It’s funny that even zizek just parrots the culture war talking points on this topic, just dressed up and preceded by some wandering notions about Truth. There’s almost nothing in here I haven’t seen condensed into a twitter screed
I'm not even dismissing the claims. Many of them are valid points. It's just an interesting development. Zizek did not do that 5-10y ago. I would think that he could add a bit more value to the discussion
Is that not the exact type of Notion that is causing the issue here? The idea of being able to 'discuss' what comprises 'true' and 'false' is the foundation of the system of lies that zizek is denouncing here. The reality is that despite what post-modernists would have you believe, unlike most things in life, true and false are diametrically oppositional.
What more would you like him to explain? There is not much discussion to be made about the denial of reality.
It's hard to expand a discussion when the discussion should never have been a necessary one in the first place.
I also am curious what new brave territory this discussion should delve into. Considering this very basic point is still being actively denied by all western governments.
The intellectual elite? You couldn’t have said it better. ;) He’s another neo-zio bubashwab, shame to all Slovene and Yugoslav communists. He’s a Trumpeteer ;)))
Unfortunately the Palestinian hopes since the 1940s has been the elimination of Israel and the reversal of the Nakba. There’s a reason the Left wing of Israeli politics collapsed after selling the idea of a deal so hard in the 90s and 00s.
16. Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.
17. Hamas rejects the persecution of any human being or the undermining of his or her rights on nationalist, religious or sectarian grounds. Hamas is of the view that the Jewish problem, anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage. The Zionist movement, which was able with the help of Western powers to occupy Palestine, is the most dangerous form of settlement occupation which has already disappeared from much of the world and must disappear from Palestine.
Israel 2023-2024
Netanyahu's repeated statements (and current genocidal tactics) as recently as This Month: Using the term Amalek which is used to describe those who need to be wiped from the face of the earth. If you read South Africa's application regarding the very real threat of genocide, you will know that more than a few Israeli leaders are parroting the same outcome.
I love people who act as if this whole conflict started in about 2010. The Palestinians have been trying to eliminate Israel since the 1940s, since well before Gaza and the West Bank were ever occupied. Was there some amazing peace process hope on the Palestinian side in the 1960s and 1970s? No, this was reaching the height of their armed struggle phase, in fact.
Because some terrorist organization changes their slogan or charter to appeal to useful idiots the world over doesn't mean the basic aim is not the same. And Netanyahu and his government is a clear reaction to the wounds that the Palestinians inflicted on the Left wingers who went out on a limb for the peace process. Don't think there's some magic government that's not Netanyahu coming in that's going to be starry eyed about what great partners the Palestinians are for peace.
Your post is based on White Supremacism. The idea that European, or Europeanized settlers have a right to displace non-European peoples. And if those non-European peoples fight back or defend themselves in any way - they are "terrorists." This is White Supremacism at its purest.
The Arabs and Palestinians have tried and failed to eliminate Israel multiple times now. They are clearly genocidal in their intent. Palestinians have been anngry and aggrieved about the foundation of Israel for 100 years, and it becomes immaterial now, whether they deny any historical connection of Jews to Israel as you seem to is also immaterial. Israel is a fact on the ground, and the Palestinians are extremely late now with accepting it and coming to some kind of status quo with it.
What you call "Israel" is an Apartheid State. Since there are equal numbers of Jews and Muslims in the Holy Land - about 7.5 million each - the only way you can have a "Jewish State" is by Apartheid and Genocide. In the end, that's not a viable proposition.
Is it not true that most israeli areas have been in its ownership for 50+ years now? If so, they are not displacing anyone, in fact they are the ones being displaced. And whereas it is possible that the state of Israel should never have been set up, to then say that those who now live there are settlers (apart from a small group of fanatics who are) is untrue. In addition, Hamas, and its ilk are not considered terrorists because they are ‘defending themselves’ - that would be attacking military targets etc, they are considered terrorists for actions whose purposes to inspire terror, attacking civilian targets suicide bombs in civilian areas and other such activities.
Most of them were burned by US supplied Apache helicopters on the Hannibal Directive, which mandates the IDF to kill Jews rather than allow them to become prisoners of Palestinian forces. Even the Israeli media admits this.
Obvious facts like this don’t register with these people. Filled as they are with hatred, fury and an erotic pleasure in mass slaughter, their “feelings” are all they care about.
Jackson Hinkle was one of the only western voices brave enough to speak the truth in the immediate aftermath of oct 7. Without him many - like you - would still be fooled today
This post is a good reminder of why Zizek is highly overrated as a public intellectual. It was neither a brave nor a true post. Rather, it ignored the numerous wars the Palestinians started against Israel and the genocidal aspirations of Hamas. And as with an Islamic extremists, Hamas fully intends to export its terror and fanatical to the West. Only someone as vapid as Zizek could write about October 7 while ignoring the brutal and obvious reality of Hamas.
The truth is that we once enjoyed a spirituality that was not a religion. We are told, nay, it is actually beaten into our heads that such was barbaric, primitive and wrong. However, it was the onset of religion, of this abrahamic ascendency that invented the religious war.
Truly, this has now become pathological, for religion to justify war even to atheists.
Socrates famously said that the purpose of philosophy is to convince one that the mass of humanity has utterly lost its mind.
You made a grievous error in your partial quote from Mark Regev, when you implied that none of the burned bodies were Israelis. Regev did not say that it turned out that the burned bodies were Hamas. He said that it turned out the 200 of the 1,400 were Hamas. 1,200 were Israelis.
Note that as recently as 2013 when Donald Sasson wrote the following review of Shlomo Sand's "The Invention of the Land of Israel" he is speaking of Israeli officials being tried at the ICC in figurative terms. In that time, Israeli officials have appeared at the ICJ, Swiss police are still seriously a request for an arrest warrant request made against President Herzog when he appeared at Davos, and the clearly biased and compromised ICC prosecutor Karim Khan is under pressure to get his finger out and actually prosecute the war crimes that occurring the glaring light of day. This pressure will only increase if the ICJ issues an injunction against Tel Aviv and if the case brought against the Biden gains traction.
"The "Land of Israel" is barely mentioned in the Old Testament: the more common expression is the Land of Canaan. When it is mentioned, it does not include Jerusalem, Hebron, or Bethlehem. Biblical "Israel" is only northern Israel (Samaria) and there never was a united kingdom including both ancient Judea and Samaria.
Even had such a kingdom ever existed and been promised by God to the Jews, it is hardly a clinching argument for claiming statehood after more than 2,000 years. It is an irony of history that so many past Zionists, most of whom were secular Jews, often socialist, used religious arguments to buttress their case. Besides, the biblical account makes it quite clear (insofar as such accounts are ever clear) that the Jews, led by Moses and then by Joshua, were colonisers themselves and were commanded by God to exterminate "anything that breathes". "Completely destroy them – the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites – as the Lord your God has commanded you." Imagine if the Amorites came back and claimed their ancient land. If they did, this is what Deuteronomy 20 has to say: "Put to the sword all the men ... As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else ... you may take these as plunder for yourselves." Today, such an injunction would take you straight to the international criminal court."
THE LEGAL CASE AGAINST JOE BIDEN FOR ENABLING ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE AGAINST GAZA
"We had an amicus brief go into our case in the U.S. proceedings, our case against Biden, by 77 human rights organizations, bar associations, international legal organizations that are committed to ensuring that the best of international law, the best of those principles, apply equally for the protection of all. And that brief warned about the real risk to the international legal order, and to humanity, if the United States continues down the course of action that it’s on, of fueling, rather than ending, a genocide.
It spoke about the fact that there would be a complete erosion of rights. And, as a Palestinian human rights defender that some of us know, Raji Sourani often says, “We either have the rule of law or the rule of the jungle.” And I think we are at that moment.
What was also important, though, about that amicus brief is it put in context how we got to this place that is a breaking point, and that it went back to the post-9/11 so-called “war on terror.” The United States’s embrace of torture regimes. embrace of so-called “targeted killings,” embrace of a global battlefield where it could bomb and shoot anyone who they considered a, quote, “terrorist,” with impunity and without explanation. Or where they can have a preventive, so-called “preventive” war against Iraq. A war by choice that led to a horrifying occupation with tremendously cruel and long lasting impacts for the Iraqi population and their country.
This is the context that we need to see to understand why a case at the International Court of Justice between South Africa and Israel is about much more than just the outcome in a judgment. It’s really about what kind of world we want to have, and is it going to be one where some powers have to comply with the law while punishing others who don’t. Or will it be a moment where the law will equally protect and hold the powerful to account?
Impunity breeds repetition and recurrence, and what we’ve seen from Israel with its military assaults on Gaza — in 2009, in 2012, in 2014, in 2018, in 2021 — is that each military assault they’ve gotten farther, been even more brutal, with more destruction, more death, and they’ve never had to pay a cost. And that is why, at this moment, we have at least 23,000 Palestinians who’ve been killed, 1.9 million who’ve been displaced, and so much of the infrastructure, including homes, destroyed in Gaza.
So, international law really needs, at this moment, to be given effect, or else we are in a point of a true lawlessness, and it will extend far beyond the occupied Palestinian territory in Israel, or even far beyond what the United States has done in black sites it over the years of the War on Terror. It really will be a lawlessness that will be global.
And I think when we see so much risk of the end of democracy, as we’ve been experiencing these last five, ten years, it’s really quite a concerning moment. A scary moment."
The International Criminal Court must intervene to deter potential genocide in Gaza
In an open letter published on 19 October 2023, over a 100 genocide scholars, Palestinian and international civil society organisations call on Prosecutor Khan to issue arrest warrants, investigate Israeli crimes and intervene to deter incitement to commit genocide in Gaza.
Open letter to the Assembly of State Parties regarding the ICC Office of the Prosecutor’s engagement with the Situation in Palestine
we demand the Assembly of State Parties to:
• Provide adequate political and financial support to the Court, ensure that the Prosecutor disburses resources on the basis of investigative needs as opposed to politically-motivated prioritization, and urge it to expedite its investigation into the Situation in Palestine.
• Investigate the adherence of the Prosecutor’s Office to ICSC Standards of Conduct, particularly in relation to impartiality, and non-discrimination.
• Investigate the conduct of the current prosecutor of the international criminal court, Karim Khan, and take appropriate measures in accordance with the mandate of the Assembly derived from Article 112 of the Rome Statute.
The truth about Gaza is that until the current residents are relocated, there won’t ever be peace. More people know this to be true than are willing to say it. A Palestinian state (Gaza and/or West Bank) is both practically unworkable and morally outrageous.
Uh, because they're actually from there and not recent immigrants (unlike the Israelis). Makes more sense to move out the recent arrivals than the ones who've always been there.
I’m not talking about what “makes more sense” as if all the parties were going to sit down at a table and work this out reasonably. I’m talking about forcibly moving people against their will because they can’t stop engaging in religiously-motivated violence.
Where do you get your information? The electronic intifada? Who don’t you go to Israel and see the burnt remains of the kibbutzim attacked by savages before your spread this shit.
Why all the bullshit about truth-seeking, when all you’re seeking is every Hamas and Israeli leftist lie you can use to demonize Israel and Jews? This somehow makes you original? You live in an academic’s universe far removed from our reality here in Israel. If you actually gave a damn about truth, you would come see Kibbutz Beeri and Aza with your own eyes, instead of spouting bold lies fed by your fellow terror apologists. Sad, but all too predictable. And cowardly as hell.
When Hamas and hundreds of Gazans attacked their neighbors (Israeli female soldiers and socialists and pacifists) they were not saying to themselves hey this is because of all the bad things Israel did to us and we can maybe use this to get a Palestinian state (which they already have in Gaza, Israel having left in 2005). They thought this is the Al Aqsa Offensive where we will retake the Al Aqsa mosque (in Jerusalem) and free it from the infidels (Israelis) who have occupied it. And the Gazans are taught since birth that the Nazis and Hitler got it right and that Jews and Israelis cause every war (including both world wars) and that Jews are "spawn of monkeys". In other words the Gazans want a genocide.
Cute essay žiž. Floating in fantasy and preconceived notions which barely paper over the simultaneous awareness/ignorance of the fanatical hatred that is the core of the so-called Palestinian movement.
One asks: why is the Žiž supportive of the most fanatically right-wing political movement that exists on this planet? I thought he was a devout leftist? Did the Žiž buy into the horse and monkey show the murderous Islamists put on? Or is he content to be mark of the con game like so many others ?
"Barghouti is effectively perceived by millions as the Palestinian Mandela"
A simple google search will reveal the true nature of the terrorist Barghouti. Mr. Zizek is disingenuous and provides no solutions other than "Palestinians should have a state". Israelis also agree, but the question is not the state, but the nature of the state and mentality of Palestinians towards their own and towards the Israelis as their permanent neighbours.
In this case we see the media carry the message and the consequence- Israel lied Palestinians died. Often we don’t see, Washington lied Falujaians died. Or it’s obscured, Washington lied, East Timor, Nicaragua, Haiti died. Why postmodernist analysis when the psychos own the media and the white settler tells the story?
It’s funny that even zizek just parrots the culture war talking points on this topic, just dressed up and preceded by some wandering notions about Truth. There’s almost nothing in here I haven’t seen condensed into a twitter screed
If the psychoanalyst tells this to his patient too early, the patient will dismiss it as irrelevant.
I'm not even dismissing the claims. Many of them are valid points. It's just an interesting development. Zizek did not do that 5-10y ago. I would think that he could add a bit more value to the discussion
Is that not the exact type of Notion that is causing the issue here? The idea of being able to 'discuss' what comprises 'true' and 'false' is the foundation of the system of lies that zizek is denouncing here. The reality is that despite what post-modernists would have you believe, unlike most things in life, true and false are diametrically oppositional.
What more would you like him to explain? There is not much discussion to be made about the denial of reality.
It's hard to expand a discussion when the discussion should never have been a necessary one in the first place.
I also am curious what new brave territory this discussion should delve into. Considering this very basic point is still being actively denied by all western governments.
Sure... We are all waiting for your brilliant insights...
The courage and truth that I’ve been waiting to see from the intellectual elite! Vive Zizek, a scholar of integrity and courage!
The intellectual elite? You couldn’t have said it better. ;) He’s another neo-zio bubashwab, shame to all Slovene and Yugoslav communists. He’s a Trumpeteer ;)))
Unfortunately the Palestinian hopes since the 1940s has been the elimination of Israel and the reversal of the Nakba. There’s a reason the Left wing of Israeli politics collapsed after selling the idea of a deal so hard in the 90s and 00s.
Let's look at the facts:
Case in point - Hamas Charter of 2017
16. Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.
17. Hamas rejects the persecution of any human being or the undermining of his or her rights on nationalist, religious or sectarian grounds. Hamas is of the view that the Jewish problem, anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage. The Zionist movement, which was able with the help of Western powers to occupy Palestine, is the most dangerous form of settlement occupation which has already disappeared from much of the world and must disappear from Palestine.
Israel 2023-2024
Netanyahu's repeated statements (and current genocidal tactics) as recently as This Month: Using the term Amalek which is used to describe those who need to be wiped from the face of the earth. If you read South Africa's application regarding the very real threat of genocide, you will know that more than a few Israeli leaders are parroting the same outcome.
I love people who act as if this whole conflict started in about 2010. The Palestinians have been trying to eliminate Israel since the 1940s, since well before Gaza and the West Bank were ever occupied. Was there some amazing peace process hope on the Palestinian side in the 1960s and 1970s? No, this was reaching the height of their armed struggle phase, in fact.
Because some terrorist organization changes their slogan or charter to appeal to useful idiots the world over doesn't mean the basic aim is not the same. And Netanyahu and his government is a clear reaction to the wounds that the Palestinians inflicted on the Left wingers who went out on a limb for the peace process. Don't think there's some magic government that's not Netanyahu coming in that's going to be starry eyed about what great partners the Palestinians are for peace.
Your post is based on White Supremacism. The idea that European, or Europeanized settlers have a right to displace non-European peoples. And if those non-European peoples fight back or defend themselves in any way - they are "terrorists." This is White Supremacism at its purest.
The Arabs and Palestinians have tried and failed to eliminate Israel multiple times now. They are clearly genocidal in their intent. Palestinians have been anngry and aggrieved about the foundation of Israel for 100 years, and it becomes immaterial now, whether they deny any historical connection of Jews to Israel as you seem to is also immaterial. Israel is a fact on the ground, and the Palestinians are extremely late now with accepting it and coming to some kind of status quo with it.
What you call "Israel" is an Apartheid State. Since there are equal numbers of Jews and Muslims in the Holy Land - about 7.5 million each - the only way you can have a "Jewish State" is by Apartheid and Genocide. In the end, that's not a viable proposition.
Is it not true that most israeli areas have been in its ownership for 50+ years now? If so, they are not displacing anyone, in fact they are the ones being displaced. And whereas it is possible that the state of Israel should never have been set up, to then say that those who now live there are settlers (apart from a small group of fanatics who are) is untrue. In addition, Hamas, and its ilk are not considered terrorists because they are ‘defending themselves’ - that would be attacking military targets etc, they are considered terrorists for actions whose purposes to inspire terror, attacking civilian targets suicide bombs in civilian areas and other such activities.
Muted. Blocked.
Coward
Mute. Block.
More pro-genocide propaganda
Have you been drinking the Jackson Hinkle kool-aid? Jewish bodies were burnt on October seventh.
Looking forward to the Zizek holohoax post next, I guess.
Most of them were burned by US supplied Apache helicopters on the Hannibal Directive, which mandates the IDF to kill Jews rather than allow them to become prisoners of Palestinian forces. Even the Israeli media admits this.
Nope. That’s the way you choose to whitewash Hamas savagery. You a bit squeamish? .
Yeah. Fact check false.
Please tell me how the Israeli Apache helicopters killed the Bibas children and paraded with their coffins in a sick spectacle.
Obvious facts like this don’t register with these people. Filled as they are with hatred, fury and an erotic pleasure in mass slaughter, their “feelings” are all they care about.
Jackson Hinkle was one of the only western voices brave enough to speak the truth in the immediate aftermath of oct 7. Without him many - like you - would still be fooled today
Lol. He celebrated the death of the Bibas kids.
This post is a good reminder of why Zizek is highly overrated as a public intellectual. It was neither a brave nor a true post. Rather, it ignored the numerous wars the Palestinians started against Israel and the genocidal aspirations of Hamas. And as with an Islamic extremists, Hamas fully intends to export its terror and fanatical to the West. Only someone as vapid as Zizek could write about October 7 while ignoring the brutal and obvious reality of Hamas.
The truth is that we once enjoyed a spirituality that was not a religion. We are told, nay, it is actually beaten into our heads that such was barbaric, primitive and wrong. However, it was the onset of religion, of this abrahamic ascendency that invented the religious war.
Truly, this has now become pathological, for religion to justify war even to atheists.
Socrates famously said that the purpose of philosophy is to convince one that the mass of humanity has utterly lost its mind.
Still true today.
“Socrates famously said that the purpose of philosophy is to convince one that the mass of humanity has utterly lost its mind.
Still true today.” 🎯
You made a grievous error in your partial quote from Mark Regev, when you implied that none of the burned bodies were Israelis. Regev did not say that it turned out that the burned bodies were Hamas. He said that it turned out the 200 of the 1,400 were Hamas. 1,200 were Israelis.
Of course he lied. That’s all he’s got. Lies.
Note that as recently as 2013 when Donald Sasson wrote the following review of Shlomo Sand's "The Invention of the Land of Israel" he is speaking of Israeli officials being tried at the ICC in figurative terms. In that time, Israeli officials have appeared at the ICJ, Swiss police are still seriously a request for an arrest warrant request made against President Herzog when he appeared at Davos, and the clearly biased and compromised ICC prosecutor Karim Khan is under pressure to get his finger out and actually prosecute the war crimes that occurring the glaring light of day. This pressure will only increase if the ICJ issues an injunction against Tel Aviv and if the case brought against the Biden gains traction.
"The "Land of Israel" is barely mentioned in the Old Testament: the more common expression is the Land of Canaan. When it is mentioned, it does not include Jerusalem, Hebron, or Bethlehem. Biblical "Israel" is only northern Israel (Samaria) and there never was a united kingdom including both ancient Judea and Samaria.
Even had such a kingdom ever existed and been promised by God to the Jews, it is hardly a clinching argument for claiming statehood after more than 2,000 years. It is an irony of history that so many past Zionists, most of whom were secular Jews, often socialist, used religious arguments to buttress their case. Besides, the biblical account makes it quite clear (insofar as such accounts are ever clear) that the Jews, led by Moses and then by Joshua, were colonisers themselves and were commanded by God to exterminate "anything that breathes". "Completely destroy them – the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites – as the Lord your God has commanded you." Imagine if the Amorites came back and claimed their ancient land. If they did, this is what Deuteronomy 20 has to say: "Put to the sword all the men ... As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else ... you may take these as plunder for yourselves." Today, such an injunction would take you straight to the international criminal court."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/apr/18/invention-land-israel-shlomo-sand
THE LEGAL CASE AGAINST JOE BIDEN FOR ENABLING ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE AGAINST GAZA
"We had an amicus brief go into our case in the U.S. proceedings, our case against Biden, by 77 human rights organizations, bar associations, international legal organizations that are committed to ensuring that the best of international law, the best of those principles, apply equally for the protection of all. And that brief warned about the real risk to the international legal order, and to humanity, if the United States continues down the course of action that it’s on, of fueling, rather than ending, a genocide.
It spoke about the fact that there would be a complete erosion of rights. And, as a Palestinian human rights defender that some of us know, Raji Sourani often says, “We either have the rule of law or the rule of the jungle.” And I think we are at that moment.
What was also important, though, about that amicus brief is it put in context how we got to this place that is a breaking point, and that it went back to the post-9/11 so-called “war on terror.” The United States’s embrace of torture regimes. embrace of so-called “targeted killings,” embrace of a global battlefield where it could bomb and shoot anyone who they considered a, quote, “terrorist,” with impunity and without explanation. Or where they can have a preventive, so-called “preventive” war against Iraq. A war by choice that led to a horrifying occupation with tremendously cruel and long lasting impacts for the Iraqi population and their country.
This is the context that we need to see to understand why a case at the International Court of Justice between South Africa and Israel is about much more than just the outcome in a judgment. It’s really about what kind of world we want to have, and is it going to be one where some powers have to comply with the law while punishing others who don’t. Or will it be a moment where the law will equally protect and hold the powerful to account?
Impunity breeds repetition and recurrence, and what we’ve seen from Israel with its military assaults on Gaza — in 2009, in 2012, in 2014, in 2018, in 2021 — is that each military assault they’ve gotten farther, been even more brutal, with more destruction, more death, and they’ve never had to pay a cost. And that is why, at this moment, we have at least 23,000 Palestinians who’ve been killed, 1.9 million who’ve been displaced, and so much of the infrastructure, including homes, destroyed in Gaza.
So, international law really needs, at this moment, to be given effect, or else we are in a point of a true lawlessness, and it will extend far beyond the occupied Palestinian territory in Israel, or even far beyond what the United States has done in black sites it over the years of the War on Terror. It really will be a lawlessness that will be global.
And I think when we see so much risk of the end of democracy, as we’ve been experiencing these last five, ten years, it’s really quite a concerning moment. A scary moment."
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/17/intercepted-gaza-israel-genocide-icj/
The Genocide of the Palestinian People: An International Law and Human Rights Perspective
https://ccrjustice.org/genocide-palestinian-people-international-law-and-human-rights-perspective
Israel’s Unfolding Crime of Genocide of the Palestinian People & U.S. Failure to Prevent and Complicity in Genocide
Emergency Legal Briefing Paper
https://ccrjustice.org/israel-s-unfolding-crime-genocide-palestinian-people-us-failure-prevent-and-complicity-genocide
The International Criminal Court must intervene to deter potential genocide in Gaza
In an open letter published on 19 October 2023, over a 100 genocide scholars, Palestinian and international civil society organisations call on Prosecutor Khan to issue arrest warrants, investigate Israeli crimes and intervene to deter incitement to commit genocide in Gaza.
https://www.fidh.org/en/region/north-africa-middle-east/israel-palestine/the-international-criminal-court-must-intervene-to-deter-potential
Open letter to the Assembly of State Parties regarding the ICC Office of the Prosecutor’s engagement with the Situation in Palestine
we demand the Assembly of State Parties to:
• Provide adequate political and financial support to the Court, ensure that the Prosecutor disburses resources on the basis of investigative needs as opposed to politically-motivated prioritization, and urge it to expedite its investigation into the Situation in Palestine.
• Investigate the adherence of the Prosecutor’s Office to ICSC Standards of Conduct, particularly in relation to impartiality, and non-discrimination.
• Investigate the conduct of the current prosecutor of the international criminal court, Karim Khan, and take appropriate measures in accordance with the mandate of the Assembly derived from Article 112 of the Rome Statute.
https://twailr.com/open-letter-to-the-assembly-of-state-parties-regarding-the-otps-engagement-with-situation-in-palestine/
The truth about Gaza is that until the current residents are relocated, there won’t ever be peace. More people know this to be true than are willing to say it. A Palestinian state (Gaza and/or West Bank) is both practically unworkable and morally outrageous.
Uh, because they're actually from there and not recent immigrants (unlike the Israelis). Makes more sense to move out the recent arrivals than the ones who've always been there.
I’m not talking about what “makes more sense” as if all the parties were going to sit down at a table and work this out reasonably. I’m talking about forcibly moving people against their will because they can’t stop engaging in religiously-motivated violence.
https://zorkthehun.substack.com/p/the-jewish-solution
A whole bunch of nothing, with some citations. What happened to Zizek
Where do you get your information? The electronic intifada? Who don’t you go to Israel and see the burnt remains of the kibbutzim attacked by savages before your spread this shit.
Why all the bullshit about truth-seeking, when all you’re seeking is every Hamas and Israeli leftist lie you can use to demonize Israel and Jews? This somehow makes you original? You live in an academic’s universe far removed from our reality here in Israel. If you actually gave a damn about truth, you would come see Kibbutz Beeri and Aza with your own eyes, instead of spouting bold lies fed by your fellow terror apologists. Sad, but all too predictable. And cowardly as hell.
When Hamas and hundreds of Gazans attacked their neighbors (Israeli female soldiers and socialists and pacifists) they were not saying to themselves hey this is because of all the bad things Israel did to us and we can maybe use this to get a Palestinian state (which they already have in Gaza, Israel having left in 2005). They thought this is the Al Aqsa Offensive where we will retake the Al Aqsa mosque (in Jerusalem) and free it from the infidels (Israelis) who have occupied it. And the Gazans are taught since birth that the Nazis and Hitler got it right and that Jews and Israelis cause every war (including both world wars) and that Jews are "spawn of monkeys". In other words the Gazans want a genocide.
Cute essay žiž. Floating in fantasy and preconceived notions which barely paper over the simultaneous awareness/ignorance of the fanatical hatred that is the core of the so-called Palestinian movement.
One asks: why is the Žiž supportive of the most fanatically right-wing political movement that exists on this planet? I thought he was a devout leftist? Did the Žiž buy into the horse and monkey show the murderous Islamists put on? Or is he content to be mark of the con game like so many others ?
"Barghouti is effectively perceived by millions as the Palestinian Mandela"
A simple google search will reveal the true nature of the terrorist Barghouti. Mr. Zizek is disingenuous and provides no solutions other than "Palestinians should have a state". Israelis also agree, but the question is not the state, but the nature of the state and mentality of Palestinians towards their own and towards the Israelis as their permanent neighbours.
In this case we see the media carry the message and the consequence- Israel lied Palestinians died. Often we don’t see, Washington lied Falujaians died. Or it’s obscured, Washington lied, East Timor, Nicaragua, Haiti died. Why postmodernist analysis when the psychos own the media and the white settler tells the story?