security in the village of indiana, india, and 1987 witnesses say the perpetrators or a mob of locals along side the state governments provincial. i'm constabulary personnel. over 30 years later, a district court acquitted the accused to date. no one has been as accountable people in power asks why the victims continue to be denied justice. india is forgotten. massacre on the jersey to his ram is carrying out the genocide and gaza at its leaders of the name inside says fence the accusation of the heart of south africa's chase of the you and was told as well since it's defending itself. and the nice thing on a gauge will this case, stop the suffering of palestinians and gusts. this is inside the

hello. welcome to the program. i'm a tree instead of going to the eyes of the world are on israel as it stands accused of genocide or the international court of justice of the hague. it's being forced on so for its actions and concepts is really forces of killed more than $23000.00 palestinians. most of the population has been forced from it, that homes at a blockade is depriving them of basic necessities, like food and water. the case was launched by south africa, but it's cooling on the court issue, a provisional order of israel to hold its military campaign. but did they make a convincing case on what a decision by the i c j make any difference? well, that's why i guessed in just a moment, but 1st a report from vincent on. as israel stands accused of genocide before the world's highest court, south africa's legal team told the international court of justice about death displacement and deprivation in gaza. school and framed is a part of a larger campaign by israel against the palestinian people,

dating back to 1948. this killing is nothing short of destruction of palestinian life. it is inflicted deliberately. no one is sped, not even newborn babies. the devastation resubmit is intended to and has laid waste 2 guys a beyond any acceptable legal, let alone humane justification. proving the case for genocide will require establishing intent. here south africa pointed the statements from top is rarely officials on the what the lead we are imposing a complete c, john gaza. they will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. every single be closed. so we are fighting against human animals, and we are acting accordingly. lawyers for south africa, said statements, dehumanizing palestinians, and calling for their death and displacement, speak for themselves. and then what state would i commit to

a general side of the intent? yet the distinctive feature of this case has not been the silence as such. but the time is that a petition. often no sight of speech throughout the sphere of states is right. israel is defending itself in court, claiming its actions are self defense and justified under the circumstances that he's here to the applicant has regrettably put before the court. a profoundly distorted factual and legal picture. the entirety of its case hinges on it deliberately. q rated deacon text realized and manipulative. description of the reality of current hostilities is rarely prime minister. benjamin netanyahu has already condemned the proceedings. not one of them coming bump, bloom. we fight terrace and we fight lies. today we again, so an upside down world,

the state of israel is accused of genocide while it's fighting genocide actually knew him it, but it's a whole decision by the i c. j is expected to take years, but the people of gaza can't wait that long. in the meantime, south africa's asked the court for provisional order for israel to stop its military campaign. this could happen within weeks. decisions of view as top court are binding, but it has no mechanism to enforce them. for now, israel is being forced to answer for its actions in front of the world. me to buy is and regardless of any decision by the court, the proceeding is likely to have an impact in the court of public opinion because it, which spends monahan, how does era for inside story that spring and i'll guess from cape town, we're joined by solutions and i do a senior research fellow at the institute for global dialogue, an independent foreign policy. the think tank in the us state of colorado is what

a side professor of lou on dean's faculty fellow at the university of colorado school of law, added london name assault on the rita in public school at the school of oriental and african studies at the university of london, a welcome to you all will look in depth at israel is response on saturdays inside story. in the meantime, lima well, south africa's arguments enough to persuade the court issue a provisional order of israel to stop its war on casa. yeah, they. so i think the lawyers have been in the unlikely argued nobody intends a fast law case for the issuing off the business. we need to remember that the size of the class for in the stage result of measures is different than the see stage of mass. so at this the stage,

so it's not required to show the loss is ashes. and more of the size statements are, is this natalie, jens, i, where they need to show is that these actions are these stations of table forwarding within the genocide prevention. that is a possible interpretation that these are those and then for the designers of genocide, the measure stage is the stage in which they call it says and josh, in order to prevent further notice of the genocide. but there's a place of most of the case that this is exist in order to allow the ration of my daycare somebody stage. but you can't wait for the form, but the information like that he is as far as i possibly just out of the campaign.

so i think the sol have taken to the cation pointed to, to me. and so the one that had a is, conduct a shows uh, at the bottom shows. did you decide on that? as well as explicit statements by different levels of is a policy make goes on between those and the soldiers that show again, genocide or that the combination of the salt faxes as well as the fact that be sure that there's an address. and then the issue a, these people might not us and the images we believe according consequences. so if we the middle stage, we looked at the previous test law by the end of justice as, as the cases off it'd be gone. this is my model. but think about it is highly likely that the cause will issue, but as long as requested bias of that,

all right, let's, let's bring in what do you then give them the time it takes for the, the i c, j to reach a verdict is pursuing the legal roots of south africa has done actually worth while . i certainly think so because if you think about the desperation of the situation on the ground and what the people of guys are going through, you know, any and all means are, you know, are i think of the found import at this time simply for showing i mean, i think the idea of establishing a record and a sort of, that establishing also the that the conduct of the, of these really military and is rarely officials has risen to such an incredibly dangerous and an serious level that it requires this type of international intervention by a country that isn't party to any hostilities as the israeli team has pointed out

today in their arguments. so what we're seeing here is a statement of solidarity, a statement that the palestinians been what they're going through haven't been forgotten. and that there is profound support around the world for establishing some sort of justice for what they've been for the people have does have been forced to endure during this whole. and, and you know, over 3 months period of incredibly violent bombs and, and, and, and other attacks. so i think so, certainly symbolically, it's important. i mean, your previous question to, to professor soltani about, you know, the, the, the import of this, etc. i think we can get a little too carried away with the idea of concrete solutions and interventions and is this binding and is there and then the force that mechanism. there's also a profound moral and legal argument that transcends borders and transcends just

this particular series of this particular violent cut, the violent conflict that's taking place solution, regardless of, of whether the, the i c, j, a, issues this provisional or as south africa done enough at least to sway the course of public opinion. and i certainly do think it has so many to really looking at the way in which social media spaces evolving. you've got a particular sections of social media, actually commending south africa saying thank you for taking this employee into the world's attention and using the international legal system. and the international abbreviating to contracts of international conventions like that. the 1948 genocide conventions and using the international law as the basis in which they have brought out the question of how to be a by the human rights international law principles, values and number 2, frame books,

which for us i think has been subjected to the kind of challenges that said, africa has also brought it to it's context of why they didn't ask. the system needs to be the full in terms of the month left for this kind of cool. so that takes a lot of criticism on this. we saw this last year with the bricks and with this, that africa would go ahead with the brakes because of russia and polluted and the whole i, c, c, a wrestler than a whole lot of questions around. so that because legitimacy, what's that? because done is that it's very carefully crafted, a legal, ultimate looking at the basis of what by 2 opinions have described as important questions. and i think in the court of public opinion, it's brought an issue to the full which in many ways i think has been so contentious when for so many years that just you didn't actually see the traction. we didn't see how this was going to happen. and i think be the, the way in which this has been done is that it used the christian off the 1948 genocide convention. but it was that in the context of intent. and here i think

it's very important to actually also raise the point that this is about the possibility of what's that? because putting out as an argument. so yes, it is clear, it is provisional as well. but it's also the question of, you know, despite what the ruling is from the i c j and how long they'll take to make this ruling in terms of what the, the, the president of the, of the quote above the justices sit this afternoon and wrapping up i think that you can no longer shy away from the fact that it's now there that the issue of palestine, the issue of the medicaid crisis, the international law that has been violated in terms of questions are also rented into but also in terms of international convention. is no longer able to be sure to be to, to be put in the back burner or shy and away from in the sense the genius of the bottom. now for many people, for many countries, just thinking about how they go forward on this female, how important was historical context to south africa's case what other

themselves? this was by company and i think the base mission and myself, i think i'm in the performance of the hand yesterday. a significant impact the best for this is a visa sign. and what is the uh, the perspective of the is to the city, is that those the story? all gas up in the last 3 months? um yeah, that one. the 1st thing it'd be in a way that goes beyond the, the end of the station and the days, the hiring fast, the details of the somebody that has to be fixed in the, on the bus and hasn't gotten the last 3 months. and i bought a company in my own business matter in a way that the sauce going into not others that we have had in the media. the assist me in the west. and it was the one that has the policy to

subdivide submission. the organization that he uses it is the idea that this is volumes outside of this. this isn't a back, i would assume a major image opposing is, of course, so on the bottom and close to that, we saw this so that i think it has insisted on the conflicts and the products as well. if you book your vacation fixed is you did 66 years of operation. so that is all the big infected on the bus that he has. 16 years of seeds on gaza, at least for me to august the course. and maybe also on guess once you realize that, because a lot of times you come home on you, you've been to this is a student that is on the this is the dynamics. we multiply the biases and

back in with the most amazing guys. uh uh, something from the ongoing and you know, the information from the ongoing denial, the like the doors that so what do we saw in the media and why it was what additions and the same us? no, i'm interested in the car stop. i'll take a few minutes, just look at expedius was the one who was the higher on the table. and the only mention that is why so that i think i mentioned that it's all my. secondly, the dismissal don't want to in much for the media and the t minus about all the i'd be suggesting that this is the, the many scores. and you want to access one owners of genocide as, as middle school, but at least this. so this is one of dismiss my money coming davis and the guy showing that i don't pass away in a compelling way in a legal document that there is

a strong case for me to come back on because this is the magic mad to the is it because also this the, this is the money because because in order to enable this business going to us is that just as i said, genocide be completely not endorsing media. the genocidal statement as on his side of the slide by the is a, is this they have been embarrassed usually by the a team or us using actually helps us. there's other statements. my business statements have been a few days before the i c j a hearing yesterday. so that's also john by the fact that us all the kind of up in pages or so or so on. i make some sickness of statement is why this is all is a policy makers are originals and public opinion makers actually do this either. and unfortunately it is most of the sort of the as quickly it's name a the yeah,

the, the last slide the is this, the positive is there. so i think i should know there's actually a bonus. you know, the trees. there's a comprehensive story. the whole next question all does what a um, let's suppose for a moment with the court does issue a provisional load against israel. and how do you think that order would differ from the one that the court issued to russia? what would it be more carefully wooded constructed, of course, russia ignore the order, but that, that, that the, that the court issued against it, exposing the limits of occult powers. again, i think that the focus on, i mean if we go, if we go, when we look at the, the,

the fact that the palestinians have been denied the opportunity in much of the western media and much of the coverage of this issue. and then that you know, that sort of denial of an access to the narrative or denial of that narrative as it is you know, among western countries the united states, etc, to even hear the palestinian narrative to even, to even recognize the wider context as opposed to just focusing on individual incidents that i think we have to return to the symbolic nature, as i mentioned by both, both previous and both guess previously here in the symbolic nature of south africa with it's more of the moral force of south africa being the countries to actually present this and to present this complaint at the i c, j is incredibly powerful. and in addition, in addition,

the idea that the world court doesn't have the, you know, the enforcement mechanism or that it might be, it might be ignored. i mean that's, you know, that's part of the parcel of this whole exercise. i mean, remember in 2004, the same body issued and overwhelming. overwhelmingly. so your decision on the fact that there is rarely the government built a wall in the west bank that was under a different procedure and a different you know, it wasn't under the genocide convention, it was an advisory opinion, but that opinion was largely ignored. even up to the point of the fact where the is rarely judge these rarely a point to judge. so this proceeding with that time was the presence of these rarely supreme court. our own box basically wrote an opinion saying, well, we interpret international law differently in response to the wall case and we find that the wall is legal. i don't think you're going to see that level of kind of a,

you know, something is real. somebody gets nose at anything that the i c j does, particularly because of the charge of genocide. so i think symbolically, it's so important that the focus, right? and also it's, you know, an actual case on the merits is going to take many, many years. so the focus on any type of action here is important for sure, but i think it, it doesn't tell the whole story of the symbolic nature of this in the fact that there couldn't be actual consequences going forward. we would actually stop the bombardment i have, but i don't have many hopes about the solution. please come back on anything that, that you had. what a and need saying that, but i want to ask you about how this is being played in, in south africa itself. for people the i'm making of, of what their country is doing at the i c j. ok. so i think on,

on the hall this is actually having an impact on the domestic public opinion is really very interesting because you all sing on social media. yes. is that those social media activists and commentators who are trying to discredit south africa to say that, oh, so that's because taking a this case to the i c j. but really, domestically they have failed this, the significant public in terms of the lack of providing a bit to a bit of domestic environment. the politics have been caught up in its own challenges of social justice struggles, and you have to bring to the, to the international court of justice and demanding for this kind of accountability . and to stop what they say, what they see in terms of the application. so there's a bit of that kind of push, conduct us by goes with bill and especially within the broader social media space that they can that, that they've vent that and go that this is basically a application that's being done with. there's

a level of morality and legitimacy and that, so that's because whole uh, you know, shining the lights on something very important. and as my 2 colleagues upset, bringing it in the context of the legitimacy and the model and the ethical context of it. but domestically they feel that they're those are feel the certificate in the government. in particular. the amc government is not doing this it, i don't think you've got enough start understanding that these are, these are, these are also questions that have been raised in terms of how this will pay off in the election. i think from what i would gather, there's a sense of pride right now. and so that's the co amongst of different quotes is up to so that you can public to say that we owe. and the sense that's advocate would not do a control, but the i c, j that the arguments may be a bit more skipped to them for granted. but the way the arguments were presented, the, the, the, the weight was carefully crafted. and the kind of a application that was put forward, and of course the legal team making that the statements yesterday in terms of the application itself. i think on social media as well. and of course,

in different domestic media space, as you're beginning to see a sense of pride that we never saw because it also the domestic politics have been really caught up in different challenges. just because if that's, but if i just made a minute to search for this property is right with ties against us, it's just to say that i think it's a very interesting point that was raised about the moral authority of said africa. because for us that because also been challenged to but once it's more of authority and it's voice an agency in international relations, constantly going back to the does some of the things we've lost that authority. and i think this is important that you see it there. and the last point to make here is, i think, what's that because case is also done, is the persecution doesn't help any particular context. and i think it's challenging also the international institutions and the way they operate. and even if the i c j does not have the mandate to whatever decision it makes to carried out, i think it's also raising how international institutions are also facing their own

kind of a beauty in terms of increment to their decisions. maybe, how do you think south africa play that it's case the argument that it made on? i know because i, i so you, you'll, you'll, to be cold and treat same on x, u, x is on x. you were particularly impressed with the arguments put forward by the irish lawyer. believe me, girl, a representing south africa once you the needs of what the present to in the court was the very complaint the case if that ever has been why for issuing the missiles because she saw it as usual. good menacingly at how urgent and how the situation is and what the consequences for not visually prism is would it be on the one now the she also sort of is a long because of just buying because it says that basically

mandates the cold in in action obviously the message and sure issues were some, as was because when the pot from the appliances phones and that will pull the code fully, they just the machine because on with undermine the integrity of international law . so the main issues that we have faced in the last 3 months is of this is the policy off many apologize for that. that was the name of the us, of the your invitation to a is there a cost that goes out compared to their, of course, to innovation in pieces. right. and then they say with 70, very close our question. i'm running out of time. it shows the issue of the users, it goes to not every single state the, just the prevention, the bit of

a myself as a guy. and so the issue for this job to prevent a job, what is it, how much of this is peer to holding? israel to account in front of the world for its actions in gaza. will that in itself have an effect on global opinion regardless of what b i c, j decides in this case with south africa? is it already a case of mission accomplished? to a large degree re to large to gary the large degree? yes. because i think what we've seen, especially if i'm speaking from the united states and what have we seen? we've seen spokes people for the government and the secretary of state come out and say this is merit because we think this is on helpful. this is a baseless case, and the fact that the united states and powerful actors were supporting israel and the israelis themselves can just dismiss this out of hand. has been an amazing step . an amazing event to actually witness because, you know, we're used to this type of dismissive coverage. we're used to the united states

providing is what it would cover in the unit you at a security council to the point where people, you know, come repeatedly raised this question of how useful is the international system if it can be short circuited by one powerful actor. and acting to protect a uh, you know, a major out and we've seen that that has been subject to real scrutiny. and there, you know, in a way that have, you know, hasn't happened before where it's just been kind of dismissive, the posting in claims and palestinians complaints about what have they, what these ratings have been doing. and the dangerous nature of it and the, the legal nature of it having been dismissed out of hand. now that's actually being these claims are actually being verbs and taken seriously in the world is paying attention. so i think this has been at any exceedingly important and exceedingly important series of circumstances in an impact to actually witness. as i said at the beginning of the program,

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