Kunal Mehta
https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-genocide-court-south-africa-27cf84e16082cde798395a95e9143c06
This is huge despite not outright calling for a ceasefire; I'm not sure how many more wake up calls the Biden administration needs to realize how isolated and *wrong* the US is on the Israel/Palestine war.
Evan Prodromou
@legoktm it says they have to stop killing Palestinians. I'm not sure how that's not a requirement for a ceasefire.
Evan Prodromou
@nemobis there are no "buts" in genocide.
Nemo_bis 🌈
@evan I agree but also I expect Israel to argue that their 1-ton bombs don't kill any human, or not any human proven to be a Palestinian, or at least not intentionally, or at least not as necessary consequence of some action from Israel, or that dropping a bomb which causes someone's death is not "killing", or if it is then it wasn't "within its power to prevent" it, and that any Palestinian casualty is somebody else's fault. We live in a bizarro world.
Kunal Mehta
@evan agreed, and that's basically what South Africa is saying.
https://accuracy.org/release/world-court-orders-israel-to-abide-by-genocide-convention-and-stop-killing/ had an interesting perspective on this:
"A ‘ceasefire’ is what you demand in an armed conflict. In a genocide you demand an immediate end to all genocidal acts and that is exactly what the ICJ ordered with immediate effect."
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