(Times of Israel) David Horovitz - While Israel's main TV stations headlined that the International Court of Justice "did not order a halt to the fighting" in Gaza, the court's decision was awful nonetheless, practically and morally. The court determined that South Africa's claim of genocide was plausible. Making plain that it was not finished with Israel and the interim stage of the claim of genocide against it, the court also required Israel to report back within a month on its progress in implementing the judges' demands that it "take all measures within its power" to prevent the killing or injuring of Gazans. The court cited at length a series of comments by Israeli leaders interpreted as suggesting that Israel's war is against all Gazans, quoted UN officials describing Gaza as unlivable, and airbrushed out Hamas - the instigator of the conflict and the prime cause of Gaza's deepening catastrophe. The court's measures were misdirected; it is from Hamas, not Israel, that Gaza's noncombatants must be protected by international measures. Were it not for Hamas, they would not be in danger. There would be no war. Israel would not be mourning its dead and seeking the return of its hostages. And tens of thousands of Israelis would not be internal refugees, displaced from their communities by Hamas - another part of the reality the judges overlooked. It should be obvious that if Israel had any intent to commit genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, there was nothing to stop it bombing Gaza to oblivion. Except it wouldn't do any such thing. Its leadership would not have ordered such an onslaught. Israel's conduct of its war against Hamas has been overtly designed to protect noncombatants - notably by pleading with them to leave war zones and overseeing humanitarian corridors for their evacuation. The overwhelming majority on the court essentially backed a monstrous aggressor, protecting a barbaric, death-cult Islamic government, indifferent to the well-being of the populations it governs, with genocidal ambitions against the state next door. And its judges are not done yet.
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