Opinion | Don’t Turn Away From the Charges of Genocide Against Israel
South Africa’s case before the International Court of Justice is crammed with evidence of breaches of the 1948 international genocide convention.
Hasnain says:
I know this is the opinion section, but even the NYT is talking about this now. Hoping the US admin (more specifically Biden) listens
“We should approach this question humbly, because we — Americans, the West — have repeatedly shown that we are good at recognizing genocide only in retrospect. Virtually every cataclysm we now know as genocide, including the Holocaust, was met, first, with doubt and linguistic quibbling until finally — and much too late — a declaration was made.
Rwanda, often mentioned just after the Holocaust in the dirty annals of genocide, was acknowledged as such only after Europeans and Americans wasted precious weeks prevaricating and dragging their feet, leery of intervention, while U.S. officials refused to say the word “genocide” in public. Denial of the Bosnian genocide has continued to this day.
When I read the document assembled by South Africa, my mind reeled: How could it happen? How was it allowed to happen?”
Posted on 2024-01-12T21:15:50+0000