The ICJ has not done that. Parties have entered such statements into evidence. As statements.
What is your version of why this is a genocide? How do you define it?
There has not been Zionism for decades now. Israel is an Arab country. Just not your religion.
Leap1,
Regrettably, Zionism is as viralent as ever, with even our current president proclaiming himself to be one.
As Jew (on my Mom’s side), I’m well aware of the history of Zionism. Like many other Orthodox Jews, I condemn the movement and its goal of a “Greater IsraeL” for that being the secularist, Marxist movement it is, and totally without Talmudic justification, never mind that such a goal will ultimately destroy any legitimacy Israel once might have had.
The Saudis, UAE, and others disagree.
But if one is Orthodox Jewish one can not get much more obsessive. Take things as abstract notions. Because they are not huge massive piles of concrete. I get you seem to have shed your Orthodoxy but obsessive much?
Look a majority of the Syrian tribesmen in the TransJordan made peace with Israel and depend on Israel for security.
Those who have not have fought a war for 80 years. The structures governing them are not nations or tribes. Removed the tribes make peace and security. The situation could not stay the same. Hamas and the PLA are not giving their communities freedom and rights. The groups are not making peace with Israel.
Israeli courts have generally paid out reparations. Two things in a mix can happen in Gaza. Some will leave. Hamas will be mostly gone. The tribes will take their place in leadership. The second thing the rebuilding of Gaza again will be in the form of Israeli reparations. EU and US will chip in. The Gazans will have an investment. This can have legs.
The Palestinian Israeli citizens and Jordanian Palestinians with Israelis are totally trustworthy of each other.
It is possible to bring the rest of the Palestinians in under the terms of the tribal leaders.
We have to move on.
You are not the first Jew to not come to grips with prejudice against him.
The Zionist movement was one of European Jews coming to found Israel. Israel is not an Ashkenazi nation. Israel is a Sephardic and Palestinian nation. Arab 75%. The Ashkenazi is not far behind with Middle Eastern Y Chromosomes.
The Arab rulers need a landing zone for their dictatorships. France versus England, English reform worked for the Monarchs. This is not lost on the Arab rulers.
Israel offers a lot to the Arab nations. Swaying the Arab public takes time and two steps forward one step back.
Leap,
There’s nothing obessive about wanting peaceful co-existence with one’s gepgraphical neighbors --be they Musum, Christian, Jewish, Zeroaster, Druze, or whatever --as has occasionally prevailed in past centuries in West Asia.
So one has to ask, “Whom does the present conflicts benefit?” In fact, "Who instigated most of them? "
Trace back the history, not just a couple of decades, nor a couple of centuries, but all the way back to when the waves of humans emerged from Africa. Who has “proper title” to now contested lands? Same-same here in the US. Who is the explorer? Who is the johnny-come-lately invader? What might be the best path to achieve justice?
I don’t know. But I do know that the US’s aiding yet another genocide and its funding of Israel’s war crimes needs to stop.
Leap,
Who are these “Arabs” you speak of? Palestine is no more “an Arab country” than England is an “Anglo-Saxon” country.
In what year was the cluster of islands now called “the British Isles” begun to be re-settled after the retreat of the glaciers some 20,000 years ago? And which tribes did the resettling? The Picts, the Celts, the Romans, the Jutes, the Frisans, the Angles, the Saxons, and later the Normans, etc. In modern days, other groups, chiefly from Brittan’s former colonies, but also North Africa, etc. Depending on who is taking the swab sample and how good their field techniques are, population distributons and persistences can be guessed at. But the real truth of the matter is that Brits are genetic mongrels, as are the inhabitants of the Levant.
For sure, all tribes and breding pools like to think they are some how special and unique, and often enough they do differ among each other by culture and languages if not also by supercial physical differences. But, as is well known, those physical differences vary more widely within supposedly separate gene pools than between them. In short, us modern humans are just a single species who–very late in human history-- likes to group itself into very artifical political units called “countries” or “nations”, one of which happens to be called “Palestine”. But that is only the most recent version of a dozen other names that might have been applied to the terrority bordering the eastern Med as successive waves of travelers and invaders passed though it and chose to settle or not.
So, the reality is this. How anyone got to present-day Palestine doesn’t matter as much as their need to get along with each other, or else all perish in endless, pointless conflicts over fictional real estate contracts and silly ideas about "national “identity”. That isn’t to say that borders don’t matter. They are absolutely crucial if civil order is to pevail. But their maintentance --or establishment-- isn’t worth killing for.
You don’t seem to value human life. I do. I want the Israels to stop the killing being done by them. And shame on the world for not stepping in 76 years ago in 1948 when the Israelis committed the Nakba.
Define genocide in this instance. Don’t just say the word, please define how it applies.
