By David Singer ——Bio and Archives--February 19, 2024
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has signalled that the United Nations could come under ICJ scrutiny if it fails to take any steps that could prevent genocide being committed in Gaza.
In a letter sent to South Africa and Israel by the ICJ on February 16, 2024:
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres needs to carefully consider why the ICJ highlighted his remarks and not those of other world leaders who have been similarly calling for ceasefires in Gaza and warning Israel against entering Rafah to eradicate those Gazans responsible for the invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023.
The United Nations is--contrary to those other leaders--in a unique position to prevent any genocide being committed in Gaza by transferring Gaza’s women, children, the sick and the elderly to any of the 50 refugee camps outside Gaza for which the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) provides services.
Instead the UN has chosen to keep Gaza’s population penned in Gaza where they constitute a human shield preventing Israel expeditiously neutralising those Gazans responsible for the murder, rape, hostage-taking, deliberate destruction of property and internal displacement of 100000 civilians in Israel.
UNRWA Commissioner General--Phillippe Lazzarini reported on 1February 13, 2024:
Did no-one present ask Lazzarini: “What about our 50 refugee camps outside Gaza?”
Guterres also has been strong on words but weak on action--ever since he released his falsely-misleading anti-Israel diatribe on October 24, 2023:
If anyone is responsible “for a political solution vanishing”--it is Guterres himself.
For the last 20 months Guterres has resisted bringing before the General Assembly and the Security Council an alternative to the two-state solution proposed in UN Security Council Resolution 2334 (2016): The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution published in the Saudi Government-controlled Al Arabiya News on June 8, 2022 by Ali Shihabi--an advisor to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
The “humanitarian nightmare with untold regional consequences” now warned by Guterres could well have been unnecessary had Guterres not buried the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution prior to October 7, 2023.
Secretary-General Guterres: Beware the ICJ.
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Author’s note: The cartoon — commissioned exclusively for this article — is by Yaakov Kirschen aka “Dry Bones”- one of Israel’s foremost political and social commentators — whose cartoons have graced the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades.
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David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International—an organization calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at: jordanispalestine.blogspot.com