This is one of the most important and terrifying documents published in our time.

It is the case submitted by South Africa in the International Court of Justice

and it accuses Israel of genocide.

Now what is so chilling about this document

is that it reads as though you are somehow

reading a great crime from the past,

as it seems to explain how this monumental horror

was made possible to a public which is astounded that such an

atrocity could ever have been tolerated at the time. But this is happening now,

right now, as I speak, and as you listen.

Now, this is an extremely important point to make.

In genocides in the past, there is often a historical debate later on

about how much people knew at the time and therefore how

complicit they were and whether this mass slaughter could have been stopped sooner.

It's therefore our responsibility to make sure everyone does know

about the mass extermination of Palestinians currently taking place in Gaza so there are

no excuses, no places to hide, and so pressure can be brought

on our governments to end their complicity.

That's because Western governments continue to back and arm Israel, making them directly complicit and partly responsible for one of the great crimes of our age, and the Western media has largely sought to hide the reality of this horror from the public.

You either have media outlets which act as overt cheerleaders for the Israeli military

or other outlets which frame this ongoing crime as Israel seeking to eliminate Hamas with a side debate

or whether its so-called response is proportionate where we can all agree to disagree that it's a subjective opinion

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