Most of the accusations against Israel come through Hamas,
Do you deny the level of civilian deaths in Gaza and the explicit war tactics of Israel in targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure?
but even if the trial uncovers this I now know that the ICJ is going to be accused of bias in favor of western countries. Therefore it is unlikely end end to subject no matter what it decides.
This seems like bias of your own. You're unwilling to believe Israel would engage in genocide, regardless of what the evidence may suggest.
Is a hospital a building which is used exclusively for healing, or is it a building used for healing and for directing military operations and storage of weapons? Is it still a hospital? I am not going to uphold that. Putting an ER onto an aircraft carrier doesn't make it a hospital ship.
This is just an excuse and you know it. If we follow this logic, there is no such thing as a civilian target.
"Is that a family home or a missile silo? There
could be weapons-grade uranium in that nursery. This refugee camp sure does look like it
could be used to manufacture mustard gas."
As far as you are concerned, Israel gets to target whatever it wants as long as it
says the target is somehow military. This is obviously an indefensible position. You would let a hospital filled with patients burn to the ground if Hamas stored a rifle in it and call that justified.
Note also that this logic doesn't remotely address the increased violence of Israeli settlers on the West Bank -
WHERE THERE IS NO HAMAS. The Palestinian settlements there could not possibly house Hamas arms, or be confused for Hamas bases of operations, and yet the Israeli government has stepped up violence against, and seizure of, these lands from the Palestinians living there. If Israel's intent were purely military, this would make absolutely no sense whatsoever. Why would they step up violence
in territories not controlled by Hamas that have no military structure?
Certainly the trial will allow for evidence to be brought forward, since, in this rare case the UN has taken great care to make sure and record every thing Hamas reports about Israel while supporting an uprising in Gaza both with storage of weapons training of new soldiers through its UNRAR racism schools. I cannot wait to see demonstrated in court just how cruel and foolish the UN is in spite of its golden words about itself. The trial may reveal it if the court is allowed. I hope it uncovers how so many missiles and guns have gotten into Gaza and with which UN official's authority and assistance. Wasn't it the UN that was supposed to be keeping an eye on things? Looks like somebody was and is two faced to me.
Any word whatsoever for the tens of thousands of civilian deaths in the region? Why no mention of that? Would you prefer the UN
not investigate why there is an extremely disproportionately high rate of civilian death in the region?
I see, so we have a trial to determine whether Israel has intended to kill some of the people of Gaza and to call that a genocide under subsections IIA and IIB. Meanwhile everybody else already has an established intent to wipe out the Israelis, and for that we need no trial. Essentially we are credulous that Israel could under so much pressure not become psychotic, so we're going to accuse them of being psychotic.
Again, this is just excuses and finger-pointing. Israel is a wealthy, developed nation that is currently engaging in bombing a densely populated city that is completely under its control. It is making decisions that have resulted in tens of thousands of civilian deaths. Those are the decisions made by its political and military leadership who can be held to account by the explicit laws and treaties they agreed to and are now believe to be breaking.
Other people doing genocide does not justify a genocide, and frankly I think you rhetoric - which essentially does all but explicitly declare that people in this region who wish Israel ill
deserve genocide as a result and deserve no recourse - is pretty morally indefensible. Especially when you apply your logic about how Israel "under so much pressure" would "become psychotic", as if this reasoning doesn't ALSO implicitly justify the actions and beliefs of groups like Hamas, who have blossomed under Israeli occupation and oppression.
I, too, would like Hamas brought to justice. But, right now, Hamas aren't the ones committing genocide. Israel is. And Hamas are not the majority victims of Israel's military strategy. Gazan civilians are. And we can do something to stop that. You'd rather we didn't, because "Miss! They did it first!".
Schoolyard logic should not be applied to nations.
