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

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For someone who has been pushing the lies began by Saddam Hussein about
depleted uranium, I am not surprised he is supporting this

‘Calculated Risk’: Israel to Fight South Africa’s Genocide ‘Blood Libel’ at
The Hague
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soldiers by the Gaza border on Dec. 29, 2023.

(TPS) Israeli representatives will appear before the International Court of
Justice in The Hague next week to challenge South Africa’s “blood libel”
accusing the Jewish state of committing genocide against Gazans in Gaza, a
government spokesman said on Tuesday.

The top-level government decision to enter a legal defense in the case,
which South Africa launched last week, is designed to avert an interim
order by the court calling on Israel to halt its offense against the Hamas
terrorist organization.
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“In giving political and legal cover to the October 7 massacre and the
Hamas human-shield strategy, South Africa has made itself criminally
complicit with Hamas’s campaign of genocide against our people,” Israeli
government spokesman Eylon Levy said.

Around 1,200 persons, mostly civilians, were murdered when thousands of
Hamas terrorists stormed through the border, while another approximately
240 were abducted to Gaza.

Levy said that the State of Israel will appear at The Hague to “dispel
South Africa’s absurd blood libel.” He accused Pretoria of “fighting
pro-bono for anti-Jewish racists.”

“We have no doubt that after the Jewish state brings to justice the
perpetrators of the bloodiest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, history
will judge South Africa for abetting the modern heirs of the Nazis,” he
said. “We assure South Africa’s leaders: History will judge you, and it
will judge you without mercy.”

South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice to issue an
interim order for Israel to immediately suspend its military operations in
the Gaza Strip.

A hearing on that request is expected to get underway next Thursday. The
case will take years, but an interim order could be issued within weeks.

A Calculated Risk
Israeli legal experts said Tuesday that Jerusalem is taking a “calculated
risk” in going to the court.

“At the end of the day, this is a political, anti-Israel court, so it is
unclear what their ruling will be,” said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, an
Israeli attorney, founder of Shurat HaDin—Israeli Law Center, who has
represented hundreds of victims in legal actions against terrorist
organizations and their supporters.

She said that Israel was counting on the “sane countries” of the world for
support in the public debate.

“There is a good chance that there will be a hostile decision against
Israel,” said Avraham Russel Shalev, a lawyer at the Kohelet Policy Forum.

He said that the battle in the court was not so much a legal threat as a
diplomatic and PR challenge. “The point of attending is not so much for
Israel to bring its case to the International Court of Justice but to the
court of public opinion,” he said.

Shalev noted that the court has issued decisions against the U.S., the
U.K., Russia and Israel in the past that were all ignored, including a
ruling against the security barrier during an earlier round of Palestinian
terrorism two decades ago.

Pretoria, which has close ties with Hamas, has been a fierce critic of
Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.

South Africa is bringing the case to The Hague under the U.N.’s 1948
Genocide Convention because both it and Israel are signatories to it.

“South Africa is cynically using the convention adopted after the Holocaust
against the very Jewish State that is protecting itself against Hamas
perpetrators of genocide after the single largest attack on Jews since the
Holocaust,” Shalev said.

On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 7:17 AM moboct1--- via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> 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.
> ----- Forwarded Message ---I--
> *From:* Karen Medina via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 2, 2024 at 05:30:09 PM CST
> *Subject:* [Peace-discuss] UIUC’s Francis Boyle is interviewed on
> “Democracy Now!” Tuesday, 2 January, 2024
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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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