Belgium would not arrest Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visited the country, according to his Belgian counterpart Bart De Wever. “I don’t think there is any European country that would arrest Netanyahu,” he told VRT’s Terzake talk show on Thursday evening.
This reveals what “justice” means to politicians… It means full support for genocide.
What is even the point of having an optional criminal court?
The use of the word genocide is political. What’s happened is the anti-Israel movement has redefined the word genocide to mean “whatever Israel is doing”. Then that movement harasses and attempts to block any discussion on what the difference between a war and a genocide is.
This has led to the the anti-Israel movement (at this point it’s very obvious it’s not actually a pro-Palestinian movement) to become very insular and incapable of any kind of discourse with anyone that isn’t in alignment with their propaganda. You’re not fooling anyone but yourselves with this rhetoric, and it’s painfully obvious to anyone that this hate movement is only making things worse for Palestinians.
Genocide is actually very clearly defined under international law. To quote directly from the source:
Any single one of these criteria individually is enough to meet the definition of genocide. Every single one of these has already occurred and is ongoing, and it is only through pure delusion, media control, and wishful ignorance that anyone can claim otherwise.
There is virtually no dissent among actual scholars and experts in the field of international law, Israel is unequivocally perpetrating genocide. They have simply not been held to account for their actions yet, due primarily to complicity from allies and collaborators who do not want to be criminalized for their actions as well. People are also not their rulers, and they have been watching those running their governments provide diplomatic, strategic, and political cover for some of the worst atrocities in human history.
Make no mistake though, justice will come for Israel, and hopefully every state and individual actor who has supported and covered for it as well.
For people like yourself, I hope you understand that at some point in the future you’re going to have to live in a world that sees you for exactly what you are. Israel will be remembered as exactly what it is, and you will know you were one of its defenders.
When you hear stories of traumatized, maimed, orphaned children, of mothers forced to endure c sections without anesthesia, of the weeping friends and family of journalists, medical workers, educators, caretakers, and innocents of all walks of life as they and their loved ones were targeted and massacred by an inhuman genocidal apartheid state, you will have to reckon with the fact that you stood on the side of the perpetrators.
Would you be so kind as to define what genocide means in your own terms?
I’m also quite interested in knowing why you think pro-Palestinian movements are insular and not capable of debating anti-Palestinian viewpoints.
Do you think Palestinians in Gaza should be relocated from their land?
Lastly, are you in favor of illegal settlements in the West Bank?