[Peace-discuss] Fw: UIUC’s Francis Boyle is interviewed on “Democracy Now!” Tuesday, 2 January, 2024

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 Karen:  Thanks for this.  Democracy Now has the best coverage of the Israel war on Palestine every night on the 'Net!  It was a great interview with Francis Boyle.  I watch it every night from 8-9 pm on Eastern Illinois University's PBS First Nation Experience Channel 51.2 rebroadcast of the 7:00 show because I can't receive WILL where I live in Savoy.  I only wish   Karen Aram were here to have seen it!  R.I.P.
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 Dear Peace Discuss,[Check out UIUC’s Francis Boyle is interviewed on “Democracy Now!” Tuesday, 2 January, 2024. -Karen Medina] 
Democracy Now! title of interview: “South Africa Files Genocide Case Against Israel at International Court of Justice”
Link to the audio and the written transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/2/south_africa_israel_genocide_icj


Basic notes from the interview: 
* ’South Africa has filed a case at the main judicial body for the United Nations, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. 
* PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: The collective punishment of Palestinian civilians through the unlawful use of force by Israel is a war crime. The deliberate denial of medicine, fuel, food and water to the residents of Gaza is tantamount to genocide.
* Boyle believes South Africa will win an order against Israel to cease and desist from committing all acts of genocide against the Palestinians

* Why South Africa? > there is a direct comparison between the Israeli apartheid system on all the Palestinians
* Why the International Court on Justice (ICJ)? > Orders of the ICJ can do a lot.
* Examples of past successes through ICJ: stopping the genocide of Bosnia (and Herzegovina) by Yugoslavia
* “We here in the United States of America have the power to stop this” [genocide]. Israel has a history of listening to the United States’ orders to stop its assaults on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. 
* Other examples: To stop U.S. President Reagan’s war against Nicaragua 


Who: Francis A. Boyle, a human rights lawyer, professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. His books include:
* “The Bosnian People Charge Genocide” (1994) Aletheia Press, 
* “Palestine, Palestinians, and International Law” (2003) Clarity Press, 
* as well as “World Politics, Human Rights, and International Law” (2021) Lexington Books.
[To see the 19 book titles, see his list of publications: https://experts.illinois.edu/en/persons/francis-a-boyle/publications/ ]
* from his College of Law bio: “Over his career, Francis Boyle has represented national and international bodies including the Blackfoot Nation (Canada), the Nation of Hawaii, and the Lakota Nation, as well as numerous individual death penalty and human rights cases. He has advised numerous international bodies in the areas of human rights, war crimes and genocide, nuclear policy, and bio-warfare. From 1991 to 1992, Boyle served as Legal Advisor to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations.”
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