(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch - While purporting to be a legal decision, the latest order of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was nothing more than a cheap trick designed to snag Israel. In December 2023, South Africa, acting on behalf of Iran's proxy, Hamas, initiated an assault on Israel in the ICJ, claiming that it was Israel - and not the homicidal terrorists from Gaza who carried out the October 7, 2023, massacre - who had engaged in genocide. The convoluted decision of the court gave rise to a false and deliberately misleading claim that the ICJ had found plausible evidence that Israel had committed genocide. Months later, after substantial damage to Israel's reputation had already been caused, the former president of the court, Joan Donoghue, clarified that no such decision was ever made. For decades, Israel has maintained its sovereign right to refuse to participate in medieval-style UN witch hunts and "kangaroo courts," the mandates of which had already found Israel and the Jews guilty as charged before any investigation was ever carried out. The writer served for 19 years in the IDF Military Advocate General Corps and was director of the Military Prosecution in Judea and Samaria.
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