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Hi Friend,
On January 16, I spoke with Louis Boreham of the Truth Over Comfort podcast about Israel’s genocide in Gaza, South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the US government’s complicity in this crime against humanity.
Louis questioned whether Israel’s military operation meets the definition of “genocide” under international law, and I explained why it does.
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As an update to events since this interview was recorded, the ICJ on January 26 ordered Israel to carry out provisional measures to fulfill its obligations under the Genocide Convention. South Africa’s case is
ongoing, but in the meantime, the court agreed, the civilian population must no longer be the target, and humanitarian aid must be allowed in. Israel must report to the ICJ about all measures taken to fulfill its obligations, but the Netanyahu government immediately announced that the ICJ will not stop Israel from continuing what it has been doing.
In essence, the ICJ determined that South Africa had made a plausible case that Israel has been committing genocide.
Specific topics Louis and I discussed include:
- How I got started as an independent researcher and writer speaking out against the US government’s lies about 9/11 and the lies used to justify the illegal war of aggression against Iraq in 2003.
- How we can see with satellite imagery that Israel’s declared intent to render Gaza uninhabitable has been executed as a matter of policy on the ground.
- Just as none of Israel’s systematic violation of the human rights of the Palestinians could possibly justify Hamas’s atrocities against Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023, neither do the 10/7 atrocities justify Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.
- Why the claim that the reported death toll among Palestinians is greatly exaggerated cannot be taken seriously.
- Why the
claim that Israel is targeting Hamas while avoiding harm to the civilian population of Gaza cannot be taken seriously.
- How Israel’s current military operation in Gaza compares with its past operations to “mow the lawn” in Gaza.
- How more children were killed in just the first 3 weeks of Israel’s military assault on Gaza than in all of the world’s other conflict zones combined for each of the three preceding years.
- How the proportion of women and children killed by Israel is roughly approximate to what we would expect if Israel was randomly bombing to indiscriminately kill civilians.
- Why Israel’s claim that is does everything possible to avoid harm to civilians is insulting to the intelligence of any free-thinking and moral human being.
- How Israel’s operation in Gaza has been carried out with openly genocidal intent.
- Why the claim that Israeli has been allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza is an inhumane cynical farce.
- Why the claim that Palestinian civilians only ever die because they are being used by Hamas as “human shields” is a demonstrable lie.
- How the term “human shields” is used as a euphemism to mean any Palestinian civilians killed by virtue of their being in Gaza.
- Why the claim that Israel ended its occupation of Gaza in 2005 is false, and how Israel has kept Gaza under an illegal siege since 2007.
- Why Hamas’s rule in Gaza is a direct consequence of Israeli and US government policies.
- Why Israel’s military operation violates the Genocide Convention and meets the definition of “genocide” in that treaty.
- How counterfactual arguments that begin “if Israel was committing genocide, it would…” to deny genocide are a non sequitur fallacy that overlook how Israel is perpetrating
this crime within the limits of what is politically feasible.
- Why the only reason that Israel is able to perpetrate genocide is because of US government support for its crimes against the Palestinians.
- Why we Americans have a moral obligation to ensure that the US government does not perpetrate crimes against humanity in our name.
- How more Palestinians could die from malnutrition and disease than have been killed by Israel’s indiscriminate bombing.
- What will happen to Gazans now that so many no longer have homes to return to?
- Why I don’t think that once Israel’s military operation is over that the situation will go back to the status quo that existed before 10/7 because the thin veil has been lifted and
the true face of modern political Zionism has been revealed.
- How Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has maintained a policy of utilizing Hamas as a strategic ally to block any movement toward peace negotiations with the Palestinians.
- How Israel was established by ethnically cleansing Palestine and exists as a Jewish supremacist state founded on a manifest rejection of the fundamental human rights of the land’s indigenous inhabitants.
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