The International Court of Justice issued a preliminary ruling today on the question of Israel and “genocide” in Gaza. It did not find that Israel had committed genocide — it left such findings of fact to a final determination — but found that there was a potential for genocide.
The text of the ruling is abysmal. It buys into anti-Israel propaganda and barely says anything about Hamas.
But the court merely order that Israel comply with its existing obligations, and that it produce a report within one month about how it is doing so.
In other words, there will be no cease-fire imposed on Israel, and the war can continue. South Africa failed in its mission to protect Hamas terrorists.
The South African president went on to lie about the ruling. Cyril Ramaphosa claimed victory, saying that the court had barred “further” acts of genocide by Israel — implying that it had found Israel had already committed such acts in Gaza. It did not.
Worth reading: former Israeli Supreme Court Chief Justice Aharon Barak wrote a blistering dissent.
https://icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240126-ord-01-05-en.pdf
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
