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The Owen Jones Podcast

This Proves Israel Violating Genocide Convention - And Defying ICJ Orders

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Government, News, News & Politics, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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How can the Israeli state possibly defend itself from this?

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0:00.0

Well, this smoking good evidence is impossible to report.

0:03.4

A little recap, Israel is on trial in the world's highest court,

0:06.7

the International Court of Justice, for alleged violations of the 1948 Genocide Convention.

0:11.7

Last week, the court issued a series of provisional orders to prevent genocide

0:16.4

and gave Israel one month to report back on its progress.

0:19.6

Now in a previous video I've examined how the slaughter has only escalated since the ICG ruling.

0:23.4

ICJ ruling, while the demand to secure humanitarian aid has been derailed by the main humanitarian

0:28.7

agency, UNRWA being financially strangled because of accusations of terrorism against 0.04% of its employees.

0:37.0

Obviously the Genocide Convention prohibits the active genocide, that is as it defines it,

0:41.0

acts committed with intent to destroy and whole or in part a national,

0:44.9

ethical, racial or religious group.

0:47.5

But it then lists five acts which shall be punishable as it says, clearly genocide, but among them conspiracy to commit

0:53.7

genocide attend to commit genocide complicity in genocide but also

0:57.3

importantly direct and public incitement to commit genocide so to be clear you not simply a violation of the genocide convention if you commit genocide. So to be clear you're not simply a violation of the Genocide

1:03.9

Convention if you commit genocide, but if you incite genocide. Interestingly Israel

1:09.2

itself translated in 1950 that 1948 Genocide Convention into its own domestic law.

1:16.0

Obviously I don't believe for one moment Israel's leaders ever envisaged such legislation to ever relate to Israel's own treatment of the Palestinians, given it was only introduced two years after

1:24.3

the so-called Nackpa, that is the catastrophe in which three quarters of a million Palestinians were

1:29.2

driven from their homes, 15,000 in the massacre in the process.

1:32.8

Nonetheless, the law is the law,

1:34.6

and according to Israel's 1950, crime of genocide,

1:37.7

prevention and punishment law,

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