Destroying HUMANITY Who will stop ISRAEL?

Destroying HUMANITY Who will stop ISRAEL?
United States Complicity and Failure to Prevent the Israeli Government's Unfolding Genocide of Palestinians
November 13, 2023
The Israeli government is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza with unconditional U.S. support.
Genocide is the gravest of crimes under international law. As defined by the international Genocide Convention (1948), genocide refers to specific actions – such as killing or deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of a group in whole or in part – taken with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, the group targeted, including on ethnic or national grounds.

Numerous Israeli government leaders have expressed clear genocidal intentions and deployed dehumanizing characterizations of Palestinians, including “human animals.” At the same time, the Israeli military has bombed civilian areas and infrastructure, including by using chemical weapons, and deprived Palestinians of everything necessary for human life, including water, food, electricity, fuel, and medicine. Those statements of intent – when combined with mass killing, causing serious bodily and mental harm, and the total siege and closure creating conditions of life to bring about the physical destruction of the group – reveal evidence of an unfolding crime of genocide.

Since October 7, the Israeli government has killed at least 11,100 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including over 4,600 children, and injured more than 28,000. There is documented use of white phosphorus, and the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported that by early November, “Israel [had] dropped more than 25,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip,” the “equivalent to two nuclear bombs.” Israel’s constant bombardments and total closure of Gaza has resulted in the collapse of Gaza’s entire healthcare capacity. The World Health Organization has verified 250 attacks on hospitals, ambulances, healthcare workers and patients in Gaza and the West Bank. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) estimates that 1.65 million people have been internally displaced across Gaza (statistics in this paragraph are current as of November 13).

The Israeli government's argument of self-defense in response to the unlawful attacks by Hamas on October 7 that killed 1,200, including civilians, does not absolve it from committing crimes of its own: under international law, there is no justification for genocide. As as a matter of law or morality, there can be no justification for the lethal collective punishment and commision of the gravest of crimes – genocide – against an entire Palestinian population. The October 7 attacks do not obviate the US’ corresponding duty to prevent the continuation of the unfolding genocide.

Leading genocide legal scholars and historians of genocide and the Holocaust, including William Schabas, have identified features of the Israeli government’s rhetoric and military response as signs of genocide:

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