill Palestinians, cause them gross bodily and mental harm, and impose living conditions on them intended to annihilate them as a people. During the past ten weeks that genocide campaign has shifted into high gear.