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Source: https://nationalinterest.org/feature/charging-israel-genocide-orwellian-208514
Charging Israel with Genocide Is Orwellian
(National Interest) Lawrence J. Haas - Three months after a genocidal, antisemitic terrorist group slaughtered 1,200 of its citizens in a barbaric fashion, Israel sits in the dock of the International Court of Justice, accused of committing genocide because it hasn't defended itself from future attack as pristinely as the world demands. It is a quintessentially Orwellian affair, a spectacle of the victim as the perpetrator, and it fits within a longstanding pattern of the global community holding the singular Jewish state to a singular human rights standard. It is Hamas which has set out to commit genocide against Israel and the Jewish people. Israel responded to the barbarism of Oct. 7 as one might expect, vowing to destroy the terrorist group so it could never again attack the Jewish state. What Israel is promising is nothing more than any responsible government would pursue in the aftermath of such an attack by such a group. Are innocent Palestinians dying in Gaza? Yes. Is Israel seeking to wipe out the Palestinians, as per the charge of genocide? No. The allegation is either rooted in willful blindness or moral bankruptcy - or both. The writer is a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council.