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🗓️ 9 July 2025
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0:00.0 | Okay, this is big. |
0:02.3 | Israel's own lawyer has denounced his own state for its intent to commit a war crime and crime against humanity. |
0:09.9 | This is Eyal Benvenisti. |
0:11.7 | He represented Israel, the International Court of Justice, the highest court on earth. |
0:16.7 | This is where Israel was forced to defend itself against genocide charges brought by South Africa. |
0:22.2 | Let's be clear here, by the way. |
0:23.7 | Benvenisti was completely and utterly wrong in his defence of Israel against the charge of genocide. |
0:30.0 | Indeed, it is the consensus of genocide scholars, including Israeli genocide scholars, |
0:34.7 | such as Omar Barthav, Rassigal, Amos Goldberg, Daniel Blackman, |
0:38.9 | Dr. Shmuel Lederman, that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. |
0:44.9 | The point here is that even Israel's own council, who was selected by his own state to defend it |
0:50.8 | from accusations of genocide, has now come out to condemn Israel's plan |
0:54.9 | to force the surviving population of Gaza into a concentration camp |
0:59.0 | as a war crime and a crime against humanity. |
1:03.1 | Now, indeed, as Palestinian academic lawyer, Nima Sotanyi notes, |
1:07.5 | in 2020, Benveneesey authored a document rejecting the jurisdiction of the |
1:11.9 | international criminal court over Israel's crimes. Now, some of you at this point might be going, |
1:17.3 | well, do we really need this Israeli lawyer to tell us that forcibly herding a civilian |
1:22.2 | population to a concentration camp as a war crime and a crime against humanity? |
1:25.6 | This is actually important, And let's explain why. |
1:28.3 | And then I'll tell you what he said, as well as some other extremely crucial information that you need |
1:33.3 | to know about the genocide. This was brought to my attention by the brilliant academic Alonzo Gimendi, |
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