Israel is resorting to insults to answer #ICJ4Israel genocide charges
A leaked cable from the Israeli Foreign Ministry suggests that that country is calling for foreign governments that support it to put “diplomatic pressure” on the International Court of Justice to drop its investigation into whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
The cable requests “an immediate and unequivocal public statement along the following lines: To publicly and clearly state that [COUNTRY-NAME] rejects the outragest, absurd and baseless allegations made against Israel”.
Note the use of the archaic term “outragest”, which
makes the request sound melodramatic, and lends it an unhealthy note of incredulity, as though the incredulity is the only substitute the Israelis can find for a real case,
according to Martin Odoni in his Critique Archives article on the tactic.
He writes:
The hope appears to be to get a collection of statements from other world leaders expressing similar incredulity, in order to make it look like the legality of Israel’s actions is an objective fact, and not a grossly-selective interpretation of International Law. These statements may prove inadmissible in the court, but they will still get a lot of air-time in the media, and are therefore bound to exert at least some pressure on the Justices.
Israel’s only answer, in short, is to behave like a nation-state yob, and try to reduce the court proceedings to a farce of name-calling and bullying by media. That Israel can only protect its ruthless military strategy from an injunction by effectively corrupting the legal process through politicking says everything we need to know. It is almost trial-by-media, and it is the unofficial confirmation on Israel’s part that its aim really is genocide. Were it not, it would keep proceedings strictly in-court.
That is an argument that makes perfect sense to This Writer.
If Israel tries to use the tactic described here in court, I hope South Africa’s lawyers make mincemeat of it.
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My pleasure!
If asking for help…Israel is GUILTY as charged.
Well fascist tories have history of constantly expressing outrage and claims of ‘wah this is an injustice’ whenever their cruel policies are scrutinised and critiqued. So fascist/zionist Israeli regime are no different and using bully boy tactics is a common political stance!
Hopefully South Africa’s lawyers will demolish these baseless lies because there is so much evidence proving fascist/zionist Israeli regime are committing genocide against the Palestinians!