UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, International Criminal Court Prosecutor, International Court of Justice President: Investigate the Possibility that Israel is Committing the Crime of Genocide Against the Indigenous Palestinian People.
But what we have isn’t peace. What we have is a continuing genocide, albeit one that has shifted gears and has—for now—moved into the slow lane. Rather than hundreds at a time, it is killing by twos and threes—an obscenity that has coalesced into a new normal. To quote a searing poem published last week by Fady Joudah: “After the genocide, the genocide.”
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The Palestinians, particularly of Gaza, have in the place of law only a condemnation to rightlessness in perpetuity—an inescapable hell. Rhetorical invocations of human rights ring hollow for precisely this reason. Israel’s genocidal campaign seeks to accomplish the same feat as all genocidal campaigns before it—the reduction of a people to their bare humanity, to their biological existence. It is a testament to the Palestinian people, however, that, despite decades of subjugation and ghettoization in intolerable conditions this aspiration has not been realized.
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