South Africa tried its best, but Israel won in the end. A sort of A win.....

By Andalusian Horseman in VisionaryeTalks

To those who think this is a step in the right direction. It’s not. This exposed that the ICJ is a hollow institution, without any action to enforce.

The ICJ basically said that we acknowledge the genocide that Israel is carrying out, but we don’t ask for a ceasefire. We simply “ask” Israel to stop what’s it is doing within and report back in a month of the findings.

That’s the whole ICJ for you and on top that Hamas has to release the hostages it has taken, but Israel will not release their 10,000 Palestinian hostages illegally incarcerated within their jails.

Do you honestly think, even for one second, that Israel will listen to what the ICJ is saying? It’s not even listening to Biden and he’s alright with a genocide.

You’re basically telling Israel to oversee and stop Israel committing genocide. You’re telling the perpetrator that I know you’re committing a genocide and I want you to stop it within a month and if you don’t then we don’t know what we’ll do. How can you expect a perpetrator to stop on its own when there’s nothing for it to loose if it does. It’s a sham.

If the ICJ had ordered a ceasefire, if they had ordered a third party to oversee the cessation of Israel’s genocide, then maybe the institution could’ve retained some sort of credibility, but instead that it’s emphasized that it doesn’t have any of that.

Israel has already said that it’s not going to agree or adhere to any of what the ICJ says, so in all honesty what was the point of announcing this decision. This was simply a condemnation of genocide. It was nothing more than that.

This ruling has set a precedent and a very bad one, that the last line of legal defense in the world holds no meaning. The law of the jungle supersedes all man made laws and Israel has seen to that. It doesn’t even realize that it sets a bad precedent for them as well.

History will remember this decision and it will remember what South Africa has done for Palestine, it will look kindly to South Africa, but to The Hague and the ICJ? Those two institutions have lost their credibility forever. This was the test of credibility for the institution, and it had failed it.

So what’s going to happen now?

Well Israel will carry out the genocide in full force just to spite the ICJ. Hamas will have to release the prisoners, because before the decision came they told that they would abide by the ruling of the ICJ. Once the hostages are returned, then Israel double down on air strikes in Gaza.

Hamas will have lost its leverage, and to some extent the internal situation of Israel will have been settled with the hostages returned. However, I do expect the resistance to ramp up their attacks on Israel, one of which is hitting Haifa port as they have announced.

Israel has also secured a deal of getting weapons from the US and this is for the war against Lebanon. The deal is rather large, worth billions of dollars, which means its preparation will be in full swing.

But there is good news, and it’s only a little:

Israel has been indicted as committing genocide, as if that wasn’t visible. It has now been accepted legally. Any country which helps Israel will come under condemnation and it will be legal for abetting Israel to commit the genocide.

Which means the US, UK and any other country which is going to provide aid, will be complicit in this genocide. It is a win, for the people. Because whenever Israel kills a Palestinian, it commits a violation of the ICJ. Although it doesn’t really care and it doesn’t affect them. It presents a strong case for those who are against the genocide.

This gives justification to the Houthis, who are attacking ships to stop the genocide or the axis of resistance. It gives them the legal basis to launch their attacks on Israel and if someone does take them to court, then they can argue they were doing it in the interests of the Palestinians.

Though there will be no active measures taken by the court to stop the genocide or even  impose a ceasefire, this little win is sufficient for some people.

I guess we will have to see how this all plays out.

Thanks for reading. I respectfully copied this good article from the publication "Medium Daily Digest", the author is relatively new to me, but he represents a brilliant way of thinking and reasoning, at least within this horrible conflict/genocide taking place in front of the entire world,  again my many thanks to all for following.