Its s creation of Western political initiative.
Who is the head of the court?
A US citizen and one who has been part of US govt.
What has been the percentage of citizens of various countries heading the court?
A sincere question, sunce I don't know.
Where do the funds of the court largely come from?
Another sincere question.
The general orientation provided by the global dominance of Western leadership is also a factor.
Would the ICJ want to embarrass its primary owners, yes, owners, by going radically against them?
Hence, they have simply repeated the pius nonsense coming from the US, only added some requirements to be delivered in one month, by which time Israel would have continued in its daily bombardment and dehumanization of Palestinians, making further progress in doing to them what was done to Jews by the Romans when they dispersed them after destroying the temple, if I have the history right.
The West is largely in charge of the global institutions they created and sited in their own countries, ICJ, World Court, World Bank, UN etc.
The location of these institutions carries great symbolic, economic and leverage value. Its not inconsequential, as you claim.
Their location represents their significance as indices of a world order created by the West and largely in the interests of the West.
Moving forward, these world bodies should be situated on different continents, instead of the current concentration in Europe and the US.
All countries should also have equal votes as to who leads them.
Until the world wrests control of these bodies from the US and Europe, such bodies with potential power to deliver justice equitably will not deliver such justice.
We are faced with an emergency of historic proportions, and the best the court has been able to do is to tell the genocidists "We are not saying you should stop what you are doing. All we are saying is that you should not do what you are said to be doing and present evidence that you are complying".
Looks like nonsense to me.
The court is being saluted for giving credence to the presentations by SA of how Israel is prosecuting the war.
So?
Am I to salute you for agreeing thr sun is shining when its broad daylight?
Israel has got the message,the same message the US has been pushing.
"We are okay with your doing whatever you want to do to gain total advantage in Gaza, including destroying the place and killing as many people as possible to break them in the name of defeating Hamas but do it before people's outcries make us look too bad".
The real agents of historic lessons here are Hamas and the Palestinians.
In spite of the epic bombardment, Hamas are still holding the hostages and their leadership are neither surrendering nor trying to flee Gaza.
How are they doing it?
Anyone who has followed the history of this conflict will not be surprised by the totalistic savagery of the Israeli response.
I wonder how well Hamas calculated the pros and cons of Oct 7 and if they would do it again if they could go back in time.
As it is, just as the Nazis conceived and carried out what they called The Fimal Solution to the Jewish Problem, Israel is carrying out what they hope is The Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem, only things are not going as predictably for Israel as they did for the Nazis.
The Jews were completely helpless as entire populations were dehumanized and almost completely destroyed.
But the Palestinians are not equally helpless, as represented by Hamas, who are able to respond savagely to Israeli savagery, though at a very much smaller scale, even though Hamas has only the smallest fraction of Israeli capability, and even though the US and other Western countries are ceaselessly supplying the most destructive weapons to Israel to facilitate the decimation of the Palestinians in defending the colonialist Israeli vision, Hamas has got no supplies of anti-aircraft weapons, of jamming mechanisms to overwhelm Israel's iron dome anti -rocket network, of rockets capable of devastating Israeli cities, laying waste to Tel Aviv and other Israeli urban centres as Israel is doing to Northern and Southern Gaza, but the desperate resilience of the average Palestinians and the suicidal tenacity of Hamas, demonstrate what the US and Israel's European allies are compelled to reirerate, Israel's lasting security can only be through an equitably founded and justly structured Palestinian state.
The mistake they are making is in sustaining the claim that eliminating Hamas is the route to Israeli security.
Since Israel was able to make the leaders of its terrorist co-founders its prime ministers, such as Menachem Begin of Irgun, and others, Israel and its allies need to recognize that Hamas has earned its own place as a nation founder they cant discount.
A calculus of savagery in which all partners in the inequitably distributed inhumanity, Israel being the greater monster, must be given their due.
The Holocaust Traumatized Israelis and the Israeli Traumatized Palestinians.
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Toyin
