12/1/2024–|Last updated: 12/1/202411:56 PM (Mecca time)
Jewish academic and researcher on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Norman Finkelstein, said that there are 3 basic elements that would influence each judge when making a decision regarding South Africa’s lawsuit before… international justice Court Which accuses Israel By committing Genocide In its war on Gaza strip.
Thursday witnessed the start of trial sessions on charges of committing genocide in Gaza, which I filed South AfricaThe 84-page lawsuit indicates that Israel failed to provide basic food, water, medicine, and fuel, and to provide shelter and other humanitarian assistance to the residents of the Strip.
Finkelstein explained, in an intervention on Al Jazeera, that the first of these elements is represented in what is revealed by the legal facts presented by the parties in the trial, and the second is in the political pressures that will be exerted on each member by his state, and finally, his credibility as a judge in the court and the credibility of the court in general will be affected, if a ruling is issued. A ruling that contradicts popular perceptions of the case.
He did not rule out that it would be practiced Jewish lobbies There is pressure not to issue a ruling against Israel, but he believes that this pressure will be exerted at the level of the various governments towards their judges.
Regarding whether Israel’s image would be damaged if a ruling was issued against it by the court, the Jewish academic confirmed that the image had already been permanently damaged, due to the genocide it was committing in Gaza, and then just because the case was being considered before the court even if no ruling was issued against it.
Finkelstein believes that if a ruling was issued by the International Court of Justice against Israel, this would cause “a certain degree of discomfort” to the US President. joe biden And his Minister of Foreign Affairs Anthony Blinkenas he put it.
